Bread with no yeast

My husband was not feeling well and the Dr advise him to cut down food or breads without yeast.  I used to bake wholemeal bread, in fact I bake every week for our dinner and breakfast.  So I got to look for recipe that need not any yeast for baking bread.  Finally I found 1  bread recipe that need no yeast for baking from the Internet .  It is oatmeal whole wheat quick bread.  AS there is no yeast in this bread, so it is good for those who are on special diets.

The ingredients are,

1 cup rolled oats,
1 cup wheat flour,
2 tsp baking powder,
1/2 tsp salt,1 1/2 tbsp honey,
1 tbsp vegetable oil,
1/2 to 3/4 cup milk,
1/2 tsp vanilla essence,
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder,
3/4 cup raisins.

Preheat the oven to 230 degree C.

In a large mixing bowl, combine oatmeal,flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and salt.

  In a small bowl, dissolve honey in vegetable oil,

 then stir in the milk and mix well.

Combine both mixtures and stir until a soft dough is formed.

 Form the dough into a ball and place on a lightly greased baking pan.

Bake in preheated oven for about 20 minutes or until bottom of loaf sounds hollow when tapped from from the bottom of the pan.

Though this bread is not as soft as our normal bread, its a dense bread, but taste great when fresh from the oven especially eat with butter and my home made pumpkin jam.

Baguette

One day my son wanted me to buy some baguette from the supermarket.  I was thinking why not I learn to bake it myself.  I never like this bread because it is too hard for me.  Since my son like this bread, I will try to bake it.

The next thing I do is to on my laptop to hunt for easiest recipe I can get.  I went through a few different recipes and finally I settled with a recipe that shown in u-tube with instructions.  No knead baguette.

The ingredients,

1/4 tsp. yeast,
1 1/2 cups water,
1 3/4 tsp. salt,
4 cups all purpose flour.

In a bowl, put in the yeast and water.  Mix well by using a wooden spoon.  Add in salt and lastly the flour.  Keep on stirring and mixing until the ingredients no longer stick to the side of the bowl and form a dough.



 cover the dough with plastic and then a kitchen tower.  Let rise for 9 to 10 hours or until  double in turn off oven.

 

 

 

I mixed the dough at 6.30am .  The dough rose to double at 3pm.

 

 

 

 

Remove the dough from the bowl onto floured surface.  It might be a bit sticky.  Have some flour on your hands before handling the dough.  Meanwhile  prepare the baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle some flour on it.

divide the dough into 4 equal parts. Roll and stretch out from the centre into shapes.



Put onto floured baking sheet and cover with another floured plastic for 1 to 11/2 hour or until double.

Preheat oven to 280 degree C, put a bowl of water on the lower rack to create steam while baking.
Use scissor to cut slits of 1/2 inches deep at 45 degree angle 2 inches apart on each loaf.  Spray water on the loaf and put into the heated oven to bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Spray water for the first 5th and 10 minutes of baking.  Turn the baking sheet 180 degree at the 10th minjutes and continue baking for the next 10 minutes or until golden brown.

 

My first time bake baguette .  Very crispy on the crest and soft inside. M y son was very happy to see my success too.  He enjoyed the bread very much with home made garlic spread,

Whole Meal Dinner Rolls

Looking for whole meal dinner rolls to go with pumpkin soup.  Finally found 1 recipe from the web that is simple and easy to make dinner rolls.

Here are the ingredients,

1 cup of water plus 2 more tbsp. of water,
1 large egg,
1/4 cup of sugar,
1 tsp. salt,
2 tbsp. shortening,
2 cups whole meal flour,
11/3 cups all purpose flour,
1 tsp. dry yeast.

It is very easy for me as I am using bread maker to make this bread.  I just have to put all the ingredients starting from the liquid to dry ingredients in the inner pot and press the start button.  the machine will mix, knead and proof the whole process, it will takes 1.30 hour.

Well, those who do not have the machine can also make the rolls by traditional way, that is by hand.
Put all the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl.  Make a well in the centre, beat in the egg, pour in the water gradually.  Using hands to mix the wet and dry ingredients well, add in the shortening and start kneading for 10 to 15 minutes.  Cover with a piece of cloth and let it proof for about 40 minutes or double in size.

 

my dough has been proofed in the bread maker.

 

 

divide the dough into half

 

then into 4, then at last shape into 12 small balls.  Place the rolls on the greased baking sheet.

Brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with some toasted black sesame seeds(optional) .  Let proof for another 40 minutes or when the balls has become double in size.

 

 

bake in preheated over of 170 degree C for 15 minutes.

Woh...can smell the aromatic smell of bread after about 10 minutes of baking,

 

my dinner rolls are ready in 15 minutes, look so pretty, so soft and nice.  Will share the pumpkin soup recipe tomorrow.

 

 

Pumpkin steamed buns

Today the pumpkins are very cheap, only 0 .99 cents a kg in Tesco.  Choose a medium sized pumpkin.  Run through my recipes, cannot decide what to do other then those old recipes.  So, on the lap top and started to search for recipes that make use of pumpkin. Finally I settled down in a blog and found a steam sweet potato buns recipe. I changed sweet potato to pumpkin. This is a very simple recipe and I can find all the ingredients in my kitchen store.


The ingredients are,

100 ml water,
1 tsp yeast,
2 tbsp. water,
300g pau flour/plain flour,
150g steamed and smashed pumpkin,
20 g sugar,
1/2 tsp salt,
20 g shortening.

Mix the yeast into the water and stand for about 10 to 20 minutes.
The method is to combine pau ingredients except the shortening into yeast mixture..Knead the dough until smooth, about 10 to 15 minutes, then add in the shortening.  Continue to knead until the dough become elastic.  Cover with cloth for 15 to 20 minutes or when it becomes double the size. Instead of all this, I use my bread maker to do all the job for me,I put all the ingredients into it, it takes 11/2hour to knead and proof.

 

 

the dough after kneading and proofing in my bread maker.

Punch down the dough and divide into 4 equal parts.  Shape into balls and divide into 4 more equal parts.  Make into shapes or round balls and leave to proof for another 30 to 40 minutes.

 the dough make into 14 equal parts, and shape into small balls.

Steam for 10 minutes.  My pumpkin buns are ready to be served for tea.

Pumpkin Coconut Buns

I used to buy coconut buns from cake shop because I love the coconut filling in the buns.  Today I decided to bake my own coconut buns. After browsing through the Internet, finally settled with a recipe by mix and match from three recipes.

The Ingredients.

300 grams high protein flour

11/2 tbsp sugar

2      tbsp milk powder

1      tbsp butter

100 grams steamed, smashed pumpkin

160 ml cold water

2 tsp instant dry yeast

1 tsp salt

1 egg (for glazing)

2 tbsp black sesame(for decoration)

Ingredients for the filling

180 grams grated white coconut
100 grams dark brown sugar(I got it from Medan,Indonesia)
50 grams UHT milk

25 grams butter

1/4 tsp salt
3 pandan leaves(screw pine),knotted

I put  all dough the ingredients into my bread maker to make the dough, it will take one and the half hour the dough to be ready.  While waiting for the dough, I prepare the filling.

To make the filling, combine butter, dark brown sugar, salt, pandan leaves and milk in a saucepan over low fire.  When butter has melted and the sugar dissolved, stir in grated coconut.  Mix well and cook until mixture is almost dry.  Cool filling, then refrigerate.

When the dough is ready, turn it out on a lightly floured surface, scale down the dough to fifty grams each. Use the palm of the hand to round up the dough into small ball.

Roll ball of dough out flat.  Add a tablespoon of filling.  Gather up the sides and pleat up.  Turn down the pleated side on a greased tray.  Leave the balls to prove for thirty minutes. Brush balls with egg glaze and sprinkle with black sesame.

The buns before baking

Preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius, bake the buns for twenty minutes or until golden brown.

The texture of the buns were much softer and smoother with the added pumpkin.  I like it.

BREAD FACTORY

Yesterday while clearing and cleaning my store room, notice my Sanyo

Bread Factory stand at a corner. It must have been there  for more
then ten years since my daughter left for Kuala Lumpur to further her
study. I really make full use of it when all my children were with us.
It is very handy and easy to bake a loaf of bread or to make dough for

sweet breads. All I have to do is to dump all the ingredients into the

inner pot, choose the setting and press start. The bread will be done in

a couple of hours.

So decide to wake up my bread factory and to check weather it is

still working, went to buy ingredients for baking  a wholemeal bread.

WHOLE MEAL BREAD

400 grams high protein flour

100grams whole meal flour

100 grams mixture of sunflower and pumpkin seeds and raisins

1tbls milk powder

1 tbs margarine/butter

1 1/2 tsp instant yeast

pinch of salt

270 ml water

I will pour the water into the inner pot, follow by the dry ingredients
and the instant yeast go in last.  Choose the setting and the loaf will
be done in 3 hours and 25minutes.

Wow! My bread factory still work well for me.  Its worth investing in it.