Friday, June 26, 2015

Thursday, June 25, 2015

oven month cont

... and sweet short crust pastry for apple tarts (using a recipe where you melt the butter) and some soft pretzels (with sugar and cinn), and pastry for quiches
250 melted butter with warm milk (3/4 cup?) and 4 cups sr flour - added sugar and spices for sweet pastry

pretzels
  • 1 and 1/2 cups (360ml) warm water (lukewarm, no need to take temperature)
  • 1 packet active dry or instant yeast (2 and 1/4 teaspoons)
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 Tablespoon (8g) granulated sugar
  • 3.75 - 4.25 cups (480-530g) all-purpose flour + more for the counter surface to knead (or mix of whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour)


oven month

m usually not in an ideal baking situation so this month is my chance! A full size oven, all the ingredients and cake tins, cold weather and aussie family ti eat....
Today i made some bran muffins with apple. Also a spiced cake ( common sense cook book) and addded some apple and used the topping from another recipe (1 tab so buttrr 3 sr flour 3 brown sugar).
Recenyly made gingerbread, grapefruit& sour cream cake, hot cross buns, pizza, garlic herb olive bread using the pizza base, peach crumble.
Also a carrot and orange cake.