problems with wholewheat bread in the Panny

Mrs_Flittersnoop

I hadn't tried the vit c thing either until I read about it on here and my loaves started turning into housebricks. I bought a tub of Waitrose own vitamin C tablets which are about the size of a pound coin, but thicker. They are the chewable ones. Unfortunately they contain artificial sweeteners but presumably not very much in one tablet.

I crush one tablet in my pestle and mortar to powder - because I'm a pathetic weakling. Stronger people would probably be able to bash them to bits with a spoon. I just added the powder on top of the flour, added the water etc and left it to do its thing. Oh and I also increased the amount of sugar from 1 teaspoon to 1 dessertspoon, after reading the Panasonic instruction book. Result: a risen loaf.

If I'm making a 50:50 wholemeal or granary loaf I also use the normal 4 hour white loaf setting. Haven't had a problem with that rising but I think they will always be smaller loaves than white, purely because the flour is heavier.

HTH
Mrs F x

minimooch

Got a bag of sainsburys flour in the storecupboard, so going to try that overnight and see.

Ishtar - If that doesn't work, I'll give the white programme a go, I used to get quite successful wholewheat loaves on my old machine doing theat (the pan leavked so couldn't leave it sitting on the wholewhat programme!)

And if those both dont work - will try the vit C, in fact will probvably try it anywau so i dont have to chuck my bags of tesco flour.

Thanks for everyones thoughts, and also glad I'm not just going bonkers :rotfl: