Oven Made Bread (like Glue In The Middle) Why?

[andykinn]

Hello again, first I would like to thank all the people who replied to my crumpet dilema, unfortunatly I am having a bread dilema now.

I am trying to make bread with the following recipe.

200g doves flour mix (plain)

150g corn flour

9g dried yeast

tsp sugar

tsp salt

200ml water (warm)

3tsp zanthan gum

The bread looks great from the outside, risen lovely good shape nice and light. the problem is when you open the bread up its sticky inside and if you take a lump it rolls into a ball like rubber, I presume I am nearly there but what am I missing.

Please could someone help

many thanks andy

[Takala]

It's not all the way done.

When you bake, before declaring the bread "done", take a plain table knife and poke the bread all the way thru to the bottom and pull the knife back out, and see if the knife is clean or sticky. If it's sticky, put the bread back in the oven for 5 to 10 minutes more, then test again.

Drop the heat in the oven a bit if the bread crust is getting too overdone.

Use a smaller bread loaf pan also helps with this. 8" x 4" or even the mini loaf pan size and make 2 small loaves instead of one big one helps the bread to bake all the way thru.

[andykinn]

Hiya, thanks for the quick reply, thats what I thought but it had been in for an hour and it was the same all the way through, even next to the crust, I made some cornish splits yesterday whitch is basicly the same recipe but adding more suger and replacing the water with milk and they where perfect. but too speet for bread.