DandyID
Hyves
Facebook
Twitter
Flickr
Linkedin
Blogger
Modelmayhem
Stumbleupon
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.
Hungarian farmers bread
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
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.
If you liked that post, then try these...
Tomato bruschetta and pasta with cream and sausages; Cooking Italy! by Simone (junglefrog)
Cooking course is back!! by Simone (junglefrog)
Creamy pasta; then and now... by Simone (junglefrog)
Tagliatelle with saffron, bacon and peas by Simone (junglefrog)
Pineapple and toasted coconut cake by Simone (junglefrog)
Nicely done! There is nothing better than the smell of fresh baked bread. Someone should really make it into a candle…
Looks perfect!, Nothing can beat home made bread
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
No kneading and raising…. oohhhh, now you tell me!! I guess I picked the wrong bread then afterall…:) Still very tasty!
Great job! It looks fantastic with the butter!
That looks so good I can almost smell it!! YUM! I love making my own bread just for the smell.
Congratulations on your first attempt at baking bread.A great job you did too!!! What did you have on the bread in the end!!!
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!!
)
That looks like a real good bread, i can probably eat that all by myself..LOL! Very good first attempt, congratulations!
)
How did you know I was craving fresh bread? Ah, now I’m so hungry..!
Huh… The bread looks gorgeous and probably tasted great, however it sounds as little like hungarian farmers bread as raisin cake is soda bread…
Well, I just used the name that was given in the original recipe..:) No idea if that is truly Hungarian bread ofcourse!
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….)
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!
[...] of Junglefrog Cooking made Hungarian Farmers Bread (This is Simone’s very first homemade bread. I am glad to see this event has inspired some of [...]