Activate Yeast for Rye Bread

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My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make rye bread. Okay, for our first step, we've got our mixer over here and get it ready. Notice I put the whip in here and not the dough hook. We use a dough hook later but we are going to use the whip for right now for this first step. So the first thing I want to do is I grab my first three ingredients which is that cup of warm water, not hot because hot will kill the yeast, our active dry yeast and our sugar. So what we are going to do is I'm actually going to put the water in first. Then I'm going to put the yeast in second and then the sugar. And what goes on here is, the yeast and the warm water will actually start to bloom a little bit and then the sugar is going to act as its food. If it doesn't have anything to eat, it won't work out right. I'm just going to turn this up. You can do this by hand if you wanted but I'm just going to do the mixer to show you the whole way to do it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to mix this up for a few seconds here. Until basically, you see all of the yeast dissolved. And you are going to want to make sure to get your spatula out for this part and scrape all the yeast down off the walls because what will happen is it will all, when you first turn it on the first time it will sling some of it up on the sides. You just want to scrape that down and just get your mixer up and going again. I missed a spot, right there. And you will see what will happen is your mixture in here, it will turn a very milky color, kind of a foamy brown, really light chocolate milk color and what's going on there is you are activating your yeast. You will also get a really, really distinct odor at this point. That way you know that the yeast is working. So, don't be concerned, it's nothing wrong, it's just it's suppose to be brown. So I'm going to let this go for another five seconds or so and then we are going to let it rest for ten minutes. And for that ten minutes we're just going to leave it alone and not do anything with it. We're going to turn the mixer off. So, let's kill our mixer, and let's set our timer, ten minutes. I'll be back in ten minutes and we'll go from there.

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