Hungarian farmers bread
Fresh bread
Inspired by a post that Ben made on his blog “What’s Cooking” about homemade bread I realized I had never really made my own bread. I had done it only once with one of those packages you can buy in the supermarket. The only thing you need to add is water and the rest is all pretty simple. After reading Ben’s post I decided it was maybe time I tried to bake a proper bread. I have this book about bread which had been standing on the shelf for a long time, so after going through the many many options for making bread I decided it was probably best to start of simple. So this bread is a pretty basic bread (I think) but it’s still a lot of kneading, rising, kneading again, rising etc…
Nothing better then bread and butter
We will eat this tonight for dinner with some lovely stuff on top (still have to think of what exactly…:) but if you want to try this for yourself; here is the recipe.
Ingredients:
- 450 gr wheatflour
- 2 tsp salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of sesame-seeds
- 1 tbsp castersugar
- 20 gr fresh yeast (I used 7 gr of instant yeast)
- 2,75 dl lukewarm water
- 2 tbsp melted butter
For the crust:
- 1 eggwhite
- bit of salt
- 2 tsp sesame-seeds to spread over the top
Directions:
1. Put a little butter on a baking tray. Put the flour and the salt in a large bowl and stir the sesame adn sugar through it. Make a little hole in the middle.
2. Add the yeast to a little water and stir until creamy, add the rest of the water and pour into the hole. Stir in enough flour for a liquid dough. Sprinkle with some flour, cover and put it on a warm spot til it starts to rise and bubble.
3. Add the melted butter and mix everything till it is a an equally spread dough. Knead the dough on a surface covered with some flour in 8- 10 minutes smooth and elastic. Put it in a bowl that is rubbed with a little oil to prevent sticking, cover with greased plastic foil and leave to rise in a warm spot for 45-60 minutes until the volume has doubled.
4. Beat the dough back on a flour covered surface. Make an oval out of it and put it on the baking tray. Cover the dough with greased plastic foil and leave it in a warm spot for another 30-40 minutes to rise untill the volume has doubled.
5. Preheat the oven at 220 ° C. Mix the eggwhite and the salt and put some on top of the bread. Sprinkle with the sesame seed and cut with a sharp knife over the top of the bread. Bake the bread for 20 minutes and put the temperature down to 180 °C and bake for another 10 minutes untill it sounds hollow when you tap the bottom of the bread. Leave to cool on a rack.
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Nicely done! There is nothing better than the smell of fresh baked bread. Someone should really make it into a candle…
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Looks perfect!, Nothing can beat home made bread
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Great job! That bread looks really good. I am sure that after this one you won’t go back to store-bought bread :-p And most are pretty easy to make. The ones I usually make don’t require much kneading and raising and they are all very tasty
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No kneading and raising…. oohhhh, now you tell me!! I guess I picked the wrong bread then afterall…:) Still very tasty!
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Great job! It looks fantastic with the butter!
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That looks so good I can almost smell it!! YUM! I love making my own bread just for the smell.
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Congratulations on your first attempt at baking bread.A great job you did too!!! What did you have on the bread in the end!!!
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Simone (junglefrog) — March 31st, 2009 at 18:34
I think we had some with an omelet which was real tasty and the day afterwards I toasted some of the bread and had it with ham (I think… I can’t remember!!
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That looks like a real good bread, i can probably eat that all by myself..LOL! Very good first attempt, congratulations!
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How did you know I was craving fresh bread? Ah, now I’m so hungry..!
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Huh… The bread looks gorgeous and probably tasted great, however it sounds as little like hungarian farmers bread as raisin cake is soda bread…
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Simone (junglefrog) — May 6th, 2009 at 22:44
Well, I just used the name that was given in the original recipe..:) No idea if that is truly Hungarian bread ofcourse!
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Simone, nicely done. Bread need lot’s of patience. This is come out great!…. But, this is not a hungarian farmers bread…Sorry. ( Our farmers bread at least 6-7 lbs….)
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I’ve tried this bread a couple of months ago, and everybody loved it so much, that I wasn’t allowed to try more than one new recipe each month, everybody asking for this one
Thank you very much for sharing the recipe!
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Simone, now this is funny!! Do you know that I have backed this bread ever so often since I found it (don’t even know how I got there first place!!)
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Simone (junglefrog) — May 25th, 2011 at 14:42
O that is so funny Astrid! You probably did a better job then me on baking this though… You being a bread baking babe..:)
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