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Making Wonderbread style bread...

I have been baking bread for some time now, and am pretty confortable experimenting with different addtions/modifications to basic recipies.

One thing that I am unable to acheive is bread with a skin-like crust like that on Wonderbread. Food-snobbery aside, my wife likes those, and I like a challenge.

My theory is that I have a plain old gas oven, and that it is not going to be possible to achieve that kind of a bread without an electric convection oven with steam injection and a controlled humidity proofing box (maybe this will get me approved for a new oven :-))

Any ideas on now I can get that kind of a light fluffy mealy flavourless non-nutritional bread at home?

Irax.

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Here's a recipe that's been floating around the internet for a while, it's for bread machine users, but I'm sure you could manage to mix and bake it in your oven. I call it my Fluff Bread...

Rina

------------------------------------------------ Homemade Wonder Bread (ABM)

2 1/2 tsp. active dry yeast 1/4 cup warm water (110ºF.) 1 tbsp. white sugar 4 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup instant potato flakes 1/4 cup powdered milk 2 tsp. salt 1/4 cup white sugar 2 tbsp. butter or margarine 1 cup warm water (110ºF.)

Whisk together the yeast, 1/4 cup warm water and sugar. Allow to sit for 15 minutes.

Add ingredients in the order suggested by your machine's manufacturer, including the yeast mixture. Select the basic and light crust setting.

This recipe yields a 2 lb. loaf.

Comments: A white bread recipe without a strong yeast flavor. Proofing the yeast first eliminates some of the yeast taste from the final product.

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Rina

I think a convection oven with steam injection is the exact opposite of what you need to make a thin, soft crust.

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Vox Humana

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