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I made a brick

satkins

satkins

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Type of diabetes
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As I've said many times I'm not a baker so this could be all my fault. Today I tried making bread. Here are my ingredients:

80g whole wheat flour
130g oat flour
175g almond flour
30g flax seed meal
30g golden flax seed meal
85g Super 6 grains (chia, whole flax, whole gloden flax, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seed, can't remember the last one).
1 Tbsp yeast (the yeast I have was a bit old so added extra to help)
Water to bloom the yeast and enough to make a dough.

The problem is that it didn't even rise a little bit. I did buy some some new yeast packets to give it a try again maybe Monday. But if anyone has any idea other then bad yeast please let me know before I do this again. It's lot exactly low carb but by my calculations it should have clocked in around 10g per slice (assuming 15 or 16 slices per loaf).

Thanks everyone.
 
I've made the odd loaf before of both white and white with whole wheat before. I've never had a loaf not rise at least a little.

You said it would be dense. I knew it should be based on other lower carb breads. When i say it didn't rise i mean not even a single millimeter. I used water that was at 30c (i used a thermometer). I only had the light on in the oven to warm it.

Should i have put in a teaspoon of sugar to help the yeast?

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I am not sure whether breads with such a high content of non-wheat flours rise with yeast. When I make flaxseed or almond flour 'breads' I add some baking powder. Then again, sometimes yeast just doesn't kick in. My grandma said that when she married her doughs just would not rise any more.
 
Sorry about the baking catastrophe @satkins
when I saw the title, I thought you might be having constipation probs :arghh:
 
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