Showing posts with label BREAD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BREAD. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Baking
Well the boys went back to school today, so I am free!!! I just made a loaf of bread and then I am off to the quilting club for some much needed catch up. Maybe one day I will get my 1st quilt finished. I leave you with pics of the bread I baked.
Monday, March 21, 2011
BREAD RECIPE
Sam’s Bread
So here is my recipe that I have been using for 4 years now. It took me a while to get this right and it was only through experience that I eventually got by bread the way I like it.. So if you don’t get it right the first time then keep trying, just remember you can always add more water if it is too dry and add more flour if it is too wet.
Do not over proof your bread, this can result in bread that loses all the air when it is put in the oven, it will taste good but not as good as if you did it right.
Put the following Ingredients into your bread machine in the order shown:
2 cups hot water (not so hot that you cannot put your hand in it though)
1 table spoon of olive oil or vegetable oil
4 cups BREAD flour
3 teaspoons of bread machine yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar (granulated or caster sugar is fine)
1. Turn your bread machine onto the dough cycle, my machine is a sunbeam and it takes approx 25 minutes to mix and knead the dough.
After about 10 mins you will see what the consistency of the dough is like at this point if the dough looks too wet add more flour if it is too dry add more water. Your dough should be the consistency of very soft play dough If it is too sticky your loaf can be saved by adding more flour even if the kneading cycle is finished just take it out and add more flour, enough so that you can shape it. If too dry it is best to notice before the cycle finished as it is much harder to add water out of the machine.
2. After 25 mins is up take the dough out of the machine and shape into a loaf, put into a greased pan (I use spray oil) approx size of my pan is 10x13. Open the lid of the bread machine and rest the pan on top, put a tea towel on top of the bread hanging over the sides of the tin.
3. Allow the bread to proof for a total of 1 hour and NO more. It is important that after 1 hour that you can bake your bread straight away so make sure before your hour is up that you already have your oven preheated to the correct temperature.
4. Bake in a preheated oven for 30 mins, 425F
5. Take the bread out of the oven and out of the tin and allow to cool on a wire rack.
EAT and ENJOY
If you do try this recipe, please let me know how you got on with it and if you have any questions I would be happy to answer.
I am hoping one day to actually post pictures of the process, but because its something I do every day I just keep forgetting.
So here is my recipe that I have been using for 4 years now. It took me a while to get this right and it was only through experience that I eventually got by bread the way I like it.. So if you don’t get it right the first time then keep trying, just remember you can always add more water if it is too dry and add more flour if it is too wet.
Do not over proof your bread, this can result in bread that loses all the air when it is put in the oven, it will taste good but not as good as if you did it right.
Put the following Ingredients into your bread machine in the order shown:
2 cups hot water (not so hot that you cannot put your hand in it though)
1 table spoon of olive oil or vegetable oil
4 cups BREAD flour
3 teaspoons of bread machine yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar (granulated or caster sugar is fine)
1. Turn your bread machine onto the dough cycle, my machine is a sunbeam and it takes approx 25 minutes to mix and knead the dough.
After about 10 mins you will see what the consistency of the dough is like at this point if the dough looks too wet add more flour if it is too dry add more water. Your dough should be the consistency of very soft play dough If it is too sticky your loaf can be saved by adding more flour even if the kneading cycle is finished just take it out and add more flour, enough so that you can shape it. If too dry it is best to notice before the cycle finished as it is much harder to add water out of the machine.
2. After 25 mins is up take the dough out of the machine and shape into a loaf, put into a greased pan (I use spray oil) approx size of my pan is 10x13. Open the lid of the bread machine and rest the pan on top, put a tea towel on top of the bread hanging over the sides of the tin.
3. Allow the bread to proof for a total of 1 hour and NO more. It is important that after 1 hour that you can bake your bread straight away so make sure before your hour is up that you already have your oven preheated to the correct temperature.
4. Bake in a preheated oven for 30 mins, 425F
5. Take the bread out of the oven and out of the tin and allow to cool on a wire rack.
EAT and ENJOY
If you do try this recipe, please let me know how you got on with it and if you have any questions I would be happy to answer.
I am hoping one day to actually post pictures of the process, but because its something I do every day I just keep forgetting.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Bread
Proofed and ready to go into the oven. 
Straight from the oven, I wish you could smell it, it makes my mouth water just thinking about eating it, but I have to wait a couple of hours for it to cool down. Please excuse my bread pan, I do not wash it as I have found that it makes a better loaf if i don't, I just spray it with vegetable oil before baking and after give it a wipe down with a damp cloth, this way the bread does not stick to the pan.
Quick take a picture before it is all gone!!!!!! There is nothing like fresh bread with butter and jam YUM
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Did you know I bake Bread
I wish you could smell the wonderful aroma, it makes my mouth water. Every day of the week I bake bread (apart from when I am at college on a morning)for me and dh to have at lunch time. Now, your probably thinking why do I make it. When we first moved here the one thing that I really did not like was the bread that you by at the store. In England in every small village or town there is always a bakery where you can buy fresh bread. Here where I live you can buy the standard packaged bread that tastes like it was made with sugar and vinegar and you can in some places buy fresh bread, but not as fresh as what I used to get back home in England.
So I bought a bread machine. This was not the first bread machine I had ever owned. I had one in England that was such a novelty when I first bought it, then after a couple of weeks it sat in the back of the cupboard never to be seen again. The bread that came out of the machine was too dense and not only that you had a big hole in the centre where the blade had been. So dh looked surprised when I came home with this 2nd machine and remarked how the last one had just been a novelty!
After many weeks I had finally cracked the perfect recipe for making what I would consider the perfect loaf, it has a lovely crusty crust to it and the inside is so light and fluffy, just perfect, to the point that dh comments every time how this is the best bread he has ever eaten LOL. I must admit I agree (head getting bigger as I type LOL). This loaf is a 2lb loaf (so quite large for just 2 people, but what we don't eat at lunch time, my strapping young teen aged son will eat when he gets home from school) and the dough is made in the bread machine. but is then taken out of the machine. proofed and then baked in the oven, so no hole and a lovely crusty loaf. So if you are like what I used to be and have a machine sitting around idle then let me know and I will gladly share my recipe with you. I bake bread so much that I am now on the 2nd machine since moving here,the other one went and died on me, so I just got a new one last week, (we had to go without bread for a whole week, can you imagine that, while waiting for the new one to arrive) I guess making bread everyday can be tough on the machine but it is well worth the money I spent.
So I bought a bread machine. This was not the first bread machine I had ever owned. I had one in England that was such a novelty when I first bought it, then after a couple of weeks it sat in the back of the cupboard never to be seen again. The bread that came out of the machine was too dense and not only that you had a big hole in the centre where the blade had been. So dh looked surprised when I came home with this 2nd machine and remarked how the last one had just been a novelty!
After many weeks I had finally cracked the perfect recipe for making what I would consider the perfect loaf, it has a lovely crusty crust to it and the inside is so light and fluffy, just perfect, to the point that dh comments every time how this is the best bread he has ever eaten LOL. I must admit I agree (head getting bigger as I type LOL). This loaf is a 2lb loaf (so quite large for just 2 people, but what we don't eat at lunch time, my strapping young teen aged son will eat when he gets home from school) and the dough is made in the bread machine. but is then taken out of the machine. proofed and then baked in the oven, so no hole and a lovely crusty loaf. So if you are like what I used to be and have a machine sitting around idle then let me know and I will gladly share my recipe with you. I bake bread so much that I am now on the 2nd machine since moving here,the other one went and died on me, so I just got a new one last week, (we had to go without bread for a whole week, can you imagine that, while waiting for the new one to arrive) I guess making bread everyday can be tough on the machine but it is well worth the money I spent.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Bread/RAKs
Well its been a busy week this week.
Yesterday I received some gorgeous House Mouse images from a RAK on SCS, which I have already started to colour in.
I experimented with my bread and added poppy seeds as a topping. They were lovely especially straight out of the oven with melted butter spread on them.
Yesterday I received some gorgeous House Mouse images from a RAK on SCS, which I have already started to colour in.
I experimented with my bread and added poppy seeds as a topping. They were lovely especially straight out of the oven with melted butter spread on them.Here is a quick card that I had to make on Tuesday and get into the post ASAP it was on it way to Greece. I used my new Penny Black stamp.
Speaking of new stamps I have an order arriving some time this week hopefully today from http://www.thestampbuzz.com/the stamps are the cheapest I have found for PB stamps on the internet and you only pay the actual shipping cost of the stamps, so no over priced shipping and the lovely Isabelle who own it is really helpful, especially if you can't find what your looking for.
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