So I decided to make bread today. Last time, the dough hardly rose. But this time, lovely, poofy, doubled-in-size dough. Punching the dough down is my favorite part.
Hey, and the loaves rose, too!
Nice crusty bread. White bread on the left, cinnamon swirl on the right. Yum!
Dang! how did you get it to rise so well? Mine never seem to rise well.
I put it in the oven with a pan of very hot water (hot water on lower rack, bread in bowl on top), and I did the same thing with the second rising. It worked really well!