Bread - Cooking Club Sept '09

Pantry Secrets Bread Dough - 1 Hour Bread

recipe for use in a Ktech, Bosch, KitchenAid or similar mixer

10 1/2 cups unbleached bread flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 T salt
3 T (heaping) SAF instant yeast
Mix to distribute.
Add:
3 quarter-sized dollops of liquid lecithin
4 cups hot water (can use powdered milk)
Mix one minute. Add water if needed. Have quite moist. Mix 5 minutes. Knead a little by hand. Cut dough into four sections with knife - will make four loaves. Place loaves in pans, or rolls/breadsticks/etc on pans and allow to rise for 25 min (place pans in plastic grocery sacs for best results.) Bake at 350 for 25 min.

This recipe may be used for bread, pizza, rolls, breadsticks, hamb/hotdog buns, hoagy rolls, chewy cinnamon rolls, or just about anything bread you can think of. This is not a light, sweet roll dough.

Italian Sausage Appetizer Bread

-Jen Brady

1 pkg (16 oz) ground Italian sausage (or links with casings removed)
1 loaf frozen whited bread dough, thawed
1/2 cup softened cream cheese
2 large garlic cloves, minced
1 jar (7 oz) roasted red peppers , drained & sliced (I use pimentos)
1/3 cup sliced olives (it calls for Kalamata olives, but I think those are too strong, so just use regular black)
2 cups shredded Swiss cheese
1 tsp poppy seed

Brown sausage in skillet. Drain and reserve. On surface sprayed with cooking spray, roll bread dough to a 16 x 12" rectangle. Combine crm. cheese and garlic; spread lengthwise over center 3rd of dough. Top with sausage, peppers, olives and Swiss Fold dough over filling, pinching seam to seal. Make slits across top of dough every 2 inches. Brush lightly with water and sprinkle with poppy seeds. Bake at 400 for 20-25 min, or until golden brown. Let stand 10 min before slicing. Serves 16.

Homemade Croutons
-Lenora Siggard

10 slices bread - cut into 1/2" cubes (can use dry bread, lefover toast or hamburger buns)
1/4 cup margarine or butter, melted in large frying pan

Add cubed bread. Sitr until bread is coated with some butter. Sprinkle on Italian Seasoning, salt or Garlic salt to taste. Other herbs may be used. Continue stirring until seasoning is mixed in evenly. Spread on large cookie sheet and place in 250 degree oven for a short while. Since bread is partl dry already, it browns quickly. Don't let it burn

Best Ever Cornbread
-Deyce Peterson

Preheat oven to 375. Blend first 5 ingredients together.

1 c. melted butter

1 1/3 c. sugar

2 c. buttermilk

4 eggs

1 t. salt

Then stir in the dry ingredients.

1 1/4c. cornmeal

2 ¾ c. flour

1 ½ t. baking powder

½ t. baking soda

Bake in a greased 9 x 13” pan for 35-45 minutes or until lightly brown and middle springs back slightly when touched.

This makes a very thick pan of cornbread. I often cut the recipe in half and bake it in an 8” square pan. The bread has a slightly sweet taste and is already buttery. It is good topped with honey or jam but it can also stand alone with no topping. Yum!

Pound Cake
-Glenny Riley


Pizza Bread
-Bonnie Wakefield

Slice a loaf of french bread in half, lengthwise. Spread with pizza sauce, and top with your choice of cheeses and pizza topping. Bake in 350 degree oven until cheese is melted. Serve immediately.

Blueberry Muffins
Judy Kirkham & Deyce Peterson