Millet Bread- Not Viable Bread

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Hello loyal follower(s)

    Well, again the title of this blog has come into play.  Remember the shaver that I bought with the built-in charger.  I was impressed that it was the same size and shape as my old shaver.  What I did not notice until yesterday while shaving that the trimmer that used to be built-in has been removed. Sort of shows you that I shave infrequently.  Anyway, when all you can see is the packaging of a product with all the writing in two languages, it is not always clear what you are buying.

On a similar note while ordering stuff from Bob’s Red Mill (a good source for speciality grains) I ordered Millet ‘Flour instead of Hulled Millet.  Therefore with about seven pounds of this flour, there will be much Millet bread in the future, starting right now.

Quoting from the package: “Millet was originated in China nearly 5000 years ago, making it one of he earliest cultivated grains. Millet Flour is nutritious ------ with a distinctive sweet flavor.  It lends a delicate cake like crumb to your bake goods”.

Well lets find out:

Te dough was stiff and easy to work with. The Millet flour mad up about 33% of the flour.  At this point it was the start of the first fermentation ( 18 hours).

Voilà, The  end of the eighteen hour fermentation it looks good.

Formed two loafs at start of second fermentation ( 1.5 to 2 hours)

Ready for the oven on the parchment paper.

At the start of the heat.

After thirty-five minutes it was time for the aluminum foil to prevent further browning.

Loaves looked good and the internal temperature was 200℉.

Most bread recipes follow this sequence.

The  crumb looked good FOR CAKE

but was too gummy .  The crumb also tasted mrre like cake than bead.

The opinion of both Cyndy and myself was that Millet was a poor choice of a flour in bread.  With about seven pounds of the stuff I may have to make cake or maybe cookies and then give them away.

I will give the ingredients used for the above, but DO NOT try to make this bread.

Ingredients: 

5 cups (25 ounces; 700 g ) Bread flour.                  

2 cups Millet flour ( 9 ounces , 250 g)

3 tablespoons Vital Wheat Gluten

1 tablespoon Sea salt

1/2 teaspoon instant dry yeast

1/4 cup Dough Enhancer   (optional)                     

About 2 3/4  cups water 

  

À bientôt,

Mr Nut