Baking Bread

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Retarded 20% whole wheat

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Was this an extended autolyse or a proper retarded ferment? Either way it looks like it came out well!
These are some mantou buns I made just earlier today. Super simple but I didn't bother to gather the bottoms in so they're not as tight and cute as they could be. Love the texture on these for some reason.

>>8176330
This one was with the yeast. It makes a difference.

Are those buns so fluffy that they float up?

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>>8176337
With yeast
>retarded ferment/rise
Without yeast
>autolyse
Both improve gluten networks, but you're right that there are significant differences.
Goddamn mobile app, reposting

I work for one of the best deli's in my state as a baker/doughmaker, ama

>>8176383
How is the regular plural of English nouns formed? And what sets it apart from the genitive form?

>>8176410
The regular or nominative plural is formed in most nouns by the addition of -s or -es to the end of the word or by more complicated endings where such an addition would be disphonious or precluded due to their language of origin (e.g. oxen). Notably, a number of words ending in -us are pluralized as though 2nd declension Latin, with the use of an -i ending replacing the -us. In most cases both this or the more intuitive -uses ending is also acceptable. A number of loan words (moose most famously, as it comes from an algonquin word) retain their ending even when pluralized.

The genitive case is entirely different in meaning, though similar in appearance, and is generally used to denote ownership. It is usually distinguished from the nominative plural by the use of an apostrophe or "hanging comma" placed in between the word and the letter "s" (e.g. Mom's being genitive singular, Moms being nominative plural). There are of course exceptions, commonly the difference between its (genitive) and it's (contraction meaning it is) that seem to flip the normal rules on their head.
The plural genitive is formed either by the use of the special plural form of the noun followed by the -'s ending or by the placement of the apostrophe AFTER the -s used to pluralize the noun. For example, to say that an item belongs to more than one person, it would be the people's. Here the plural form of the word and normal -'s ending is used. To say that an item belongs to more than one mom, it would be the moms'.
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