Kitchen tip~rising dough

Since we're on the subject of bread....
I found a cool way to help bread dough rise............for smaller batches of dough...like whem you're making about 2 loaves of bread...


By placing the dough in an empty ice cream bucket with a lid!!


It really works quite a bit better than just covering the dough with a tea towel.
The results of my ice cream bucket experiment were quite delicious


60 slices of bread placed in Ziploc bags for later use.

My usual method goes like this:

To help any sort of dough rise turn the oven on real low for a minute then turn off and and put your pan of dough in there. The lukewarm temperature makes the dough rise faster and nicer it seems.

For tammy's fruit basket tip go to http://www.tammysrecipes.com/node/4089