Garro's Simple Recipes 

Fewer salt, fewer oil, fewer sugar

Simple bread

using

rice cooker

Ingredients

1.5 cup Bread flour

1.25 tsp dried yeast

1.5 tbsp sugar

1.5 tsp salt

21g unsalted butter

30ml milk

180ml water

(Total time: 3 hours)

Method

1. Dried yeast must be reactivated before use.  Dissolve around 1tsp of sugar in 1/4 cup of warm water (1 part boiling + 2 parts cold).  Add yeast to it and whisk thoroughly.  Leave it for 10 minutes or until around 2cm thick of froth formed.  Whisk it again and ready to use.

2. In the rice cooker, mix flour, salt & sugar together.  make a hole in the middle

3. Add milk and then yeast.  Use a wooden spoon to mix the ingredients together.  Add water gradually until the mixture form into a dough.

4. Knead the dough for 8-10 minutes.  Add flour to it if it becomes too wet and sticky or add some water to it if it becomes too dry.

5. Cut butter (soft at room temperature) into pieces and stuck them in the dough and continue to knead it inside the cooker (so as to grease the cooker at the same time) until all the butter are dissolve and no lump.

6. 1st fermentation - form the dough into a ball and  close the cooker for an hour (I will press the cook button for 2 minutes to make it warm inside).  After an hour the dough will be double in size.

7. Lift the dough and toss it back to the cooker for a couple of times until it returns to its original size.

8. 2nd fermentation - put the dough back to the cooker and close it for another hour.

9. Cook it now.  For my cooker, it cook and automatic went off after around 15 minutes.  I fix a rubber to the button and make it cook for another 2-4 minutes. 

10. Turn the dough upside down and cook for another 6-8 minutes. 

11. Turn the dough again and cook for another 5-8 minutes or until it's fully cooked.

The whole process finished and you will have a very tasty and yummy loaf of bread like the one in the picture which was made by Tung Tung & me this morning (Oct 20, 2007)