Mom made Hops Bread
Hops Bread, Baked, originally uploaded by Lilandra.
This is how our evening started.
Mom: Lilandra, what you doing? Come downstairs with me, nah. I going to make hops.
Me: Okay then well I will come make the crust (for my lemon meringue pie).
Mom: (as she’s going down the corridor) and print out TriniGourmet’s recipe. You just have to copy and paste the recipe into TextEdit and print it.
So, I did.
Anywayz, mom and dad’s coolpix was downstairs (I brought it down so she could take pictures of her orchids but…is she willing??? NOOOO!!!). And I was tired. So I took pictures with it. I told her she could post them as hers but she told me to blog them.
But she only used it as a guide…or…to see how different hops go. This is mom’s recipe:
Hops Bread
Ingredients
- 1 package dry yeast
- 2 tsp sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 8 cups white flour
- 2.5 cups warm water
- 1 tsp salt
Method
- Dissolve sugar in warm water.
- Dissolve yeast in sugar and water; mom let it stay a minute or so after dissolving.
- Add flour and salt to the liquid.
- Stir and knead until it was smooth and elastic (5 minutes or so).
- Pour some water over the dough and cover it and let it rise until it doubles in size (20 minutes).
- Punch down dough and knead again and cover and let it rise until it doubles in size again.
- Grease tray with shortening.
- Punch down dough and pinch and shape into balls (mom made 15) and place on the tray.
- Let it rise until it fills the tray (or gets to a suitable size).
- Preheat oven (say 375F - 400F)
- Bake for about 15-20 minutes or until nice and medium brown.
The rest of the set is here.
But, look at the nice inside texture!
ahhh, hops!
my honey-molasses-whole wheat bread came out nice too, but no nice hopsy crust though…
Mom makes such nice dough balls - nice smooth skin.
hot hops, sigh
and more than a QUART too!!
Comment by Chennette — Sunday 15th, June 2008 @ 11:00 pm
you should mention you used the coolpix
Comment by Chennette — Sunday 15th, June 2008 @ 11:02 pm
yeah! our parents can make circles and balls by hand without help
it must be a maths skill
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 15th, June 2008 @ 11:06 pm
ahhh
ok
thanks now you remind me
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 15th, June 2008 @ 11:08 pm
but all of you are Maths people so why can you not make circles and balls.. well except for the big sister…..
Comment by trinimom — Sunday 15th, June 2008 @ 11:19 pm
so fluffy!!!!! :D :D :D :D
Comment by The TriniGourmet — Monday 16th, June 2008 @ 11:22 am
oh my lord! i had to approve you!!!!
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 17th, June 2008 @ 5:42 am
Re: Step 5 - can you ask your Mom how much water one should pour over the dough; and is it pouring or sprinkling?
Comment by Chennette — Friday 20th, June 2008 @ 3:33 pm
i also forgot to say when to add the baking powder
Comment by Lilandra — Friday 20th, June 2008 @ 8:11 pm
Baking powder is added with the flour , well with the dry ingredients…. and it is sprinkling of water over the dough to increase the raising surface my mother use to say… not sure if that is so but I continue to follow her in this (smile) as it really makes the difference in the bread and roti etc…..
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