Automatic bread machines and the handy Wixon mixes designed for them, have made bread baking easy, convenient, and virtually foolproof. Yet, veteran bread makers may prefer favorite old recipes and traditional methods, while adventuresome bakers enjoy devising a new specialty combination with each loaf.

To ensure delicious, flavorful breads regardless of method, here are five excellent products developed jointly by Wixon and Red Star® Yeast specifically to improve dough. (Easy, kitchen-tested recipes incorporating these blends are found in Wixon’s recipe section.)

Red Star® Dough Conditioner

For use in all automatic bread machines as well as traditional recipes, this specially-formulated mix :

• Provides stronger dough structure
• Encourages yeast activity, and
• Produces soft texture.

The package contains enough conditioner for 15 to 25 loaves.

Red Star® Flavor Enhancer

The combination of eggs and butter flavor, together with other natural ingredients, intensifies bread’s hearty appeal by:

• Adding old-fashioned richness
• Bringing out yeast’s unique taste, and
• Enhancing distinctive flavors of the grains.

The package contains enough enhancer for 15 to 25 loaves.

Red Star® Natural Bread Fortifier

• Fortifies dough with protein, calcium, and B-Vitamins
• Increases bread’s nutritional value, and
• Promotes healthy eating.

The package contains enough fortifier for 15 to 25 loaves.

Red Star® Vital Gluten Blend

Long the “secret ingredient” of professional bakers, gluten perfects the texture of any type of bread, but especially those using hearty, heavy natural grains. Adding gluten also improves results of dough made with all-purpose flour, rather than flour specially formulated for bread-making.

Other benefits of using Vital Gluten Blend include:

• Increased volume of loaf
• Improved texture in specialty and whole-grain breads, and
• Higher level of protein.

Red Star® Quick Bread Baking Powder

Red Star Quick Bread Baking Powder provides the leavening action needed for the heavier textures of dessert breads. It’s ideal for traditional recipes, or use with automatic bread machines with a Quick Bread Cycle.

Improved results include:

• Higher, better-textured loaves,
• Excellent taste, containing no sodium aluminum phosphate, and
• Vigorous double-acting leavening adds height.