Showing posts with label Bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bread. Show all posts

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Buttermilk scones.



makes 8 small scones

300g cake flour
15ml baking powde
r
2ml salt
20g casto
r sugar
125g COLD butte
r
100ml butte
rmilk or sour cream
50ml wate
r
1 egg

P
reheat oven to 200c.
Sift all d
ry ingredients into a bowl. rub in the butter until the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Mix the butte
rmilk, water and egg together.
Make a well in the cent
re of the the flour and add the buttermilk mix in portions, mixing with a table knife. The dough must bind into a soft ball and come away from the sides of the bowl.
Lighlty flou
r a workspace and place the dough on it, lightly pat the dough into a 20mm thick round cake, DO NOT KNEAD. Use a scones cutter or a cake mold to cut out round scones.
Place on a baking t
ray and cook for 20 minutes.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Wholewheat bread with seeds.



750g nutty wheat flour
about 625ml wa
rm water
15ml salt
15ml b
rown sugar
30ml vegetable oil
5ml vinega
r
10g instant d
ry yeast
125ml mixed seeds plus seeds to ga
rnish

In a la
rge mixing bowl, add all ingredients bar the water. Stir it through once.
Make a well in the middle of the mix and g
radually add the water all the while stirring.
When done the dough should be moist but not wet.
Grease a bread tin or fit it with a baking paper. Poor the dough into it and sprinkle some extra seeds on top. Cover with glad wrap, place it in a warm place to rise to double the size, should take about 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200C.
Once the dough has risen sufficiently place it in the oven for an hour.
When done
remove from the tin immediately and place it on a cooling rack.