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Make Your Own Elegant Hamburger Buns
In Beef, Beef Dishes, Bread Recipes, Eggs, Elegant Cook, Elegant Cookery, Elegant Cooking, elegant cuisine, Elegant Food, Home Cooking on 04/07/2010 at 6:00 amHamburger Buns Made at Home are Superior to the Store-Bought Variety
Hamburger Buns Ready for Outdoor Barbecue, Photo Copyright M-J de Mesterton 2009
M-J’s Elegant Hamburger Bun Recipe
Ingredients:
• 2 tablespoons of active dry yeast
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of warm water (110° to 115°)—hotter water will kill the yeast
• 1/3 cup of vegetable oil (do not use canola oil, which tastes fishy in baked goods; peanut, corn or pure vegetable oils are preferred)
• 1/4 cup of sugar, any variety
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 3 to 3-1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
Directions:
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in the warm water. Add oil and sugar; let stand for 5 minutes. Then, add the egg, salt, and flour.
Turn onto a floured surface; knead for about four minutes, until smooth and elastic, adding flour as needed. Form the dough into a ball, cover, and let it rise for ten minutes. Divide the dough into 12 flat, round pieces. Place 3 inches apart on buttered baking sheets.
Cover and let rise for 30 minutes. Bake on top oven rack at 400° for 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Monitor closely to prevent burning. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. This recipe makes twelve hamburger buns. For dinner rolls, do not flatten but shape your twelve dough pieces into balls.
Turn onto a floured surface; knead for about four minutes, until smooth and elastic, adding flour as needed. Form the dough into a ball, cover, and let it rise for ten minutes. Divide the dough into 12 flat, round pieces. Place 3 inches apart on buttered baking sheets.
Cover and let rise for 30 minutes. Bake on top oven rack at 400° for 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Monitor closely to prevent burning. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. This recipe makes twelve hamburger buns. For dinner rolls, do not flatten but shape your twelve dough pieces into balls.
~~Copyright M-J de Mesterton, Elegant Survival 2008
How to Make Cake-Balls
In Entertaining on a Shoestring on 29/06/2009 at 9:04 amI’m sure this takes some skill and patience, but making cake-balls, which are enjoying extreme popularity in many venues, is explained comprehensively in the Dallas Morning News.
Editor’s Note: I like to use home-made cake. There are a couple of recipes at the Elegant Survival main site.
Elegant Party “Champagne”: Cristalino Brut from Spain
In affordable Champagne, Champenoise, Elegant Brut from Spain, elegant cuisine, Elegant Entertaining, elegant living on a shoestring, elegant survival, the original elegant living on a shoestring on 29/09/2008 at 4:46 pm
Cristalino Brut from Spain: Inexpensive Substitute for French Champagne
