60 Minute Mini Breads Food

60-MINUTE HOMEMADE HERB BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375ºF.
• In a large bowl or the bowl for a standing mixer, whisk 4 cups of flour and the rest of the dry ingredients together.
• Whisk milk, olive oil, and egg together. Pour into dry mix and start to combine.
• While the dry ingredients and milk mixture combine, slowly pour in the water.
• The dough should be slightly tacky. It will clean the sides of the bowl but stick to the bottom of the bowl. Add more flour, if needed.
• Once dough is the correct consistency, knead for about 5 minutes until the texture is smooth and elastic. You should be able to stretch the dough a bit without it breaking.
• Cover the dough and let rest in the mixing bowl or on the counter for 15 minutes.
• After the dough has rested, form it however you'd like.
• To make a braid, separate it into 3 pieces and lay them flat on a lined or greased cookie sheet. Starting at the top, bring the outside strand over the middle strand, so it becomes the new middle strand. Repeat with the opposite side. Repeat this pattern until the whole loaf is braided.
• Pinch and tuck under both of the ends.
• Cover and let rest 15 more minutes.
• Bake on a lined or greased cookie sheet for 20-25 minutes, until the top is golden brown. The internal temperature should register between 205-210 degrees F if you prefer to use a thermometer.
• Brush top of baked bread with melted butter and let cool.

BREAD MACHINE 60 MINUTE WHITE BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Add ingredients to clean bread machine pan in the order listed (unless your machine requires dry ingredients to be at the bottom of the pan, in which case reverse the order).
• 2. Set machine to Rapid Bake or Express Bake (NOT Quick - see IMPORTANT note below) or whichever cycle will process yeast bread in 2 hours or less. Start the machine.
• 3. Check bread occasionally to make sure the machine is doing what it's supposed to be doing. Enjoy the smell of freshly baking bread. When machine indicates bread is done, follow its directions for removing the loaf, then cool on wire rack until cool enough to handle, then "hack off a gobbet," butter liberally and enjoy!
• 4. VARIATIONS: Variation #1 For an Italian flavor, use extra virgin olive oil as the fat in this recipe, and add 1 - 2 tsp ground rosemary* with the flour (I mix it in one of the cups of flour before adding it to the pan, but it's probably not necessary to do that). I have had some issues with the bread rising less due to the addition of rosemary, but others have not noticed this, so experiment and see how it works for you. * You can use whole dried rosemary leaves if you don't have ground, but I find that they tend to feel like pine needles in the mouth and people spit them out instead of enjoying their delightful flavor. Using fresh leaves will prevent this from happening, just be sure to increase the measurement by 2 (meaning 3 times the original amount). Fresh herbs take up more space than dried so you need to use a larger measure when going the fresh route. Likewise, when substituting dried herbs instead of fresh, you need to use only 1/3 the amount of dried compared to the fresh. Generally, because 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon, I substitute teaspoons for tablespoons when switching between dried and fresh herbs.
• 5. Variation #2 If you really want to step things up you can add some minced/crushed or dried garlic and/or chopped olives to this bread (maybe 1 - 3 cloves fresh OR 1/4 - 3/4 tsp garlic ~powder~, NOT garlic salt which has more salt than garlic. And around 1/4c - 1/2c chopped olives, drained† [some people put olives in whole and let the machine "chop" them, but I've never done it]), but if you add the olives you may need to slightly reduce the water measurement due to the moisture added by the olives. If you aren't planning to do anything special with this loaf feel free to experiment, but I wouldn't chance it if you're making it to give as a gift or to take to someone else's dinner. † You can also use undrained olives, but since the amount of liquid varies between cans, you should drain the can into your measuring cup, then top off with water. Also, the olive "juice" will be pretty salty, so you may want to add less salt with the dry ingredients.
• 6. IMPORTANT: Express or Rapid cycles are NOT the same as quick bread cycles. Express or Rapid cycles are only to be used with specially developed yeast bread recipes. They do not even work well with normal yeast bread recipes without altering the recipe. Quick breads are breads that use baking soda and/or baking powder as the leavening agent, not yeast. Quick breads do not use kneading, whereas yeast breads (with a few exceptions) require it. Since the turn of the 21st century, bread machines often have both a Rapid/Express cycle as well as a Quick bread cycle. Therefore, make sure you are using the correct cycle for your recipe! (There are a few yeast bread recipes that augment with baking soda/powder, or vice versa. I have absolutely no experience with these except to know they exist. I don't recommend using these types of recipes in a bread machine unless you are already very familiar with the recipe and believe it compatible with your particular bread machine.)

60-MINUTE MINI BREADS

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine 2 cups flour, sugar, salt and yeast. In a saucepan, heat the water, milk and butter to 120 degrees F-130 degrees F. Add to dry ingredients; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 4 minutes. Do not let rise. Divide in half. Roll each portion into an 8-in. x 5-in. rectangle. Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting with a short side; pinch seam to seal. Place, seam side down, in two greased 5-3/4-in. x 3-in. x 2-in. loaf pans. Fill a 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan with 1 in. of hot water. Set loaf pans in water. Cover and let rise for 15 minutes. Remove loaf pans from the water bath. Bake at 400 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.

60 MINUTE ROLLS

Steps:

• 1. Mix the yeast, 2 Tbsp sugar, and the warm water in a 2 cup glass measuring cup or small bowl. Set aside to proof (not only starts the yeast working, but you will know your water was not too hot or your yeast dead, as well).
• 2. In a medium saucepan, heat the milk and the butter/oleo. DO NOT LET BOIL; you just want it warm.
• 3. Beat the 3 eggs, 2/3 cup sugar, and the salt together with a mixer set on medium for about 2 minutes.
• 4. Add the milk/oleo mixture and stir. Make sure this is not too hot or else you'll end up cooking the eggs.
• 5. Add the yeast mixture and stir.
• 6. Attach the dough hook to your mixer. Slowly add the flour and mix until a stiff dough forms.
• 7. The dough will pull away from the side of the bowl. You may or may not need all the flour. Sometimes it takes more, sometimes less (no idea why). IF MIXING BY HAND, ADD FLOUR UNTIL A STIFF STICKY DOUGH FORMS. EMPTY BOWL ONTO A FLOURED SURFACE AND WORK/KNEAD IN FLOUR UNTIL A SMOOTH DOUGH FORMS.
• 8. Grease whatever pan you will be baking in, be it a loaf pan or a 13X9 cake pan. Form your dough into either 2 loaves of bread or a bunch of rolls (depends on how big you make them) and set aside in a warm, draft-free place to rise. Cover with a damp dishtowel for more draft protection.
• 9. When the rolls/bread has doubled in size, bake in a 375 degree oven for 15-20 minutes until the tops are brown.
• 10. Bread is done when you thump the top with a knuckle and it sounds hollow.