Chinese bread
Bread is made by mixing flour, salt, water, yeast and other basic ingredients to form a dough, and then baking it after proper fermentation and various production techniques. Eggs and cream are also added to make it soft and delicious.
After mastering the basic dough, you can make a variety of breads with different flavors and patterns.
Materials
Bread flour 500g
Yeast 15g
Sugar 100g
Salt 5g
Milk powder 10g
Cool water 260g
Egg
Butter 50g
Bread dough is made from a variety of ingredients. BUTTER 50g
Methods
A: Make in a bread machine
Take the butter out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature. Then put all the ingredients into the bread machine in the order of water first, then flour, then the other ingredients. Use SWEET and press START for 20 minutes. In between, you can use a rubber knife to help the machine knead in the flour evenly. This is not necessary for this recipe. Then stop the program, restart it, and use the same sweet bread mode for another 20 minutes, and let it rise until it is 1.5 times the size of the basic dough. This dough is about 960-970 grams.
B: Kneading by hand
This is a very labor-intensive job, because the dough must rise in order for the bread to be fluffy and tasty. To achieve this by hand, it takes a lot of effort.
1;Mix flour, yeast, sugar and salt in a kneading container
2;Add egg, powdered milk and water to form a smooth dough
3;Transfer the dough to a clean work surface and knead the butter into it
4;Using both hands and your body weight like you would a scrub board to scrub your clothes, you repeatedly knead the dough from the inside out
5;Using your hands and body weight to knead the dough from the inside out
6;Using your hands and body weight you repeatedly knead the dough from the inside out
7; You then knead the dough from the inside out.5;Form the dough into a long ball, hold it by the end, and punch it down until the dough is fully floured, then knead the dough until it is smooth and fully risen.
To test the dough for gluten
Please use your hands to stretch the dough into a thin film shape, see the picture below. If the dough doesn't break easily and is light enough to pass the test, the bread will be soft and tasty.
Western cake
Cake can be said to be an important part of the dessert, but also one of the most popular desserts. Because it not only tastes good, but also indispensable props in some specific atmosphere, like birthday cake, wedding cake and so on. There are many types of cakes, according to the different materials and practices, the more common can be divided into the following categories: sponge cake, chiffon cake, angel cake, heavy cream cake, cheese cake, mousse cake.
1, sponge cake (Sponge Cake): sponge cake is a kind of milk foam cake, the composition of the main body is the eggs, sugar whisked out of the foam and flour combined with the net-like structure. Because the internal organization of the sponge cake has a lot of round holes, similar to the sponge, so called sponge cake. Sponge cake is divided into whole egg sponge cake and egg sponge cake, which is in accordance with the different methods of production to points, whole egg sponge cake is the whole egg whipped and then added to the flour produced; egg sponge cake in the production of the time, the egg whites and yolks are separated from the egg whites and whipped and then mixed with the flour produced.
2, Chiffon Cake (Chiffon Cake): is a relatively common basic cake, is now very popular pastry baking enthusiasts like a kind of cake, such as birthday cake is generally used to do the bottom of the Chiffon Cake, so the Chiffon Cake is considered a more basic cake. The chiffon cake is very similar to the egg sponge cake, the difference is the proportion of ingredients, the novice can also add baking powder and cream of tartar, so the cake is very fluffy organization.
3, Angel Cake (Angel Fool Cake): Angel Cake is also a creamy foam cake, is the egg whisked to produce a fluffy foam, the difference is that the angel cake does not add a drop of grease, even the yolks of the eggs contain fat is also removed, and only use the egg whites to do this cake, so the color of the cake is good refreshing snow-white, so it is known as the angel cake.
4, heavy oil cake (Pound Cake): also known as pound cake, is made with a large amount of butter after beating and then add eggs and flour made of a kind of batter cake. Because it is not like the above types of cake is through the whipped eggs to increase the cake organization of the fluffy, so heavy oil cake in the taste than the above types of cake to some solid, but because of the addition of a large amount of butter, so the taste is very mellow. It is more common to add some fruit or dried fruit to the batter, which can reduce the greasy flavor of the cake.
5, Cheese Cake (Cheese Cake): the phonetic translation can also be called cheesecake, is now more popular a kind of cake. Cheese cake refers to the addition of a large amount of cheese made of cake, generally added to the cheese cake are cream cheese (cream cheese).
Cheese cake is divided into the following types: (1) heavy cheese cake: that is, the amount of cheese added more, generally an 8-inch cheesecake, the amount of cream cheese should be not less than 250 grams. Because the amount of cheese is more, so the taste of heavy cheesecake is more solid, cheese flavor is very heavy, so in the production of more will add some jam to increase the taste. (2) light cheesecake: light cheesecake in the production of cream cheese to add less, but also with whipped egg whites to increase the fluffiness of the cake, powder will also add very little, so light cheesecake to eat the texture will be very soft, melt in the mouth. (3) Frozen cheesecake: is a no-bake cake, will add gelatin and other coagulants in the cheesecake, and then put in the refrigerator until the cake is solidified, because it is not baked, so it will not add powdered ingredients.
6, Mousse Cake (Mousse Cake): is also a no-bake cake, is through the whipped cream, some fruit puree and gelatin coagulants made of frozen cake, usually chiffon cake slices as the bottom.