Needing help with my dough. It does not form a smooth ball no matter how much flour I seem to add. It sticks to one side for the entire kneading cycle. Iām new to this bread machine and bread machines in general. Hereās the recipe Iām using, from my bread machineās manual:
1 1/4 cups water
1/4 cup skim milk powder
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons shortening
2 3/4 cups all purpose/bread flour
1 teaspoon bread machine yeast
I add the ingredients in the order they appear above, as directed. I have used both bread and all purpose flour and run into the same issue. I have made three different loaves and the dough is always too sticky. The first loaf I made, I probably added a full 1/4-1/3 cups of extra (bread) flour, a tablespoon at a time, and it looked the same, but the dough was dense after baking and tasted like flour. The second time, I did not add any extra (bread) flour, and it tasted fine, but I feel like the texture could have been better. This time, I added about 3-4 extra tablespoons of (all-purpose) flour, seeing if the type of flour I used for the recipe changed it, to no avail. Itās resting right now, so I donāt know how this loaf tastes yet.
I donāt want to add too much flour and make a dense dough like the first time. I am using the White Bread setting. I am using active dry yeast instead of bread machine yeast, but that is the only change to the recipe, and all of my loaves have risen fine, so I donāt imagine thatās the issue, but maybe it is? Can someone who is more experienced in bread machines advise on if the recipeās hydration ratio seems off? Should I add less liquid? More flour?
First picture is a little over halfway through the kneading cycle, the second is from the rest cycle after kneading.