QUICK! Forgot sugar in bread dough and has not finished first proving!

[giraffeski]

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Don't think it will work - the yeast will probably not activate now, having already been mixed in.

You can try ... but suspect "shite" is probably the right word

It will be flat bread !!!

Think it is too late for it !

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The French bread recipe I use doesn't need sugar, but takes a really long proving time.

You may be able to speed things up a bit by bringing it up to temperature in the microwave, if it hasn't already warmed through.

Or else just eat them at midnight, by which time they will be lovely.

sorry, just read thread properly.

well if anything actually they should taste better - you get a better flavour from long proving than from using sugar.

You don't actually need sugar. I have a recipe for my bread machine that uses only flour, yeast, water and salt and it's fine. Actually, more than fine.

I guess it's the same for hand-baked bread? Could be wrong though.

we rarely use sugar in bread dough - from what it says in our breadmaker book, the sugar mainly affects the crust

I thought the yeast needed the sugar to have a reaction to raise the dough ??

Glad yours worked oK though - maybe the dried yeast has sugar in the mix and it activates with water ?

I'm guessing there are sugars in the flour, it just takes the yeast a bit longer to get them than normal sugar.

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Apparently "modern" easy-blend yeasts don't require sugar to activate them.