Recipe:
John’s Buns White
serves:
25
Ingredients:
Flour
Salt
Olive oil
Water (handwarm) Yeast
2 kg
45 g
100 g
1 l
100 g
Method:
• Mix olive oil, water and yeast together and wisk
• Put all other ingredients in the dough maker and mix while dry
• Add the liquid mix to the dry mix and knid the dough until half sticky
(low speed, at least 45 minutes, so plenty of air enters the dough)
• Keep some extra flour at hand if necessary to chuck in a handful
• Take out the dough, knid to a big ball and cover with a wet towel
• First rise: 40 minutes under a wet towel (on a table top, room temperature)
• Take the towel off the doughball and slap it once with both hands as if it were a black woman’s bottom. (this to push the air out)
• Cut the ball in portions, roll and distribute on baking trays (leave enough space, portions around 45g)
• Second rise: 15 min, oven 30°C
• Take the trays out, and cut in the doughballs for baking (just slice in gently but firmly, about 1 cm deep, all the way diagonal). This will allow the dough to open up during baking.
• Put a deep tray on the bottom of a pre-heated oven (220°C).
• Put the baking trays with the dough in the oven, and before closing, chuck in the bottom tray a dozen of ice-cubes
• Quickly close the oven, and bake the buns for about 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown (white buns) or dessert coloured (brown buns)