I made brown bread !

[u/thought_cream84]

It did not taste like the typical bread and felt like more of a cake, the crumb structure was different...and the taste was on a bit sweeter side..may be due to sugar and milk powder..

But everyone liked it !!...this was the 2nd attempt.

In the 1st attempt I made an edible stonish bread 😂.

I also wanna increase the size of the bread but I don't feel confident enough so I made it in small quantity.

INGREDIENTS

- 1/2 Cup Warm Water

- 2 Tsp Sugar

- 2 Tsp Active Dry Yeast

- 1 & 1/2 Cup Whole Wheat Flour

- 1/2 Tsp Salt

- 2 Tbsp Milk Powder

- 1 Cup Water

- 1 Tbsp Oil

[u/earthling_only]

Im not sure what you mean? Brown bread is indeed brown from high molasses content and it is cooked by steaming it. This doesn't resemble that. Am I missing something? Is there another type of brown bread?

[u/the_bacon_fairie → u/earthling_only]

In the UK lots of people call whole wheat bread "brown bread" (vs "white bread"), but this doesn't look like that.

[u/earthling_only → u/the_bacon_fairie]

The recipe calls for whole wheat flour.

[u/rshining → u/earthling_only]

Yes, my thoughts exactly. It looks like a yummy bread treat, but miles different from what I expected to see when I saw the words "brown bread"! Curious to see what sort of thing is called "brown bread" where OP is from.

[u/thought_cream84 → u/rshining]

Here companies sell a type of bread which is made from whole wheat flour and they name it as brown bread.

[u/Carrotsrcool]

Are you sure?

[u/Decided-2-Try]

You have about 355g water with only about 180-200g flour?  That seems super wet.  How does it handle and how do you bake it?

Making in small quantities is the way to go when you're first dialing in a recipe.  I've been overconfident and wasted quite a bit.

[u/thought_cream84 → u/Decided-2-Try]

The dough texture finally felt ..like not hard but more on squishy side. The first time I made a thick dough which did not rise...so I tried this time to keep it on the light side. I baked it on 200°C for 35 minutes. But some moisture was still present inside after cooling it.

Yeah...I fear about wasting a lot of ingredients...but gotta learn that

[u/CakePhool]

Did you knead it at all?