I tried to make the bread this weekend but even with rapid rise yeast and using a warm rise, I couldn't get it to rise as well as the bread in the pic. It was still tastey, just a little heavy. I plan to use fresh bread flour the next time I try this.


So, I mentioned "fresh" bread flour; why? Welllll, I made made a couple more batches of Jerrymrc's Dinner Rolls this weekend too. I used some bread flour I found in the back of my pantry (already went through 1 - 5lb bag of bread flour making these delicious rolls). The bread flour I found had a "best if used by" date of a year ago. Trust me, it makes a difference unless you're protecting it in mylar or something. While the rolls are still good, these too (like the bread) didn't rise well this time and didn't smooth out and were (are) heavy. Not nearly as good my 2 previous double batches I've made.