Bread deflating or baking sunken in with a crater ridge around the top usually means too much liquid or sugar. Try the same recipe by reducing the liquid by 2 tablespoons. If dough appears like pie crust dough, add teaspoon of liquid down the side of the dough and observe. Add another if necessary. Humidity and temperature affect the dough and its behavior Do not dispair if a recipe that has been tried and true suddenly does not "work."
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Bread deflating or baking sunken in with a crater ridge around the top usually means too much liquid or sugar. Try the same recipe by reducing the liquid by 2 tablespoons. If dough appears like pie crust dough, add teaspoon of liquid down the side of the dough and observe. Add another if necessary. Humidity and temperature affect the dough and its behavior Do not dispair if a recipe that has been tried and true suddenly does not "work."