Bread not rising enough before baking it kicks in.

Nelliegrace

Try activating the yeast first in tepid water with half a teaspoon of sugar until it is frothing. DH does this in the plastic measuring jug now, putting it somewhere warm. He said it didn’t work, but he was putting it in almost cold water in the very cold breadmaker.
 
He did use my tin of standard dried yeast instead of the fast acting one for breadmakers. 

inspector28

I am sorry that I haveused the wrong forum. It just came up when I googled (DuckDuckGo'd) it
the latest loaf came up a perfect shape, but small. I used a warmer room, warm water, but the same ingredients as last time. I have chaged all the ingredients, one by one.

Nelliegrace

A super demonstration on the temperature of bread dough. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=29PScgqX9WA

thriftwizard

Could this be related somehow to why the new Pannys seem to require a LOT more sugar than the old models? I have been asking Panasonic (via email) why I suddenly need to use a tablespoon of sugar when with my older models a teaspoon, or none at all in the case of the 6-hr French programme, was enough to produce a very satisfactory loaf. No reply has been forthcoming, but I think I'm going to have to go back to making bread by hand after 30+ years of happy bread machine use.

Nelliegrace

Never too old to learn. 
57 years ago, in our school cookery lesson on bread making, Miss Lax taught us to add a teaspoon of sugar to tepid water and fresh yeast, to activate the yeast. 
Apparently that was not correct.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFeXxa_NTk

Perhaps the extra sugar is to caramelise to give a browner crust with a shorter proving and cooking time? @thriftwizard.

annieb64

My bread wasn't rising and then I realised that I had bought the yeast that needs adding to warm water!

Katiehound

That YouTube lesson about sugar & dough rising was fascinating.

i used to make bread very regularly years ago & my rolls were always perfect... but they may well have been left an age to prove. They certainly did not contain masses of sugar.