I would like to let you know how to choose your wheat flour. In the last experiment on cheesecake I didn’t show you how I used wheat flour to make the pastry because I stumbled upon an interesting problem and wanted to write a separate article for it. I was experimenting with biscuits and pastry during the long holidays, while suffering from writer’s block when I noticed that my pastry was frying in the oven. It was more of a fry baking then a baking.
How to make homemade pizza sandwich Turkish delight – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Saturday 13th August 2011, Recipe 20110813
Homemade pizza sandwich Turkish delight – an introduction
Last month I raided my mom’s kitchen to make a sandwich for breakfast . There was nothing with a hint of meat in her fridge or larder so I tried something different. I made a sandwich with cheddar cheese, dates and some hot anchovy chilli spread. It was delicious. Then I thought, wouldn’t that be a good homemade pizza. As many of
How to make Almond Orange Cherry cupcake – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Friday 29th July 2011, Recipe 20110729
Almond Orange Cherry cupcake – an introduction
This almond orange cherry cupcake turned out much better than expected. I decide to do the recipe as an improvement over the previous version of Almond Orange Cherry Cupcake recipe instead of the cheesecake recipe so that you would have something different to try out.
Murphy’s Law, homemade pizza and homemade pizza sauce – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Tuesday 5th July 2011, Recipe 20110625
Murphy’s Law on homemade pizza introduction
Murphy’s Law states that if anything can go wrong, it will. I didn’t believe Murphy’s Law could be applied to making pizza until it happened to me. Everything that could go wrong did. This was the second time within the past five months when I had one of those days. A type of day when everything did go wrong. The first time was when I was making orange cherry bread
How to make homemade pizza with yeast – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Saturday 25th June 2011, Recipe 20110625
Homemade Pizza Introduction
I was making flat loaf plain bread as I had no confidence that I could make pizza. I was modifying the original accidental bread recipe bit by bit until today I managed to make a reasonably good pizza. Two years ago, when I knew nothing about making bread or pizza, I had tried many experiments but most of them were not on par and not tasty. This time around I have managed to convert the flat
How to make apple cider bread with yeast part 2 – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Wednesday 20th June 2011 Recipe 20110620
Apple Cider Bread Introduction
If you read my article on apple cider bread part 1 (see how to make apple cider bread with yeast part 1) you would have noticed that I had mentioned that it was too sweet. Here is the improved recipe for the apple cider bread. I am now aware that my apple cider may not be the real thing but I will have to find some real cider one of these
How to make apple cider bread with yeast part 1 – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Wednesday 15th June 2011 Recipe 20110615
Apple Cider Bread Introduction
If you read my article on Guinness Stout Bread (see how to make a guinness stout bread with yeast) you would have noticed that I had mentioned using Apple Cider to make bread. Well I tried it and the aroma is simply gorgeous, you must try it too. The whole kitchen fills up with this wonderful, wonderful aroma when the bread is being baked.
How to make flat loaf plain bread with yeast part 3 – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Saturday 11th June 2011 Recipe 20110611
Flat Loaf Plain Bread Introduction
This time around I made the flat loaf plain bread using the Straight Dough method – that is everything is mixed up together. In the previous experiment (see how to make flat loaf plain bread with yeast part 2) I had made it using the ‘Sponge and Additives’ method (see how to make bread with yeast 3). Using the Straight Dough method is much easier but you
How to make a flat loaf plain bread with yeast part 2 – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Thursday 2nd June 2011 Recipe 20110602
Flat Loaf Plain Bread Introduction
When I made the Flat Loaf Plain Bread I had some concerns about how it would bake (see how to make flat loaf plain bread with yeast ). I made some adjustments to the recipe. I had reduced the salt content to 1.5% (to the weight of the flour) instead of 2% and had baked the plain bread at 210C (410F) instead of 185C (365F). This time
How to make a Guinness Stout Bread with yeast – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Wednesday 8th June 2011 Recipe 20110608
I had to try this out. I wanted to make Guinness Stout bread for many weeks but never got round to it. Those people at Guinness Stout are experts at aroma and flavours so why not piggy back on their expertise. Furthermore Guinness Stout is a very good source of iron and most beers and stouts contain Vitamin B.
But let me apologise for the one week silence. I have had many duties that could
How to make a flat loaf Plain Bread with yeast – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Saturday 28th May 2011 Recipe 20110528
Why use 100% water when making bread with yeast?
From the results of the last recipe, making bread with yeast, we found out that the 100% water content makes dense bread as the gases generated from the yeast escape from the dough and prevent it from rising any further. The idea behind a 100% water bread was that there was no need to knead the dough and there was no need to use a
How to make Almond Orange Cherry bread muffin cupcake – The Accidental Recipe Modified
Friday 20th May 2011, Recipe 20110520
I am a bit apprehensive about the latest brand of flour I am using as when I add 100% water it does form a thick batter. This should not be the case. It should form a thick gluey ball that can be easily lifted out of the bowl cleanly. For this reason I decided to try my orange cherry bread muffin recipe with this flour. As usually, I have improved upon the recipe.
Yeast leavened wholemeal bread 5– The Accidental Recipe
Sunday 15th May 2011, Recipe 20110515
Actually this is part 10 but as I did not publish experiments 4 to 9 I am calling this part 4. My mum has been complaining my bread is too hard so I have been experimenting with how to soften it without using oil. Notice many of my recipes of late have no preservatives, bread softeners or bread improvers. So it’s a little tougher to get it just right.
One of the options we have to soften the bread is to get it
As you know I am experimenting with bread and trying to find that …. ‘perfect’ …. recipe that can be used by anyone. After noticing that there were people interested in how to make without yeast I decided to go back and re-try the recipe. The key to success is, firstly getting the dough to be gluey and secondly getting it to be tasty … at least edible. The dough will not rise if it is too dry that is the dough sets during baking before the gases
