Adding malt powder to a conventional brown bread machine recipe

I'm English by birth and miss the 'old fashioned' style Granary bread of my youth. I use a breadmaker and have 'fine-tuned' recipes to produce something approaching the bread I miss: I add small quantities of several types of grains and pumpkin and sunflower seeds.

Now, however, I've purchased a quantity of malt powder in the hope that I can reproduce the malty flavour of 'real' Granary bread.

Question: How much malt powder should I add to my recipe?

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Best Answer

As it's really hard for us here on Seasoned Advice to quantify a memory from your youth, please experiment using the binary empirical method:

start with one spoon ¹
if that's not malty enough for you, double the dose
keep doubling the dose until it's too malty
then go halfway in-between the too low dose and the too high dose (E.G. if 4 is not enough and 8 is too much, take 6)
keep on halving until you get it just right (E.G in the above example: 5, 4.5, 4.25, 4.125, ...)

If you get it just right, dream of childhood memories...

:-)

_{¹ Obviously "spoon" is a non-SI unit and can be a coffee spoon, tea spoon, table spoon or even a ladle depending on the size of the bread and how malty your memory of the Granary bread reallly is...};-)

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How do you add malt powder to bread?

Let your breads rise higher and brown easier! Active enzymes in diastatic malt help yeast grow fully and efficiently throughout the fermentation period, yielding a good, strong rise and great oven-spring. Add only a small amount: 1/2 to 1 teaspoon per 3 cups of flour.

Can you put malt in bread?

If you want to add a touch of natural sweetness to your bread, along with a browner crust and a glossy sheen, malt powder could be the magic ingredient you've been looking for.

What does dry malt powder do for bread?

Diastatic malt powder is the "secret ingredient" savvy bread bakers use to promote a strong rise, great texture, and lovely brown crust. Especially useful when flour does not have barley malt added, as is true for most whole wheat flour and many organic flours.

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