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Preparation time: 25 minutes Servings: 1 loaf of bread Baking time: 40 minutes Total Time: around 4 hours Difficulty: not too difficult Ingredients: 450 grams / 1 lb + extra strong wheat bread flour 2 tablespoons porridge oats 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons instant active …
Preparation time: 20 minutes Servings: 1 loaf of Easter Bread Baking time: 45 minutes ish… Total Time: around 3 – 4 hours Difficulty: easy Ingredients: 450g / 1lb + some extra strong bread flour 100g / 3.5oz granulated or caster sugar …
Preparation time: 20 minutes Servings: around 10 bread buns
Baking time: 12 minutes Total Time: etc. 3 hours
Difficulty: easy
450 g/ 1 lb plain flour + some extra for kneading if necessary
55 g / 2 oz lard
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons instant yeast
260 – 280 ml / around 9 fl oz lukewarm water (depend on a flour)
For spreading (optional)
1 egg – medium size
2 tablespoons milk
For topping
salt, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, etc.
Sift the flour to a large bowl. Then add all dry ingredients to a bowl and mix together. Add lard, water and knead the mixture with your hands at least 15 minutes to make a soft & elastic, but not sticky dough (put more flour if need it). When you are done, leave it to rest for 1 or 2 hours letting the dough grow doubled size.
When the dough is ready to turn it into a long roll. Cut it to 10 small pieces and shape these to small buns and leave them for 60 minutes-ish to grow – covered with a clean kitchen towel.
Preheat the oven to 220 °C / 430 °F degrees for 30 minutes. Get a small bowl. Add one egg, 2 tables spoons of milk and beat them for 2 minutes to make a nice egg-milk mix. Then brush bread buns with this mixture and sprinkle with the salt or seed of your choice. It will make a nice crust when it bakes.
Bake the buns for around 12 minutes when they turn soft gold (or dark if you prefer it more crunchy… They are best to serve fresh with butter.
I hope you were successful with yours and that you are now enjoying their unique taste and also I hope that you love the smell of those freshly baked bread buns.
Good appetite…
The dough you make should be soft – it grows easier when resting, lets the air in. Moreover, bread bun tastes better and stays fresh longer. If you make it too thick the dough is going to need more time to grow and the bread buns will be quite tough to eat.
The salt is hygroscopic (does absorb moisture) – so, if you use it for topping, the salt turns the surface of the bread buns into a soggy thing next day – so, it would be better to eat them on the same day when they were baked… However, it is still edible even if it’s not eaten on the same day. If you decide to keep them longer, you might want to use a different topping or no topping at all.
Preparation time: 15 minutes Servings: around 45 Coconut balls Cook time: N/A Total Time: 45 minutes Difficulty: very easy Ingredients: 1 tin sweetened condensed milk (size around 400grams/14oz) 225g/8oz (+ some extra for layer cover) desiccated coconut 50x whole almonds Instructions: Good morning my readers. …
Preparation time: 25 minutes Servings: around 3 liters of Fermented elderflower soda Cook time: N/A minutes Total Time: several days Difficulty: Very easy This recipe is for 18+ only (because the final product contain an alcohol). Ingredients: 3 litres water 170g/6oz elderflower heads (around 20x …
Preparation time: 10 minutes Servings: 2 – 3 servings
Cook time: 10 minutes Total Time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Very easy
230g/0.5lb leftover dumplings (about 5 dumplings)
5 eggs
5 tablespoons milk (prefer
½ teaspoon grinded black pepper
1 tablespoon oregano or marjoram
salt
4 tablespoons lard (veg oil)
The good thing on Czech kitchen is they have used a genuine way how to process leftovers from earlier dishes. So, no waste left to throw. And today I’ll show you one of my recipes as an example. How to make a really tasty meal from your old dumplings.
I guess you already tried my Traditional Czech Dumplings recipe.
And today I’ll show you one recipe what you can make if you have some leftover. It is very simple and those dumplings have really wide use but sometimes can happen that after 2 – 3 days you have still some in the fridge. It will be a waste to throw it to the trash because you can still make a very simple and tasty breakfast (or supper). So, let me show you how to do it.
First cut the dumplings into around ½ inch small cubes.
Then prepare a deep-fry pan. Add lard (or veg oil) and preheat the deep-fry pan over moderate heat.
Then add the dumplings cubes and fry them for a couple of minutes. Stir occasionally. If you like them chewy 3 – 5 minutes will be just enough. If you prefer more crispy add more time.
Before the dumpling cubes are getting ready it is the time prepare eggs. Put the eggs to a new bowl. Add a pinch of salt, ground black pepper, oregano (optional – some people don’t like this kind of herb), milk and beat them (using a fork or a whisker) until they are well together.
Then pour the beaten eggs into the pan with dumplings and cook them for another 3 – 4 minutes (don’t forget to stir) depends how you like them.
Serve your dumplings x scrambled eggs mishmash hot. You can sprinkle it with soft chopped spring onions or some chive and fresh tomatoes, gherkins or sauerkraut… It depends on what you like.
Enjoy your meal.