Bread Baking Day – Savoury & Sweet Recipes
Our baking classes are as much about learning to bake as they are a sociable experience. We hope you enjoyed your day and are ready to recreate the bakes at home.
You Baked:
- Basic Dough – Pizza with Various Toppings, Garlic Bread & Shaped Bread Rolls
- Enriched Dough – Chocolate Pizza, Iced Fingers, Cream Cookies
- Enriched Chelsea Buns – Demo
Basic White Bread Dough
Ingredients:
- – 500g Strong Flour
- – 30g Milk Powder
- – Pinch of Salt
- – 100g Fat / Butter / Shortening
- – 30g Fresh Yeast
- – ¼ Litre Warm Water
Method:
- Mix flour, milk powder, salt together.
- Rub fat into flour.
- Add small amount of water to yeast, mix well.
- Pour yeast mix into flour, combine.
- Add rest of water and knead well, until smooth and pliable.
- Cover with a cloth and leave to double in size – prove (approx 20mins)
- Gently knead (knock back) do not use flour.
- Shape into desired shapes.
- Prove until double in size.
- Bake for approx 10 / 12 min depending on size until golden 200`c
- Bread shapes should sound hollow when tapped.
- If making a bread loaf it usually takes approx 30/40 mins.
Pizza
Ingredients:
- – 4 Tbsp Tomato Sauce (Chopped Tomatoes, Herbs, Garlic)
- – 200g (Approx) Grated Cheese
Toppings Such As:
- – Peppers
- – Mushrooms
- – Red Onions
- – Chopped Ham
- – Sliced Tomatoes
- – Olives
Method:
- Roll to fit baking sheet.
- Dock with holes.
- Spread dough with tomato sauce.
- Sprinkle with cheese, toppings & herbs. Season well.
- Bake until dough edges look golden.
- Pizza can be par-baked (to halt dough from rising) and baked thoroughly at later date.
- Bake approx 12 mins depending on size of dough.
Garlic Bread
Ingredients:
- – 250g Melted Butter
- – 2 Cloves Garlic Or 2 Tsp Garlic Paste
- – Salt / Pepper
- – Oregano
Method:
- Roll dough to fit baking sheet.
- Dock dough with holes, brush with melted butter mixed with garlic & herbs, season well.
- Bake for 5 mins 200`c remove from oven.
- Brush with more garlic butter.
- Return to oven for 5 mins.
- Remove from oven.
- Give final brush of garlic butter and season.
- Slice and eat warm.
Shaped Bread Rolls
Method:
- 1 quantity of white dough.
- Cut into 12 pieces.
- Mould round and place under damp tea towel.
- Re-mould into desired shapes.
- Egg wash and sprinkle with seeds (poppy, sesame, flour, cheese).
- Prove until double in size (looks like they wobble).
- Bake 200`c for approx 10/12 mins depending on shape.
- Tap underneath so it sounds hollow.
- Serve warm or cold.
- Can be reheated if splashed with water and placed in a hot oven for approx 2 mins.
- *can be microwaved but wont give a crisp result.
- Bread can be frozen
- Defrost well, splash with water and put into hot oven 2 mins
Basic Enriched Bread Dough
Ingredients:
- – 500g Stong Flour
- – 20g Milk Powder
- – Pinch Of Salt
- – 50g Sugar
- – 50g Fat / Butter / Shortening
- – 25g Yeast
- – ¼ Litre Warm Water
- – 1 Egg
Method:
- Mix flour, milk powder, salt & sugar together.
- Rub fat into flour.
- Add small amount of water to yeast & egg, mix well.
- Pour yeast mix into flour, combine.
- Add rest of water and knead well, until smooth and pliable.
- Cover with a cloth and leave to double in size – prove (approx 20mins)
- Gently knead (knock back) do not use flour.
- Shape into desired shapes.
- Prove until double in size.
- Bake for approx 10 /12 mins until golden 200`c
- Bread shapes should sound hollow when tapped.
Chocolate Pizza
Ingredients:
- – 1 quantity of enriched dough
- – Jar of hazelnut spread or chocolate spread
Method:
- On a lightly floured surface, divide the dough into 4 equal portions and roll each piece out to a roughly 22cm circle, 3mm thick.
- Spread the centre of a circle with ⅓ of the chocolate spread, leaving a 5cm border around the edge. Repeat with 2 more circles, stacking them on top of each other as you go, then top with the last, chocolate-free, dough circle. Transfer to a sheet of non stick baking paper.
- Then take a knife and slice the dough, avoid cutting through the centre, into 8 equal pieces, then between each piece to give 16 pieces.
- Take 1 piece in each hand and gently twist the pieces outwards and away from each other, pressing them together at the end to join.
- Repeat with the rest of the dough so you have an 8-pointed star.
- Set aside to prove for 10 minutes.
- After the dough has proved, place in the oven at 200c for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes reduce the heat to 180c, take the tray out of the oven and cover loosely with foil, this will stop the top from burning.
- Put it back in the oven for another 15 minutes.
- Leave to cool for 5 minutes before serving.
Iced Fingers
Method:
- Cut the enriched dough into 6 pieces.
- Roll round and rest with addition of currants.
- Re roll into finger shapes.
- Prove until double in size.
- Bake 180`c 10/12 mins.
- Cool and coat with water icing.
Cream Cookies
Method:
- cut enriched dough into 4 pieces.
- Roll round and rest.
- Re roll round.
- Place on a baking tray.
- Prove until double in size.
- Bake 180`c 10/12 mins.
- Cool and cut open at a diagonal.
- Fill with jam of choice.
- Pipe in whipped cream.
- Dust with icing sugar.
Chealsea Buns – Demo
Method:
- Roll out enriched dough into a rectangle.
- Brush with melted butter.
- Sprinkle with mixed spice and dried fruit.
- Roll up like a swiss roll.
- Cut into 6 pieces.
- Lay flat on baking sheet with small gap in between.
- Prove until double in size.
- Bake 180`c 10/ 12 mins.
- Cool and boilup with warm stock sugar.
- (boil equal parts of sugar and water)
- Spin with water icing.
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