Parker Bread Rolls

Light and fluffy bread rolls with white flour, milk and eggs. Made together with the girls.

Childsplay

The girls helped me out with the kneading. Look at that for technique!

Pane con Pomodori e Cipolle Rosse

Tomato and Red Onion Bread.  This was a lot of work because I had to cut up the tomatoes, remove the skin core and seeds, soften the onions and tomatoes by simmering in olive oil, mix into the dough, etc.  Used up some of our own home-grown tomatoes!

Turned out good, except I wasn't paying attention and the top got slightly blackened. Next time would add more tomatoes, onions and salt. Although it smelt great and tasted great, it wasn't as strongly flavoured as I expected.

The yeast and flour "sponging"...

Meaty tomatoes from the garden:

Red onions:

Fry 'em up:

Knead into the dough:

And voilà!  (the yellow slices are a cornbread I made earlier)

Classic Corn Bread

This was a quick bread to make, a traditional American recipe... really it was more like an unsweetened cake than a bread.

Contained eggs, baking powder, baking soda, buttermilk, ...  actually I didn't have any buttermilk so used kefir mixed with milk. No rising or proving time, just mix it up and straight into the oven. Turned out pleasant enough, if a bit unexciting.

Below, the red coloured slices are from the Tomato and Onion bread which I made next.

Repeat order

At special request for Györgyi's birthday I made the "Dark Chocolate Bread" again. Unfortunately I had to substitute vanilla sugar instead of caster sugar which we had run out of, and the vanilla flavour was too dominant, and the cocoa flavour not bitter enough. Lesson learnt!

The bread machine is now also in regular use, as an easy way to experiment with ingredients, sometimes adding corn flour, sometimes rye flour, more or less sugar or oil, different proportions.

Torta di Testa di Prosciutto e Formaggio

Golden Cheese and Ham Bread

I didn't have enough prosciutto so it's a bit light on the ham. And I used a slightly different cheese than the Emmental called for by the recipe. Contains 4 eggs. Tastes a lot like Hungarian Sajtos Pogásca (cheese scones).