Lemon Blueberry Bread

Bought some organic blueberries from the fruit shop downstairs and thought I'd try a new recipe.

Found a Lemon Blueberry Bread from the website of Joy Of Baking.  For once, I stuck to the original recipe and didn't change a thing to the ingredients' quantity but instead of baking in a loaf, I baked them in muffin cups.  Here's a sneak peek

Verdict?  Not bad I'd say.  More cake-like than bread, it's not overly sweet and the lemon glace adds a nice aroma and flavor to the bread.

Pandan Bread

Managed to get my hands on a simple Pandan Bread recipe and decided to make some this morning.

Recipe adapted from here.  I didn't turn it into the checkered bread like the writer and made replaced the pandan paste.  Instead, I blitzed about 100g of pandan leaves (screwpine leaves) with the milk and strained it.  Colour came out great but I think I could use more pandan leaves the next time round to enhance the taste.

Didn't use a loaf pan either.  Hubs rolled them up...

And here's the final product.

  

Sandwich Loaf

Thanks to wonderful ex-colleagues, we now have a smart looking bread maker sitting in our kitchen. Here's the first sandwich loaf from the machine. Recipe's taken from the booklet that came with the machine.

Water 250ml (I replaced with fresh milk)
Butter, melted 1.5 tbsp
Sunflower oil 1.5 tbsp (I used Canola)
Sugar 3 tbsp
Salt 0.5 tsp
Strong white bread flour 3 cups
Fast action / instant yeast 1 tsp

The texture is not bad. More dense than store bought bread.  I'll reduce the yeast the next time round though. Don't fancy the yeasty taste.

Enjoy!

My First Loaf

My friends know that I am into cakes and cookies. The bread baker at home is really Moobe. This is my virgin attempt, using a recipe found in a blog called A Year in Bread. All in all, it took 4.5 hours (from the word go to the finished product) but it's well worth it. I could have left it for a little longer on the final proofing as it's not as light as I wished but nonetheless, it's nice. I halved the recipe, and used 5g of dry yeast with a couple spoons of warm water to get the yeast going. I'd use a little less yeast next time. Oh a little less salt will be good too.

I think I will mix in herbs the next time. Here's the ingredients that I used (approximately half of what the original recipe called for):

283g plain flour
14g sugar
5g dry yeast (mixed with 2 tbl sp warm water)
15g butter (melted)
454g milk (room temperature, though it called for warm milk in the recipe)
412g bread flour

for the method, do refer to the original blog post. The writer had step-by-step instructions, right down to the nitty gritty. Very useful indeed!

breadsticks

Moobe baked some bread sticks yesterday. Not bad, if I may say so :) even my fusspot Yohei (yes, fussy when it comes to bread) happily munched away. Leftovers this morning gets a spray of water and heated up again for the crisp crust. Think I'll have them with my coffee this morning.

Beary Toasts

Breakfast today - slices of bread cut out into bear shapes, dipped into a batter of eggs, milk, sugar and a drop of vanilla essence then pan fried. I think I'll toast them instead the next time round.