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18. Basic recipes
White bread dough
500g white bread making flour– 300ml warm water – 2 ackets dried yeast – 10g or 1 ts salt
Put the flour, salt and baker’s yeast in the bowl of the food rocessor fitted with the metal blade.
Run at s eed 2, and a few seconds later start ouring in the warm water through the feed tube in the lid. When the
dough forms a ball (a roximately 40 seconds), sto the food rocessor. Leave the dough to rise in a warm lace
until it doubles in volume. Then, work the dough to sha e it into a ball and lace it on your greased, floured baking
sheet. Leave it to rise again. Preheat your oven at Th.8/240°C (UK gas mark 9). Once the dough has doubled in
volume, ut it in the oven and lower the tem erature to Th.6/180° (UK gas mark 4). Bake for about 30 min. Put a
bowl of water in the over while baking to hel the crust to form.
Method usi g UK dried yeast.
Use strong bread flour. Substitute the bakers yeast with 2 teas oons of Easy Bake or Fast Action dried yeast and
add to the bowl with the flour, before adding the warm water. After rocessing, just sha e the dough into a
ball and then leave to rise for about 1 hour in a warm lace until doubled in size. Sha e and cook as directed above.
Pizza dough
150g white bread making flour– 90ml warm water – 2 tables oons olive oil – 1/2 acket dried yeast – salt
Put the flour, salt and baker’s yeast in the bowl of the food rocessor fitted with the metal blade.
Run at s eed 2, and a few seconds later start ouring in the warm water and olive oil through the feed tube in the
lid. When the dough forms a ball (15 to 20 seconds), sto the food rocessor. Leave the dough to rise in a warm
lace until it doubles in volume. Preheat your oven at Th.8/240°C (UK gas mark 9). Roll out the dough to a 28cm
circle and add the to ings of your choice: tomato izza sauce and onions, mushrooms, ham, mozzarella, etc. Add a
few anchovies and black olives to your izza, s rinkle on a bit of oregano and grated gruyere cheese, then drizzle a
few dro s of olive oil all around. Place the re ared izza on your greased, floured baking sheet. Bake for 15 to 20
min, kee ing an eye on it as it bakes.
Method usi g UK dried yeast.
Use strong bread flour. Substitute the bakers yeast with 1/2 teas oon of Easy Bake or Fast Action dried yeast and
add to the bowl with the flour, before adding the warm water. After rocessing, just sha e the dough into a loaf
and then leave to rise for about 1 hour in a warm lace until doubled in size. Cook as directed above.
Shortcrust pastry
200g flour or lain flour – 100 g softened butter – 50ml cold water– a inch of salt
Put the flour, salt and butter in the bowl of the food rocessor fitted with the metal blade.
Run at s eed 2 for a few seconds, then our the water in through the feed tube in the lid. Let it run until the dough
forms a ball (after about 20 seconds). Leave the dough to chill in a cool lace for at least 1 hour before rolling it out..
Use to make ies, flans, fruit tarts and jam tarts.
For a less rich, more crumby astry you can substitute the butter with 100 g block margarine or 50 g block
margarine and 50 g lard. Use the margarine and lard straight from the fridge cut into 2 cm ieces and rocess on
s eed 2 until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs, then add the water as directed above.
Crepe or Pa cake batter (i the bowl with the metal blade or i the ble der)
250g flour or lain flour – 625ml milk – 3 eggs – 30g caster sugar – 100 ml sunflower oil – 1 tables oon
orange blossom water or other flavouring (o tional)
With the bowl: Put all the ingredients: flour, milk, eggs, sugar and flavouring, in the bowl of the food rocessor fitted
with the metal blade. Run at s eed 1 for 20 seconds, then switch to s eed 2 for 1 min.
With the blender: Place all the ingredients exce t the flour in the blender. Run at s eed 2 and, after a few seconds,
remove the ca and gradually s oon the flour through the central o ening in the lid of the blender. Mix for
1 1/2 min.