this is not my sandwich

i attempted peter reinhart's transitional whole-wheat sandwich loaf today, and it was quite a semi-success.
the pre-doughs. i love reinhart's epoxy method for his whole-grain baking book. i think what appeals is the way he has broken up the baking process so that you can fir the baking to your schedule, not the other way round, as is the case with other straight doughs.
the dough came together nicely. but i was having a dilemma: the recipe called for a loaf tin which i didn't have. the ones i had were smaller, so i thought maybe i should divide the dough in two, but i didn't know if they would rise to fill the two tins fully enough.
in the end, i decided to divide the dough. i preshaped them and then shaped them after more resting.
i was trying to bake them pullman-style. that is, covering the top of the loaf so that the expansion is limited and the loaf gets a flat top, resulting in an almost square shape, just the kind that comes from gardenia.
but alas, they failed me by collapsing during the baking. oh well, i think they overproofed in the loaf tin, because they were more than double the original size when i sent them into the oven. still, the collapse didn't come with a dense or gummy interior. the bread was still soft and fluffy, entirely eatable.