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Seeds-falling-off-bread problem

I'm experiencing a seeds-falling-off-bread problem.

I baked about five loaves yesterday and experimented with some sesame and sunflower seed topping. After the bake, most of the seeds seem to fall off. They taste fine, particularly the nutty toasted flavour of the sunflower seeds.

I kneaded, then left to prove. Then knocked it back. Split the dough into loaf sizes, shaped for the tins, pressed the dough into some seeds and left prove again. After the second rise, I brushed with salted water, and baked.

So how can I get the seeds to stick to the bread a little better ? Should I be glazing with something else, like egg/milk/sugar ?

Darren

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fuggled
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Darren,

I use an egg or egg/milk wash when I bake with seeds, water never seemed to work for me either. Also, I've been told that spreading the seeds on parchment paper, brushing with an egg wash and then very very gently inverting the loaf onto the parchment paper applying a very litle pressure (just enough to get the seeds to imbed themselves into the tops) works well to but I"ve never been "brave" enough to try it.

Good luck, Mary

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Mary

Mary in response to Darren wrote: >

I make a prize-winning challah which is topped with white sesame seeds. I think my seeding system might be safer than the upside down approach.

I make a water and egg wash, strain it and put it in a mister. I mist the loaf very heavily, sprinkle on white sesame seeds and then re-mist the loaf. The seeds stick and toast up very nicely.

Robert

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Combat Lit

Sounds yummy. I too stated to Darren in my post that an egg/water wash is also my preferred method but other posters here in the past have presented the "upside down/pressure" method (one I don't use myself)... Killing 2 birds with one store as it were Mary

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Mary

I normally merely brush with water (or brine for a more crusty loaf) and sprinkle on seeds with a teaspoon almost at the end of the second proving. Slash end-to-end in a tin loaf or diagonally on a cottage-type loaf or bloomer and find the seeds stay on.

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conrad

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