Monday, March 19, 2012

Irish Brown Bread

Ingredients:


All purpose flour- 2 cups
Wheat flour - 1 + 1/4 cup
Oats - 3/4 cup
Oil- 2 tbsp
salt - 1/2 tsp
Sugar- 2 tsp
Curds/Yogurt - 1 + 1/4 cup
baking powder - 3/4 tsp

Preparation


Place the baking sheet in oven and Preheat oven at 375
.

Mix all purpose flour and baking powder in a large bowl

Mix well
Add Wheat flour to the mixture and mix well
Add oatmeal and mix
add oil and sugar and mix well
Add curd

knead well and make a ball
use some flour or water if needed

Place the ball over baking sheet

make a cross with floured knife
Pace it in the oven for 45 minutes till the crust is hard and the bread is cooked properly
Cut and serve

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Morning Rolls

All purpose flour - 2 and 1/2 cups
Oil/shortening- 4 tsp
warm water - 1 cup
Yeast- 1 tsp
Sugar- 2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp

Take a bowl and add oil ,  1 and 1/2 cup of flour in it. Add oil yeast and sugar to flour

Mix properly
Add warm water and mix properly
Add salt after mixing

add one cup of all purpose flour and knead the flour to give a nice texture
grease a bowl and keep the dough greasing at all ends

Cover with damp cloth and keep aside for an hour and half

The dough will increase in size after keeping aside
Punch the dough and knead for 5 minutes
separate out small balls from the dough
Give them round shape and place in a greased baking dish

keep aside for 1/2 an hour
Preheat oven at 450 F
place the baking dish with balls inside the oven and heat for 15 minutes.

Remove from oven and let it cool.


Alteration:
use 1 1/2 cup of wheat and 1 cup of all purpose flour  instead of 2and 1/2 cups of all purpose flour to make Wheat rolls.
They will be just as good


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Egg less Custard Cake

Ingredients

Milk- 1and 1/2 cup
Oil/Butter- 2 tbsp
Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 3/4 cup

All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cup
Baking powder- 1 and 1/4 tsp
Custard powder(Vanilla)- 1/3 cup

Preparation
Preheat oven at 360F(180C)
Take a bowl (big enough to contain all ingredient) and pour milk in it
Add oil to the bowl and mix well
Whisk for some time
Add Vanilla essence and whisk again till it mixes well
Add sugar to the bowl
Mix well till sugar dissolves(check if it not settling at the bottom)

In a plate sieve all purpose flour, baking powder and Custard powder


Add the mixture to Bowl in batches, stir after adding each batch
Whisk till the mixture smooths


Pour in greased baking dish and bake for approx 30 minutes
Check by poking toothpick to cake.If it comes out clean, cake is done
Let the cake cool down inside the oven. Remove when it is cooled down