Today Eden and I started to make some hot cross buns so I decided that I would use a recipe from one of my cookery books. The mixture was made to the recipe but as soon as I turned out the dough to start kneading I could feel that it wasn't quite right.
The dough was quite dense and I had used some dried yeast that was fairly newly opened but the recipe had required the addition of an egg. Anyway, I carried on with the kneading and the dough still felt a bit too dense but it did spring back when pressed so I continued kneading for about eight minutes and then put it to rise in an oiled bowl.
The dough was supposed to double in size in two hours so we made some Easter biscuits while we waited but after the two hours the dough had remained very much unchanged. Not wanting to waste good ingredients I decided to divide the dough into two and put in a couple of small loaf tins while I mad some more mixture from my own recipe.
The dough still didn't rise so I cooked the loaves along with the hot cross buns and believe it or not, we tried some spread with butter when we had a cup of tea and it was really good so we now have some hot cross buns and some spicy fruit loaves too!
Hi Grandma,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the recipe turned out. With yeast, it's always a challenge for me when attempting to make bread. With all this rain, I've not even tried. Not supposed to see any sun here until Friday according to reports. The grass and weeds are growing like mad too!
Hi Robin!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you and Ray.
We've had it very warm but could do with lots of rain so please send some over here!
I've just spent this afternoon tying in the roses where they've grown so much and are flowering a month earlier than usual.