#flower bread

[lavenderfairiez]

EVERYONE LOOK AT THE BREAD I MADE TODAY

[tokkeki]

[floramama]

Bread made with flower yeast!

For a long time I had flower yeast in mind but never had a chance to meet anyone who knew how to make it. I heard many of my elders talking about bakeries having flower yeast bread in their childhood.Like many beautiful things we take for granted, the flower bread is also disappeared.Recently one of my friends mentioned me someone who was experimenting on making flower yeast breads and documenting it online. I instantly took a look at her site and started experimenting myself. Now I keep telling everyone about this new experience and everyday I hear of new experiments around me!

While reading Walden, I was interested in the fact that David Thoreau was carrying sour yeast with him and he was talking about how it’s hard to carry it around. If he knew he could make bread with the flowers around him in nature,he’d be free of the burdens of carrying his yeast!

So here’s how it’s made:

Collect a handful of edible flowers, put them in a jar with 2 cups of water. Place a weight on top of them so they’re not in contact with air (they can get spoiled) and wait until bubbles are formed on the flowers (this might change according to the temperature, it can be 1-2 days).

Strain the flowers and use the liquid to make the dough. Put enough flour and mix it for 5-10 minutes.The dough will be a bit sticky.You can put some molasses or honey in it too, to make it sweeter and to quicken the leavening process.

Then wait until it doubles. It takes a bit long time, because the yeast is not as strong as the other ones.It might take up to 10-15 hours.

Bake it as you bake bread, and you’ll have sweet, tasty lovely flower bread! The taste of the flowers are faintly tasteable. When I made it with oregano flowers there was a little bit of smell and taste of it.

Now, spread the word and start experimenting!

The source is here (in Turkish)

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Çiçek mayasından ekmek! Ne zamandır çiçek mayası aklımda.Ama bir türlü nasıl yapıldığını bilen birine rastlamamıştım. Geçenlerde bir arkadaşım bir kaynaktan bahsetti, ben de hemen okuyup, uygulamaya giriştim! Şimdi etrafımdaki herkese bu mucizevi mayayı anlatıyorum ve hergün etrafta farklı bir deney yapılıyor!

Walden’ı okurken David Thoreau’nun yanında ekşi maya taşıması dikkatimi çekmişti ve mayayı taşımanın zorluklarından bahsediyordu. Ama doğada her an kendi mayasını yapabileceğini bilseydi hiç maya taşıma zorluğuna katlanmazdı!

Işte böyle yapılıyor:

Bir avuç yenebilir çiçeği veya kekik, melisa gibi aromatik bitki yaprağını 2 bardak suyla birlikte bir kavanoza koyun, çiçekler havayla temas etmesin diye üzerine bir ağırlık koyun ve kapağını kapatıp beklemeye koyulun! Bekleme süresi 12 ile 24 saat arası değişebilir. Çiçeklerin üzerinde baloncuklar belirince bakteriler çalışıyor ve maya olmuş demektir!

Suyu bir kaba süzüp, üzerine un ilave ederek yoğurun.Hamur biraz yapışkan oluyor, unu yedire yedire yapın.

Üzerine tülbent örtüp hamur 2 katına çıkıncaya kadar bekleyin.

Benimki -hava sıcak olmasına rağmen- çok yavaş kabardı. Sabah yaptıysam akşam pişirdim.Daha fazla da beklenebilir tabii.

Büyük parçanın yanına minik ekmekçikler yaptım, onları yemesi çok daha zevkli oldu.

Kaynak:Şule Seda Ay

[tokkeki]

フラワーブレッド

[bewitchingkitchen]

FLOWER SHAPED DINNER ROLLS

These adorable rolls popped on my Instagram feed, and I fell in love with them so hard that I mixed the dough right away. To be precise, 20 minutes after watching the reel (click here for it). I consider it a work in progress, for reasons I will discuss in the comments… FLOWER-SHAPED DINNER ROLLS(from Joyce Mrad) 325g flour150mL slightly warm milk 1 egg50g butter, softened1 tsp instant yeast30g…

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[tastyfoods]

Chicken Bread | Flower Bread Recipe | Tasty Foods. This Chicken Stuffed Bread Or Flower Bread is perfect snack for your high tea parties. A simple filling made of shredded chicken and herbs along with aromatic spices, which is wrapped in a soft homemade bread dough. Serve it as a tea time snack or as a party appetizer.

[basicallybaking]

Star/Flower Bread

Recipe is from Sally’s Baling Addiction.  The end result is very soft, moist, and fluffy, but the recipe as written has too much liquid in the batter, and the mixing time isn’t long enough. I ended up switching from the paddle to the dough hook, adding about 3 tbsp flour, upp-ing the speed after five minutes, and mixing for about 11 more minutes. I did the cinnamon sugar version, like in the video, i.e. softened butter, cinnamon, sugar, and added some cardamom too. Also rounded the four quarters of the dough and then let them rest for five minutes before rolling out. rolling out is pretty hard because the dough is sticky and soft. In the video Sally shows the twisting ending with the cut sides at a 90 degree angle to the baking sheet (horizontal), which is what I did, and it doesn’t result in those tapered ends to make a star shape (more like a flower). I think that maybe if you angle the cut ends at 45 degree angle to the baking sheet maybe you would get that tapered edge. 

[fullcravings]

Nutella Flower Bread