Make your own Bread
Stand:
A RECIPE FOR BREAD
INGREDIENTS : |
For 1 kg of flour :
around 5.5 dl of water, or combination of water and milk
15 to 20 g of baker’s yeast,
15 to 20 g of salt. |
KNEADING : |
Quality of the bread depends very much on time for kneading : the
dough must be worked seriously, with energy.
Knead the dough at least 20 minutes; at the end the dough has to be flexible,
elastic, glossy, and must not stick to the fingers. Leave the dough in the
recipient used for kneading and cover it with a cloth.
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FIRST FERMENTATION : |
has to operate one hour or more, in a room at 20 °C ; at
the end of first fermentation the volume of the dough is twice. |
SHAPING : |
consists in working out again the dough and put it in a shape
adequate to the recipient (web) where it will have the second raise up (second
fermentation). Sprinkle with flour the web, before laying down the dough.
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SECOND FERMENTATION : |
Always in a room at 20 °C, it lasts one hour more. |
PUTTING INSIDE THE OVEN : |
put down gently the dough on the shovel and cut
quiqkly the upper face of each bread, on one third of the heigh. In the case of
a domestic oven, put the thermostat on 8. |
COOKING : |
around 50 minutes are necessary, for a bread of 1kg.
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