Saturday, April 18, 2020

Buns for Breakfast

Buns

Due to the implementation of circuit breaker and with the increased number of confirmed cases, plus the hot weather, I am baking buns for breakfast for the next few days to reduce my trips outside.

Thinking of doing this once a week, will see how..

Here is the recipe extracted from the book 妙手烘焙 - 奶油卷。
I am using the hand knead method, good that this is a small portion and do not need machine.






Here is the recipe:
Bread flour 160g
Cake flour 40g (or any low protein flour)
Yeast 3g
Sugar 30g
Milk power 1 tbsp
Fresh milk 50g
Water 50g (the original recipe call for 100g of fresh milk, I don't want to be so milky)
Egg 30g
Salt 1/2 tsp

Method:
1. Mix Bread flour and cake flour together in a big bowl. Pour 1/4 portion of it into another bowl and mix with salt.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients to the big bowl and mix well.
3. Then add 1/4 portion of the flour mixture (with the salt) into step 2. This will be a sticky dough.
4. Hand knead for about 15 minutes till it become a shiny dough with window pane.
5. Rest for 50 minutes to 1 hour. (For hot weather, 50 minutes or less should be ok)
6. Divide into 6 portions. Rest for 30 minutes
7. Rest for 30 minutes.
8. Preheat the oven at 170C for 10 minutes
9. Brush egg wash on top of the dough and bake for 17 to 20 minutes at 170C.

Da lah!! Freshly baked buns are ready for consumption!!.





Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Yutzu Swiss Roll (柚子蛋糕卷)




I will start my swiss roll fave.. tried out my favorite yutzu sauce for filling as well as the cake itself..

The recipe I am refer to Yuzu chffion cake

The filling itself I use cream puff custard sauce [here] and replace the sugar with the same amount of  yutzu sauce..

The difference between chiffon and swiss roll, the egg whites need only to beat until soft peak, if the egg white is too hard, the cake might break easily upon rolling.

But my rolling skill sucks.. have to practice more..

Next one on my to do list is Thai tea swiss roll.

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Tom Yum Fish

I will record those dishes so that when I glance through them, I will have an idea what to cook during the weekends..

1. Chop lemongrass, galangal, kafir lime leaves finely.
2. Tear few pieces of kafir lime leaves.
3. Marinate for 2 to 3 hours
4. Pan fried the fish with some water, so that the ingredients will become gravy.

Though the appearance is not nice, but it is very appetizing and good to go with rice..








Saturday, September 30, 2017

Mooncake Galore

It is time to enjoy mooncake.. and time to bake mooncakes too..






Sunday, March 5, 2017

Agar Agar Workshop - Cocktail Cakes and Peach








Lesson 2 - Spicy Tapioca and Chicken Wings




Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Lesson 1 - Sour Sweet Pork Belly and Rice Kueh

Actually I din try for both, hahaha.. the process of making rice kueh is super tedious.  Not going to do it.

The sauce for sour sweet pork belly can be used for fish / chicken, yet to try.