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how to make flat loaf plain bread with yeast

Flat Loaf Plain Bread

Flat Loaf Plain Bread

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 bread making machine. We will still try to keep to this principle. … Continue reading “how to make flat loaf plain bread with yeast »

how to make yeast bread rise more

Bread Rise More

Bread Rise More

How to make yeast bread rise more – The Accidental Recipe

Sunday 22nd May 2011, Recipe 20110522

How to make bread rise more – an introduction

I have been trying to figure out how to make the bread rise a lot more as a way to soften the bread. There are several ways to make the bread softer. … Continue reading “how to make yeast bread rise more »

how to make almond cherry orange bread muffin cupcake

Almond Orange Cherry Cupcakes

Almond Orange Cherry Cupcakes

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. … Continue reading “how to make almond cherry orange bread muffin cupcake »

how to make bread with yeast part 4

Homemade Bread

Homemade Bread

Yeast leavened wholemeal bread 4– 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 to rise more. Do note that this is a 100% water bread and it would be heavier and slightly tougher than a standard bread recipe but there is no physical work of kneading or the need for a bread making machine. … Continue reading “how to make bread with yeast part 4 »

how to make hot chilli bread

Hot Chilli bread homemade

Hot Hot Chilli Bread

Chilli bread hot hot homemade

Chilli Bread – The Accidental Recipe Modified Sunday 10th April 2011

Recipe 20110410B

As you know I am very adventurous with my breads … especially if I am planning to share it with someone else. I did mention my chilli bread experiment before and here is the recipe. I used a blend of high ratio flour and bread flour so that the bread would be softer.

… Continue reading “how to make hot chilli bread »

orange cherry bread muffin cupcake

orange cherry bread muffin

orange cherry bread muffin

Orange Cherry bread muffin cupcake– The Accidental Recipe Modified

Sunday 10th April 2011, Recipe 20110410

I was in a bit of a mischievous mood when a friend of mine asked me to bake some bread for her. I know that she loves eating cherries so I thought I should give her cherry based bread. When I began mixing the ingredients I realised that I had not asked her if she liked her bread, hard, soft, savoury or sweet. If I had made her something with cherries it would definitely be a white bread and that means it would have to be a little sweetish. And a white bread meant no additives … wow no additives … what was I going to do? I couldn’t make her a loaf of wholemeal bread and add in the cherries. … Continue reading “orange cherry bread muffin cupcake »

how to make bread with yeast 3

how to make bread

How to make bread with yeast

How to make bread with yeast 3

 

I have shown two similar recipes here on how to make bread with yeast but with improvements from previous recipe. They are provided as examples of water content and ease of making. Just a note, just before you do any food preparation and cooking do wash your hands thoroughly with soap and running water. This will reduce the chance of contaminating your food with germs and unwanted dirt that may make your food horrible to taste. Having said that let us continue on how to make bread with yeast part 3. … Continue reading “how to make bread with yeast 3 »

how to make bread with yeast 2

baked bread

baked bread

Yeast leavened wholemeal bread 2 – The Accidental Recipe

Friday 28th February 2011 (Experiment 20110228)

The last yeast based wholemeal bread was slightly sweet but I did not reduce the sugar content. I reduced the bran content, accidentally. I guess, in my hurry, I was reading off the wrong row in my hand written recipe. The recipe shown here is the actual weight of ingredients used. This recipe is based upon the accidental recipe with minor adjustments. I was just trying to reproduce the accidental recipe to verify that that recipe was not a fluke. … Continue reading “how to make bread with yeast 2 »

how to make bread with yeast 1

baked bread

baked bread

Yeast leavened wholemeal bread 1 – The Accidental Recipe

Friday 25th February 2011

As you have read, I have been attending baking school and am studying how to bake bread using yeast as the raising agent. There are two basic methods of making bread, the Straight Dough method and the Sponge & Dough method. The Straight dough method is basically, adding all the ingredients together and allowing the yeast to act before baking. The Sponge and Dough method uses about 70% of the flour, water and yeast to make the mixture rise – the sponge before the remaining 30% and other ingredients are added. Other then what I have mentioned, I will not elaborate further as there are many courses on baking and baking bread which extremely useful if you are serious and have a passion for making bread. The practical experience and exposure really does help and it’s not the same as reading instructions from a book or a website. … Continue reading “how to make bread with yeast 1 »