If I shun molasses and sugar, can I still copycat Outback Steakhouse's bread? Outback Steakhouse doesn't unveil the recipe for their bread, but Copycat Version of Outback Steakhouse Bread Recipe lists


  Ingredients
  
  
  3 packages dry yeast
  1 1/2 cups warm water (divided)
  1 tablespoon sugar
  1/2 cup dark molasses
  1 tablespoon salt
  2 tablespoons neutral oil (vegetable or canola)
  2 cups rye flour
  2 1/2 to 3 cups all-purpose flour
  


What happens if I must eschew the sugar and molasses for medical reasons? I don't care if the color changes.
The taste will change. It will not taste sweet at all, so it wouldn't really be a copy cat recipe any more. It will rise slower. Yeast feeds on sugar, so if you omit the sugar it will only feed on the carbs from the flour and hence rise much slower. And it will likely be less dense. In my experience, adding molasses to a dough makes it denser. It may also become too dry. The molasses especially is a large enough ingredient that omitting it will affect the hydration level of the dough.