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Bread making & Mexican bun

June 22, 2009 By: Yasmin Category: Bread

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My first wholemeal Graham Bread (too healthy for me !)

The idea of baking bread from scratch always sounds daunting to me (even though my ultimate wish is to be one of those who bakes bread everyday to feed their family). I have attended classes for making bread before, but I guess if we don’t practice then the technique is soon forgotten. Armed with a renewed hope, I enrolled myself in a bread making class at Pastrypro (www.pastrypro.com.my) last Friday. What I’ve discovered is, bread making is not that difficult after all. With all the latest ingredients and technique, all you need is patience.

We learn to bake 3 types of bread – French baguette, Graham Bread and the all-purpose Soft bun. Basically the steps involve in baking bread is :

Measuring the ingredients
Mixing
Fermentation (1st rise)
Scaling & rouding
Intermediate proofing (2nd rise)
Glazing & slashing the loaf
Final proofing (3rd rise)
Baking

For further details on baking bread, hop over to http://breadbaking.about.com/.

I’m giving away the recipe that we used in class for the basic Soft Bun. It’s one of the rich dough type, with high proportion of fat, sugar and eggs. This recipe is very handy, as you can make all sorts of things out of the soft bun. We made Mexican bun, buns with tuna filling and also using hot dogs.

One of the brand used in class is called IREKS, which is being sold at Pastrypro. The recipe below and many other bread recipes, can be found in IREKS website.

SOFT BUN

High protein flour – 500 gm

IREKS soft plus – 5 gm

IREKS wheat sour – 10gm

Instant dry yeast – 15gm

Milk powder – 15 gm

Salt – 10 gm

Sugar – 125 gm

Eggs – 75gm

Water (cold) – 210 to 225 gm

Butter (add after half of the mixing time) – 15 gm

Shortening (add after half of the mixing time) -15 gm

Method :

Mix all ingredients on medium speed using the dough hook, about 8 minutes. No bulk fermentation or first rise is needed, straight away scale into the sizes you want. Round it and let is rest for 15 minutes. Then you can shape it or add any fillings you want. Final proof for 35 minutes. Bake at 180C for around 12 to 15 minutes. Enjoy the sweet aroma in your kitchen and in no time, your buns are ready !

Mexican bun before going into the oven

To make the famous Mexican bun, here’s the recipe for the filling and topping :

Filling :

Skim milk powder 100 gm

Milk powder 100 gm

Sugar 150 gm

Butter 100 gm

Vanilla essence 10gm

Eggs 50 gm

Method -mix all together and fill in the soft bun

Topping :

Flour 200 gm

Sugar 200 gm

Butter 200 gm

Eggs 200 gm

Nescafe powder 5 gm

Mocha essence 10 gm

Method – mix all together and pipe onto the soft bun.

You can read more bread stories in my Flickr on the left sidebar. Hope you’ll find them useful. Thank you Pastrypro and Chef Steven for the excellent class.

3 Responses to “ Bread making & Mexican bun ”

# 1 PG CakeCraft Says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:36 am
hi Yasmin, reading your post on bread making reminded me of the bread making class that i attended way back in 2000. it was a 3 mth, certificate course held at the Culinary Arts Centre, Penang. i often bake croissants and strudels. btw, is ireks soft plus a type of bread softener?
# 2 beldandy Says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:17 am
thank for the recipe kak min.
Saya takut nak buat roti sbb takut kena uli sampai tercabut tangan..hehehehtakde machine power to knead those dough.
# 3 MamaFaMi Says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Geramnya tengok roti tu… slice, pas tu buat garlic bread cicah dengan mushroom soup… pergh… tak nampak orang lalu lalang! Kalau nampak pun, buat buat tak nampak je, kalau tak, kena share nanti! Hihihi… tamak haloba punya manusia! Ahakss.. just joking!