Thursday, December 8, 2016

bread recipes

http://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/soft-spongy-moist-how-to-make-white-bread-778991
http://food.ndtv.com/lists/bread-and-beyond-10-best-sandwich-recipes-755542
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/white-soda-bread-recipe.html


Ingredients
1 pound (450 grams/ 3 1/4 cups) white flour, preferably unbleached
1 level teaspoon/1/2 American teaspoon salt
1 level teaspoon/1/2 American teaspoon bread soda (baking soda)*see note
Sour milk or buttermilk to mix - about 12 to 14 fluid ounces (350 to 412 milliliters)
*Note: an Irish tablespoon is the same quantity as an American tablespoon plus a teaspoon
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Directions
Watch how to make this recipe.
First fully preheat your oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
Sift the dry ingredients. Make a well in the center. Pour all of the milk in at once. Using 1 hand, mix in the flour from the sides of the bowl, adding more milk if necessary. The dough should be softish, not too wet and sticky. When it all comes together, turn it out onto a well floured board.
WASH AND DRY YOUR HANDS. Knead lightly for a second, just enough to tidy it up, flip over. Pat the dough into a round about 12 inches (2.5 centimeters) and cut a cross on it to let the fairies out! Let the cuts go over the sides of the bread to make sure of this. Bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes, then turn down the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) for 30 minutes, or until cooked. If you are in doubt, tap the bottom of the bread: if it is cooked it will sound hollow.
Soda bread only takes 2 or 3 minutes to make and 20 to 30 minutes to bake. It is certainly another of my 'great convertibles'. We have had the greatest fun experimenting with different variations and uses. It's also great with olives, sun-dried tomatoes or caramelized onions added, so the possibilities are endless for the hitherto humble soda bread.
Note: This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The FN chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.
Recipe courtesy of Darina Allen

Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/white-soda-bread-recipe.html?oc=linkback
Ingredients

5-6 cups flour
1/2 cup milk
3 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
3Tbsp butter
2 packets of yeast (dry)
1 1/2 cups water

The only thing I added here is a pinch of gluten which you can if you like your bread a bit sturdy.

Method:

1. Heat the milk and add sugar, salt and butter. You can also you margarine if you want. Make sure the butter melts. If it hasn’t then microwave it a bit or over hot boiling water. You don’t want it boiling but it should be completely melt. Allow this mix to cool.

2. Heat up the water to about luke warm and add the yeast. Add a cup of flour and start stirring/mixing.

3. Add a second cup of flour and the butter mix you made in step 1. Stir again for a 9-10 minutes.

4. Add another cup of flour (3rd cup) and stir.

5. Add the next cup of flour and stir/knead for around 5-6 minutes. Add the 5th cup of flour and knead again. Keep kneading till it’s soft and doesn’t break but behaves more like clay. Add a bit more flour if required.

6. Pour some flour on your kitchen slab and start to knead the dough.

7. Oil a big pot. pan for the dough to go into. Cover with a towel and let it rise for around 35-40 minutes. Longer if it hasn’t risen.

8. Punch it down in the pot, take it out and knead it a little bit. Split it into two equal loaves.

9. Take two baking trays, oil them and put the dough in. The recipe asks for oil to be sprayed on top of the dough but i brushed some butter over them.

10. Cover them and let the dough rise for around an hour.

11. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees and bake till golden brown.

(Nigel Slater's Bread Recipes)

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