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What are you doing when you are shaping or forming dough into a loaf or press?

kneading the dough

molding the dough

Shaping dough into a loaf is giving the dough its final form. This is molding the dough. After mixing, you knead to develop gluten and strength, but the act of forming it into a loaf (or into a pan) is shaping, or molding, to create the specific loaf shape. Rolling would flatten or stretch dough for other kinds of pastries, and proofing is the rise that happens after shaping. So the step described—forming the dough into a loaf or press—fits molding.

proofing the dough

rolling the dough

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