BREADS: Garlic bread and French Bread

This post is  dedicated to my friends and anybody who cant cook, learning to cook or struggling to cook



Garlic Bread

My favourite bread

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• 250 g flour
• ½  tsp salt
• 1 tsp yeast
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 oz butter- melted
• 1 tbs milk powder
• 2 tbs crushed garlic
• ½ an egg
• 3 oz cup water

 1. Mix flour, sugar, yeast, salt, milk powder , eggs, melted butter,

       garlic .

2. Next add water and knead the dough for 10 mins using your palm and dragging it onto the surface .

3. Roll the dough flat and toll it like a Swiss roll and let it rise for 15 mins.

4. Apply beaten eggs on top ,sprinkle with sesame seed(optional)

 bake it  in 180˚ for 15 mins or until the bread is done.

5. Once you take it out. Apply butter on top while the bread is still hot

French bread 

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Same ingredients and method as garlic bread but do not add garlic to this.

HOW I MADE GARLIC BREAD

First I got all the stuff ready: eggs, yeast, butter, milk pwder,measuring spoons.

Next I added all the ingredients into my Kenwood stand mixer and turned on the machine .Its easier than making the dough by hand.



Dough is made .I usually take it out and knead it by hand for a few minutes .

 

Make sure to flour the surface when you are kneading the dough.Next roll the dough flat-but not too thin and roll it like a swiss roll.

The bread brushed with beaten eggs.Sprinkle sesame seed on top.



3 strand braided dough in the oven





Braided bread after its baked



D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S garlic bread......soooooo tasty.
You can cover the bread with foil the last 10 minutes(while its baking) to prevent the bread from turning brown.

A simple way to turn french bread into garlic bread: Just add crushed garlic to softened butter and leave it for about 30 mins or more.The butter will have a garlic flavour.You can spread this on french bread and put the bread in the oven on high heat for abt 5 mins.



Its time for Dinner.Almost 8 'o' clock



 

 

Garlic bread , Stir fried veges, chicken curry and fried fish.Not exactly the perfect combination but everybodyenjoyed this menu. 


I enjoy making bread .
Homemade bread tastes sooooo GOOD.
Try it  



COOKS NOTE: you can turn a plain French bread into a garlic bread by adding crushed garlic to butter and leaving this for a while. Apply this  garlic-butter to French bread and put the buttered bread in the oven for 5 mins on high heat.

Check out you tube for videos on how to make pleated breads(how to shape your bread dough into pleats) and other shapes for your bread .

VIDEOS ON HOW TO KNEAD THE DOUGH

How to knead the dough

VIDEOS ON SHAPING YOUR DOUGH

3 strand braided bread

5 strand braided bread

How to make braided bread with 3, 4, 5 or 6 strands

Shaping the dough

Scoring French Bread