Mankomos Farmhouse Bread Recipes

Steps:

• In large bowl, dissolve sugar in warm water. Sprinkle in yeast; let stand for 10 minutes or until frothy. Whisk in honey, butter and egg. With wooden spoon, stir in 2 cups (500 mL) of the all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, oats, cornmeal, bran, millet and salt until smooth. Gradually stir in enough of the remaining flour to form slightly sticky dough.
• Turn out onto floured surface; knead for 8 to 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic, dusting with as much of the remaining flour as necessary to prevent sticking. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease all over. Cover with plastic wrap; let rise in warm draft-free place until doubled in bulk, 1-1/2 hours.
• Punch down dough; turn out onto lightly floured surface. Knead into round loaf, stretching dough down all around and pinching underneath to shape. Dust top with flour; place on greased baking sheet. Cover with clean towel; let rise until doubled in bulk, 45 to 60 minutes.
• Using serrated knife, slash shallow grid pattern on top of loaf. Bake in centre of 375°F (190°C) oven for 45 minutes or until golden brown and loaf sounds hollow when tapped on bottom. Remove from pan; let cool on rack.
• Additional Information.
• Bread Machine Crunchy Farmhouse Bread: Choose whole grain setting; let baked loaf cool on rack.
• Bread Machine Fill-Up.
• The order of ingredients going into the bread machine differs from the handmade method. Generally, the machine should be filled as follows, unless, of course, the manufacturer's instructions say otherwise.
• Into pan of 2-lb (1 kg) bread machine, add (in order) wet ingredients such as water, milk, buttermilk, oil, butter, egg, yogurt, honey and syrup. Then add any sugar and salt. Next add dry ingredients such as flour, bran, oats, seeds, cornmeal and millet. Sprinkle yeast over top, without letting yeast touch liquid. Choose appropriate setting.

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast and 1 cup warm water in a large mixing bowl. Let rest 10-15 minutes.
• Add salt, sugar, shortening and 3 1/3 cups warm water.
• Gradually mix in 10 cups of flour. Add up to 2 more cups until dough is no longer sticky.
• Knead for 10 minutes. Cover the bowl and let rise for 1 hour until dough doubles in size.
• Punch down dough, form into 4 loaves, place into loaf pans and let rise again until double in size(about an hour).
• Place in preheated oven at 375 degrees and bake until golden brown (about 35 Minutes).
• This recipe also works well halfed.
• For whole wheat bread, substitute 4 cups of whole wheat flour mixed with 6 to 8 cups of white flour.
• I cool slice and freeze the extra laoves for later.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200C / 392°F.
• Mix all the dry ingredients and then add the butter if using.
• Gradually mix in the water and knead until you have an elastic dough which comes away from the sides of the bowl. If kneading by hand, do so for 10 minutes, 3 minutes with a food mixer.
• Allow to rise in a warm place, covering the bowl with clingwrap until the dough has doubled in size.
• Knead again lightly and place in a bread tin (at this point you can divide the dough if it is too much for one tin).
• Leave to rise again until doubled.
• Bake at 200C/392F for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 180C/356F and bake for a further 45 minutes or so, or until the loaves sound hollow when tipped out and knocked with your knuckles.
• You can use a variety of different flours in this recipe, as long as you end up with 1kg of flour in total.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Prepare a 10-inch cast iron skillet by heating it in the oven for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven, add the butter, let it melt and set aside.
• Put the eggs and corn in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until the corn is slightly smooth. Add the cornmeal, flour, sour cream, sugar, baking powder and salt and pulse until smooth. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and fold in the jalapeno and melted butter.
• Pour the batter into the skillet and bake until golden brown and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Serve warm or room temperature.

Steps:

• Add ingredients to bread machine in order directed by manufacturer.
• Add sesame seeds at the beep or appropriate time for your machine.
• Cycle: Light, white, no timer.

Steps:

• Peel and boil about 6 small potatoes in salted water in a small saucepan. In the meantime, measure the milk, margarine, sugar and salt together. When the potatoes have cooked through, drain them and mash in the milk mixture. Transfer into a food processor and pulse until smooth. By now, the mixture should have cooled to about 110 degrees. Sprinkle in the yeast and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Place the flour in the bowl of a stand mixer and attach the dough hook. Pour in the potato mixture and run the mixer for 10 minutes. Coat the dough ball with half of the olive oil and roll it around in the bowl. Cover the bowl with a moist cloth and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes or until doubled.
• Using a floured surface, knead the dough about a dozen times; coat it with the remaining olive oil and return it to the bowl. Cover with the moist cloth and let it rise again in a warm place for about 30 minutes or until doubled.
• Use cooking spray to coat two loaf pans. Punch the dough down, form it into two separate loaves and set it into the pans. Cover it and let it rise one final time in the warm place for about 15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Mix the honey and water together and brush it over the surface of the loaves. Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until a rich golden brown, and hollow sounding when tapped. Cool for 5 minutes, then remove from pans to cool completely.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the milk, oil, honey, oats, whole wheat flour, cornmeal, salt and 2 cups bread flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining bread flour to form a soft dough., Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. , Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into thirds. Shape into loaves. Place in three greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes. , Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.