Beautiful Braided Buckweat Bread |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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hhaha try saying that 10 times realy fast!! its alot easier to bake then to say, but its sweet and buttery ! Ingredients:
1 cup whole milk |
1 packet dry active yeast |
3 tbsp buckwheat honey |
3 egg yolks |
1 teaspoon salt |
1 stick unsalted sweet butter |
1-4 cup sugar |
2 1/2 cups sifted unbleached ap flour |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
2 teaspoons baking soda |
-more flour for dusting |
-an egg white if you like a crunchy crust |
-more milk to make shinny |
Directions:
1. heat milk until 100* add honey and yeast let stand for a while
2. melt butter and add sugar, let it kina caramel and brown up
3. place egg yolks in a large bowl with salt
4. sift flour with baking soda and powder
5. add butter mix to eggs and then add yeast mix-get all your honey it settles down to the bottom-
6. now pour all flour into yeast butter and eggs just until it combinds with no clumps
7. let stand on hot stove for 30 min
8. place on floured suface after rising it will look very bubbley and will smell of yeasty buttery goodness
9. but you flour the ball and cut into small long stripes make sure you have an even amount
10. take two strings on doung and twist them together place on a buttered cookie sheet and let them rise again either with egg white for a more chrunchy crust or milk like i did for a dark shinny crust thats not very crunchy more chewy
11. bake at 350 for 20 min dont open oven until after 20 min then look ans tap on top to make sure it sound hollow not dull and like a lump of dough
12. these are perfect with honey butter or some good pasta!!
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