Tuesday, April 27, 2010

More Bread Please!

Mere brød behage, もっとパンがしてください。, Plus de pain s'il vous plaît, Mais pão, por favor, 더 많은 빵, 제발, Mer bröd vänligen!!!!
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The first thing we made in FSN 244 was....BREAD! Plain, white bread. Simple, yummy, satisfying.
You'll knead (HAHA..get it? need? knead!?...okay..):
-1 lb. bread flour
-0.25 oz. yeast
-0.3 oz. salt
~10-12 oz water (gauge depending on how loose you want the dough, this typically changes based on the kind of flour you use) *it usually works best with cold, cold water or ice water*

How to:
-Mix all ingredients for about 4 minutes
-Knead by hand or mix use mixer at ~speed 2 till you have a "window." (windows occur when you can stretch the dough till it's nice and thin BUT holes don't appear when you stretch it!)
-Let dough rest, it's tired! Actually it needs time to ferment, for the icky little yeast things to chomp away at the sugar in the dough...
-When the dough slowly becomes a little tight you get to KNOCK IT BACK! This makes it even tighter!!!! Tight!
-At this point you can lay your dough out and portion it to the desired size.
-BENCH THAT ISH! it's tired again...so let it rest.
*here's where it gets tricky*
-You can just let it rest....for it to finish rising OR
-If you have a nifty steam machine..stick it in there for "final proof"
-once its all ready to be put in the oven, stick it in there...duh?
*Caveat on how "long"*....truth be told I don't know how long it's suppose to be in the oven. Just keep a watchful eye on it, be kind and the bakery gods will bless you with the knowledge of when to take them out!

-Cool and Enjoy!

My apologies for the vagueness of this, it was a 8 a.m. class and I don't take good notes in the morning....basically if you mix everything together and let it sit for a while and bake it, you'll
have bread!

Next up:Challah, Whole wheat and Rye bread!

Genieten!!!!
(Dutch)


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