Method of producing a piece of laminated dough, a piece of laminated dough, and a method of baking a piece of laminated dough

A method of producing a piece of laminated dough, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) mixing and kneading flour, water, yeast, gluten, and other materials required for producing a desired type of bread, to make a dough mass,
• (b) causing the dough mass to be formed in a belt-like shape,
• (c) putting fat on the formed dough to sandwich fat layers between dough layers to thereby form a sheet of laminated dough that has a long belt-like shape,
• (d) cutting the sheet of the laminated dough to obtain a piece of the sheet of the laminated dough in a desired shape,
• (e) forming the piece of the sheet of the laminated dough into a piece of the laminated dough in a desired shape,
• (f) fermenting the formed piece of the laminated dough so that a specific volume of the piece of the laminated dough becomes 1.2 to 1.8 cm3/g,
• (g) rapidly freezing the fermented piece of the laminated dough, and
• (h) preserving the rapidly frozen piece of the laminated dough in a freezer.