A question about a recipe: Pocket Rolls

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added 5 months ago

You can substitute 1 cup malt barley syrup with 3/4 cup molasses

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susan g added 5 months ago

Barley malt has a taste like Sugar Daddy candy. If you use molasses, don't use a strong molasses.

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Cynthia is a trusted source on Bread/Baking.

added 5 months ago

First, barley malt syrup is significantly more dense than molasses. Second, it is about 50% as sweet as sucrose (table sugar), while molasses is 93% as sweet as table sugar. Therefore, molasses is quite a bit sweeter than barley malt syrup - but not quite twice as sweet. Tom's wonderful recipe calls for 2 teaspoons of barley malt syrup; I'd suggest replacing it with 1 1/4 teaspoons of molasses. The yeast also gets an enzymatic boost from barley malt syrup; you can replace that with a pinch (and I mean literally a small pinch) of a pulverized vitamin C tablet.

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Kt4 added 5 months ago

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