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Basic Bread Recipie
Ingredients
4 Cups of flour
1
and a half Sachets of dried yeasr
Half
a teaspon of Salt
1
tabllespoon of Sugar
Approx
250 mls warm water
Method
In
a bowl place dry ingredients and slowly add the water mix with a spoon until the
dough looks to be coming together.
Turn
out onto a floured work surface and start to knead. Keep kneading until the
dough stops feeling sticky to touch. You may need to keep dusting the dough and
worksurface with flour until the dough stops sticking
Using
a little Cooking Oil very lightly rub the inside of a large bowl, Place the
dough in to the bowl. Cover the bowl with cling wrap and a teatowel and put in
a warm place to rise for at least one hour.
When
it looks to have doubled in size take the cover off and push the dough down and
again let it rise until it has doubled in size. You can repeat this another
time if you want, the more you do this the lighter the bread. You can how ever
just let it rise once and then put it on a baking tray to rise again for 30
minutes then it is ready to add any topping you wish.
I
usually add a few herbs and some grated cheese and some times a few chopped
olives.
Place
in a preheated oven (220 celcus) for about 15 to 20 minutes. You will know it
is cooked if when you take it out and tap the loaf it will sound slightly
hollow.
This
recipie can be adapted to make rolls and Pizza dough. For Rolls it is best to
let it rise at least 2 times. For pizza just once is enough.
If
it is a hot day the dough will rise if just sat in a sunny place in front of a
closed window the room should be about 27 Celcus . Bread needs to be at this
temp to rise.
If
you have a food processor the dough can be made in that by putting all the dry
ingredients in, turn on the machine and slowly add the water. You may need to
divide the mix and finish knreading it in the machine in 2 halves as it is a
bit hard for the machine. It is worth kneading the mix by hand as this helps to
get the yeast started.
Have
fun doing this with your children and experiment with flavours that they might
suggest. I some times roll out a little of the bread and put a small amount of
you favourite jam (very little amount) and add some dark chocolate melts (only
6 or 7) in the middle then roll the dough up to hide the chocolate and jam and
cook for the usual time. Be very careful when serving this as it will be very
hot and sticky. It is a great lever for getting children to eat all their
dinner and have as a treat.