In a world of instant mixes, frozen dinners and fast food, the simple pleasure of making bread has almost been forgotten. From childhood I have fond memories of my mother and grandmother baking bread and pasta and sandwiches for meals drive salt bread for dessert. bread baking, sewing, crochet, knit, and is rapidly becoming a lost art, but the truth is that the pasta does not take much more of a cake mix.
Hmm, coolYeast bread! The smell fills the whole house, so that all occur in the scent in the kitchen, hoping that a piece of butter, yeast bread. As I recall, has the smell of bread was a reassuring sign of the country.
There are many things that come to mind when I think of bread: old stories of my grandmother were moments when the bread and cheese, or worse, the bread and water, all that was available to eat the five loaves Jesus blessed and fed5,000 men (women and children are not counted), the unleavened bread of the memory of the place of Christ offered, that the world is at peace with God, the bread and butter in oven on a cold winter morning, the first time I hit batter, then bread baked and served with my new husband. . . Many things come to mind as I spend a whole morning bright and simply enjoy the smell of bread rising and baking. Even the bread dough(Bread with yeast or a combination of baking soda and buttermilk in place of baking yeast), like corn bread with my mother, warm brown (Pinto) beans used to make sense of home and belonging.
Grocery stores have long sold cardboard cake mix on the shelves (I admit that sometimes use one of them.). For some time, but also mixtures of different types of bread sold, biscuits, corn bread mix, yeast rolls and frozen. Although it is generally in order ofnot only give your home the feel of hand, fresh bread. Variety of pre-, brown-to-oven.
You do not have time to bake bread? While the bread yeast to take some time, after all, they must rise, bread recipes, many not much, if anything, more of a mix. For example, using a mixture of corn bread, open the package and pour into a bowl, eggs, oil and milk. To the front of cornbread, size corn bread, flour, salt andBaking powder in bowl, then add eggs, oil and milk. Although it may take 3:58 points to measure the difference in taste is amazing! Another example would be homemade cookies. For biscuits from scratch, adding the measure of flour, salt and yeast in the bowl, oil and milk. According to the biscuit mix that you buy, you can open the package and pour into a bowl or open container and measure the quantity in the bowl, then add oil and milk.Not much difference there?
Nor is it too long to receive cookies whampum (store refrigerated biscuits can be purchased in a roll). Even with these, you must open them and put them in the pan. Frozen biscuits could be faster, but here is a clear difference taste.
I have three recipes for yeast bread pizza crust, I use both table and the bread, corn bread that my mother taught me to do it by heart, and my husband loves cookies.The three quick bread recipes with complete instructions will help you find the art of baking bread aroma.
yeast bread
Then two loaves of bread, or to divide and make the crust for two pizzas.
2 cups hot water
2 tablespoons dry yeast
4 c. soup. Oil
2 v. tea. Sugar
2 v. tea. Salt
5 cups flour
In a 2 cup measuring cup, add yeast, lukewarm water and mix well. Add sugar, salt and oil. Mix liquid and let stand for 5Minutes. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Grease two pans (pans bread or pizza, depending on what you do) with 1 tablespoon of oil each.
Pour the liquid yeast in a bowl. Add half the flour mix gently with a fork to moisten, then add the remaining flour. Stir with a fork until dough forms around the fork (about 25 stems). Flour hands and knead dough until smooth and elastic. Divide the dough into two balls.
For each ball roll18 "rectangle x 9. By the end of the small roll dough into log shape. Tuck ends under and pinch edges. Place in greased pan, cover and let sit for 30 minutes. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
For pizza crust, press each ball into a "12-14" greasy pizza. Make sure the paste is evenly distributed. Top each with ½ cup of pizza sauce and your favorite condiment. Bake for 20 minutes until topping is done and the bottom is lightly browned.After 10 minutes, I change with the two pots on the movement from top to bottom, and on a bottom-up. This prevents someone overcooked and not in others. Let stand for 5 minutes before slicing.
Cookies
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon of tea. Salt
3 C. tea. Yeast
¼ cup oil
¾ cup milk
Preheat oven to 420 degrees F. Measure the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. In a glass measuring cup of liquid, ¼ cup of oil so far. Pour into the same cup oil, milk, make a cup (boiling mixture). Pour at once into dry ingredients. With a fork, stir until dough follows fork, then add 10 times more. Flour hands and knead the dough for ten times. Roll or pat the dough on a cutting board or clean counter. Cut into squares or cut with a floured cookie glass tower. If you hurry, not rolling in dough. Pat the pieces and tear size biscuits and place them in> Pan. If you want the cookies are crisp, the butter or oil. Otherwise, only the pan. If you prefer the crisp pages, place cookies 2 "apart from the hob. Golden brown 15-20 minutes.
Mom's Cornbread
2 cups cornmeal (yellow is better for color)
1 cup flour
2 v. soup. baking powder without aluminum
1 teaspoon of tea. Salt
¼ cup oil
2 eggs, lightly beaten
to make enough milkCentral dough should not be as thin as pastry, but not as thick as cookie dough.
Pre-oven to 425 degrees F. Grease 12 "pan. The best corn bread pan, use baking is an iron pan. Preheating oil. In this way, the crust crunchy cornbread well.
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Add eggs and mix until the oil and make a crumbly dough. Add enough milk (start with 1 cup and add a little at a time until you have enough) to aPour the batter central, but not very fast. Do not overmix. Pour batter into the iron pot. Bake for 20 minutes. Delicious bean soup with all kinds, corn soup and ham, or just a big glass of milk for breakfast collapses!
Whether you prefer the bread, the smell of bread to your family running the table. You should spend a few minutes to create special memories for your children, or better yet help measure ingredients and roll!Making bread, once an art, a daily activity is almost forgotten. Learning to bake bread, make some memories and help a tradition that spans thousands of years to survive!
Copyright 2008, Linda Pogue
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