Ciabatta (Part 2)

This bread was amazing and so easy to make, you can easily impress at a dinner party with very little effort.

Further Ingredients:
250g Bread Flour
10g yeast
190ml water
12g salt

To finish the bread, add the flour and yeast to the bread mixture and mix well. Gradually add the rest of the water, when the water has nearly been added, add the salt and mix together for a further 5 mins, until sticky dough formed.

Transfer the dough into a large oiled bowl and leave to rise for 1 hour

Transfer dough to a heavily floured work surface and leave to rest for a further 30 mins.

Preheat oven to 240c

Cut the dough into 3 strips and stretch them out to make long flat ciabatta loafs. Mine got a bit skinny so I made fat ciabatta sticks (which we actually great - like the ones that you can buy in woolworths).

Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and leave for 10 mins.

Transfer the dough to the oven to bake for 25 minutes, or until risen and golden brown.

Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.

We had these for lunch and they were very very good, would be great as a accompliment bread
to a starter, soup, pasta dish, or just for lunch with good ham and cheese.

(sorry no pics as we eat them too quick)

Spinach, onion & Prosciutto Focaccia: Part 2

This was amazing, so I am definitely adding this to my cookbook.

I must warn you this is not a recipe from Ready Steady Cook, it's a bread to be made when you have a whole afternoon to potter around the house.

The next day remove the started bread from the fridge about 2 hours before you need to start.

Ingredients:
500g all purpose flour
360ml warm water
2tsp sea salt
75ml olive oil
200g baby spinach roughly chopped
100g spring onions roughly chopped
200g parma ham chopped
80g butter
1 sachet dried yeast (10g??)

Put flour in a bowl and add the water, yeast and the mix you left overnight. Then add salt and olive oil. In food processor mix for 1/2-1minute or until get a clear dough. (or work by hand).

Now add spinach, onions and parma ham. Mix into the dough and put in a lightly greased bowl, and cover with cling film (or put bowl in a plastic carrier bag). Wait until the dough has risen threefold.

Punch the dough back and give it another rise. (15mins??)

Sprinkle flour onto worktop and tip dough onto surface. Cut into 3 and and shape each into a ball. Place on a baking sheet and cover gently with cling film. When slightly puffed up (30 mins??), put balls back on to floured surface. Dip fingers repeatedly into melted butter and massage the butter into the ball. As you work the dough, flatten it out and dimple until it is flat 3/4inch disk with dimples.

Put back onto a greased baking tray. Let it recover and prove for 30 mins and put it into the oven at 200c and bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.

(once baked you can drizzle a bit more melted butter over the top).

These were great, we ate one with a salad and then took the remainder cold the next day for a picnic.

Focaccia with Spinach, Onion & Parma Ham (Part 1)

This is also a 2 part operation as with the Ciabatta (both found on the BBC website).

Tonight:

Mix 60g flour with 60ml of water (luke warm) and 15g of yeast.
Mix this all in so no lumps, then leave for a couple of hours then transfer to the fridge over night.

If there is no part 2 then everything went wrong.

Ciabatta: Part 1

Hopefully if this all goes OK there will be a Ciabatta Part 2.

Tonight:
Mix 250g of Breadflour with 190ml (7floz) of water and 15g of dried instant yeast. Whisk for 3 minutes in a large bowl. Cover and leave to rise over night.

Oma's Unfloppable Raisin Bread

3 cups self raising flour
small 3/4 teaspoon salt
1 small cup sugar
currants or cake mix
1 egg
Optional: Nuts, cherries, marzipan

Beat together 1 egg and one and half cup warm water.
Mix together dry ingredients and bake for 1 hour at 160/180 degrees.

Aunty Mavis Bread Rolls

4 tablespoon yeast
1 dessertspoon sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup oil
2 cups warm water
6 cups flour
2 1/2 teaspoons salt

4 tablespoons yeast dissolved in desert spoon of sugar.
Add egg beaten in 1/2 cup of oil. Add 2 cups of warm water. Lastly, knead in 6 cups of flour, 2 1/2 teaspoons salt. When well kneaded put in a well oiled baking tin in the fridge to rise overnight. Form into rolls and let rise. Bake in the oven 400F for 12min.