Punch Down Pumpernickel Bread Dough

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Learn how to punch down the dough after it rises when making pumpernickel bread with expert tips on baking bread in this free recipe video.

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Punch Down Pumpernickel Bread Dough
Hi! My name is Kip and I am here on behalf of Expert Village. Today we are making Pumpernickel Bread. Now our bread has raised and it is time to punch it down and let it raise some more. Okay our bread is now raised enough and what we are going to want to do at this point is we will need to put a little flour on our surface. Take off our cellophane and roll the dough out onto the surface and you are going to want to take each one and just knead this for about a minute each. We are going to want to make sure that our bread is punched down. This is called punching it down. You just knead it for about a minute for each roll, fold it over on itself, punch that down really good and tight and then fold. Works good if you take both the palms of your hand squish it down, fold it back, squish it down like this. This works quite well. Do that with both of your portions of dough and then for the round pan, make this into a round loaf and then place that in the pan. Remove the cellophane from the other one, here it is and do the same thing for it. When you are done, roll it into more of a loaf and place that in this pan. What you are going to do is take both of these and let those raise for about an hour each and put the cellophane back on. See you in an hour.

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Expert: Kip Bradford is the Head Baker for a popular chain of restaurants for more then a decade in Southern California Read More