A call out to my International readers: My daughter needs to make a loaf of bread from another culture to enter in the 4H county fair. She is also to include information on how the bread fits into the culture and its nutritional contribution.
I could search the Internet but I would rather hear directly from a person who reads here. Please email us at ruparanoid2 at yahoo dot com with your favorite bread recipe. I will let my daughter choose which to bake for the fair but I wouldn't be surprised if we make many recipes to eat here at home as well.
Thank you in advance!
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We have noted down the email and we will have a think on that. Will try and drop you a note over the weekend. Have a fabulous Friday.
Best wishes Molly
Sounds interesting.
Irish Soda Bread;
Serves – makes 1 loaf
Ingredients
450g (1lb) plain white flour (all purpose I think you call it) preferably unbleached
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
400ml (14fl oz) buttermilk
1. Preheat the oven to 230º Centigrade/400º Fahrenheit /Gas Mark 9.
2. Sift all the dry ingredients into a large, wide bowl, and make a well in the centre. Pour in the milk. Using the fingers of one hand, stiff and oustretched like a claw, stir from the centre to the edge of the bowl in concentric circles. The dough should be softish, but not too wet and sticky. When it all comes together, turn out on to a well-floured work surface.
3. Wash and dry your hands. Pat the dough into a tidy shape and flip over gently, then pat it into a round about 4cm (1 and 1/2 inches) thick. Gently transfer to a floured baking tray. Cut a deep cross into the loaf and prick the centre of each quarter to 'let the fairies or bad spirits' out.
4. Bake for 15 minutes, then reduce the heat to 200ºC/370ºF/Gas Mark 6 and bake for a further 30 minutes or until cooked. If you are in doubt tap the bottom of the bread: it should sound hollow. Cool on a wire rack. Soda bread is best eaten on the day it is made.
Indian Chappatti Bread
You usually use chappatti flour but you can get away with half and half white bread flour and brown bread flour (not mix; the actual flour).
Put flour in a bowl: add water until you get a dough. Knead on a table with a sprinkling of dry flour to stop it sticking until it is lovely and smooth: this can take a while.
Take a small ball and roll out into a flat disk.
Place onto a hot, hot heavy flat pan. As it heats it will begin to bubble and brown. When brown in areas underneath turn over (carefully as this will be really hot) and use a tea towel to gently push down on the bread which forms the air to move through the chapatti making it layered..perfect for scooping up curry!
Here in USA Corn bread is very popular, because corn is mostly grown here. Your daughter can look up Corn belt in Wikipedia...all explained there:)this is my favorite recipe and
Our Friends and family love this:
Sweet Corn bread
1/4 cup margarine or butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 cup cornmeal
2 teaspoons baking powder
Dash of salt
Cream margarine, & sugar; beat in egg milk, and vanilla. Add flour, cornmeal, baking powder, and salt; beat just until smooth. Pour into 9x9x2 baking pan. bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until done. yeild 9 - 12 servings
love Annette
Two lovely recipes from Gaynor.
Good luck to you daughter in the show.
Australian Damper is easy to make. I don't have a recipe but if she checks out taste.com.au there are heaps. Also wikipedia will have the story of damper.
I hope she can sample some (or all) of these! I love Irish Soda and Cornbread!
Well,my grandmothers very old recipe for bread...Hungarian.( I made it about 10 years ago,so you should try it out...at home first...):
1kg flour,1 yeast(25gr),2dl water,2 pinches of salt.You put the flower in a large bowl,you add the yeast in the middle of the flour( you make a whole in the middle),you add the water and salt.If you need you add more water.You roll it to be loaves.You can make bigger or smaller loaves.It is good to make rolls ,too...You bake it in the oven for about 20 minutes.Oh,yes ,before you bake it you grease it with milk.
I hope I helped...:)And that I am in time to help.:)
Lots of luck.:)
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