Monday, August 31, 2009

Bread Baking

Just triggered the interest to bake, by my new colleague. :)
and tried to bake 3 bread so far, sure the yield is better than the previous one each time.

Here's the ingredients:
2-cups organic unbreached bread flour + 2 cups organic whole meal bread flour
2-cups of water
1-teaspoon instant yeast
1-tablespoon sugar
1-teaspoon salt

As the advice and reference from other bloggers, i mixed up the flours & sugar & yeast, then put in the water slowly while mixed the bulk around. And add in the salt little by little. And the dough formed but very sticky to my hand. Here's the picture of my first dough, in the pan :)














Left it "grow" for 2 hours in the .
The size can be twice bigger.
For the first time, i put it in a container which is too small. After one hour, the dough overflow as shown in the next picture.

After 2 hours, took out from the pan, and put in the loafpan, or any baking pan will do, with some stretching with the dough.

Wait for another 1 hour for it to grow for better texture and taste.

After that, i baked it for 30 minutes as not to let the bread too crust. It just nice.
Here's the snapshort of my latest baking project yield. The shape is quite ugly, as i still have got an proper loafpan.
The size is approx 8 inches of diameter with 4 inches of height, thus the volume is approx. .. 201 inch-cubic, or 3 liter ++.