Add Egg White & Seeds to Pumpernickel Bread

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Kip and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. Today we are making pumpernickel bread. Now that our bread has risen for the last time we would apply our egg white and curred seeds. Here is our bread the last time that we have raised it. Now a lot of people will ask me and indicate that they are confused on how to know it is ready or not, they just go by the time. That time can vary because of a lot of factors but typically if you can push into the bread and it does not rebound or rebound slowly and leaves a little dip there that means it has raised enough. If you push in and it springs right back then the bread has not relaxed enough and not raised enough, it has not enough air going in there from the action of the yeast to be ready to go. But this is now ready to go. Now if you don't have a brush for the egg white I have found that a paper towel works just as good. Take the egg white and the paper towel and just gently wipe that across the top of the bread. Be liberal you don't want to have a omelet type things setting on top of the bread when you are finished. You want to make sure you get a nice coating on there so be liberal. You want to be at this point have set your oven to preheat to three-hundred and fifty degrees. I don't recall if I mentioned that earlier if not it does take a long time and this would be fine to just sit there and let your oven heat up properly. Make it looks shiny everywhere. Good! Then take some of the seeds and sprinkle the seeds a lot or a little whatever you prefer these are fairly strong tasting seeds. We already have some in the bread anyways. But it will make it look nice and there we go. Now we would put it in the oven we would start at thirty-five minutes then we would check how they are browning. Put tin foil on top if they are getting if they are brown enough and then back for fifteen minutes more. Preheat your oven to three-hundred and fifty degrees. You also want to make sure that your oven rack is the center position. "