Saturday, April 18, 2009

Squaw bread recipe


Is it aquick bread or a yeast bread? Sweet or salted bread? There's no need to decide. This squaw bread recipe is all these things together. I tried to find out why it's called squaw bread and where it comes from, but surprisingly enough, there's really little information in the web.
This recipe is for a fairly big loaf of squaw bread.
475ml (1 pint) water
25g (2 tbsp) of fresh yeast, or 14g (1 tbsp) active dry yeast
85ml (2 fl oz) vegetable oil
60ml (4 tbsp) honey
70g (5 tbsp) brown sugar
85ml (2 fl oz) milk
35g (2 1/2 tbsp) raisins
340g (1 1/2 cup) all-purpose flour
340g (1 1/2 cup) whole wheat flour
155g (10 tbsp) rye flour
15g (1 1/2 tbsp) salt
30g (3 tbsp) cornmeal
Put the water in the microwave for 30 seconds or until warm, add the yeast and stir until it bubbles. Add the oil, honey, sugar and milk, and stir until everything mixes well.
In a bowl mix together the flours with the salt and the raisins. Stir again the yeast mix and add it a little at the time to the flours.
I made this bread as a no-kneading bread, so make sure the dough is wet enough to be worked in the bowl.
Cover with clingfilm and let it raise for 1-2 hours until it doubles in size.

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