Asking Mum for a Recipe
Asking my mum for a recipe is like listening to a complex manual on coding or magic realism audio book.
Had my mom been a teacher she'd have excelled in teaching subjects that require discussion and debate but she'd have made a terrible teacher in life skills, the practical part.
This week I wanted to bake buns as means of saving some breakfast money and taking a break from muesli and whole-grain breakfast. Sometimes we all crave a bit of granny's or mommy's freshly baked buns and pretzels. So, instead of searching online for a recipe I called mum and asked her for the recipe. Mum was a bit confusing on the phone giving me two options for the same recipe and putting the recipe together seemed like a jigsaw puzzle with lots of questions of when do you use what, how do you do that and so on. After 10 minutes on the phone I had the recipe with the sound advice to make only a third of it. My mum is a master of small quantities.
I'm not a novice in the kitchen, yet I didn't know that the recipe was so simple and that buns were so easy to make.
Here's what you need:
Mix the ingredients and shape the dough. Let it prove for 10-15 minutes. Divide it in equal parts and shape each part in a bun. Arrange the buns in a well oiled baking tray. Egg wash the buns and spice them up with some sea salt, cumin or sesame. Add pieces of margarine or butter on each bun. Let them prove for 30-40 minutes and bake them at 180C for 15-17 minutes. Eat and enjoy!
I might have missed my yoga class, but baking buns proved a better exercise for the day.
Also, next time I'll ask mum for a recipe, I'll ask her to type it out.
Had my mom been a teacher she'd have excelled in teaching subjects that require discussion and debate but she'd have made a terrible teacher in life skills, the practical part.
This week I wanted to bake buns as means of saving some breakfast money and taking a break from muesli and whole-grain breakfast. Sometimes we all crave a bit of granny's or mommy's freshly baked buns and pretzels. So, instead of searching online for a recipe I called mum and asked her for the recipe. Mum was a bit confusing on the phone giving me two options for the same recipe and putting the recipe together seemed like a jigsaw puzzle with lots of questions of when do you use what, how do you do that and so on. After 10 minutes on the phone I had the recipe with the sound advice to make only a third of it. My mum is a master of small quantities.
I'm not a novice in the kitchen, yet I didn't know that the recipe was so simple and that buns were so easy to make.
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Here's what you need:
| Ingredients 2 eggs 1/2 l milk 1 turkish coffe cup oil 2tsp salt 1kg flour 2 yeast (regular or dry) 3 tsp sugar 1 backing powder | Time 2 7min tracks or a short podcast. 1/2 an episode or a full sit-com episode for the dough to prove 1 longer podcast on a more serious subject while you shape the dough or music of choice 1 episode of your favourite tv series while the buns a prooving before baking 1/2 an episode while they are baking or you can listen to a 15 min music piece and tidy up the kitchen. |
Mix the ingredients and shape the dough. Let it prove for 10-15 minutes. Divide it in equal parts and shape each part in a bun. Arrange the buns in a well oiled baking tray. Egg wash the buns and spice them up with some sea salt, cumin or sesame. Add pieces of margarine or butter on each bun. Let them prove for 30-40 minutes and bake them at 180C for 15-17 minutes. Eat and enjoy!
I might have missed my yoga class, but baking buns proved a better exercise for the day.
Also, next time I'll ask mum for a recipe, I'll ask her to type it out.
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