Gourmet Culinaire and Cuisine

Mexicans love their bread recipes and perhaps you have been lucky enough to try some authentic Mexican bread. Cornbread is perhaps the best known type of Mexican bread and this goes beautifully with a Mexican soup recipe or stew recipe. It is perfect for dunking in chili con carne and equally good served as a dessert with honey poured over it.Bolillos are one of the most popular breads sold in Mexican bakeries. This bread is baked on the bottom of the oven, to give it a crunchy, thick crust. Puerquitos are fun, piglet-shaped breads made with a piglet-shaped cookie cutter. The main ingredients in this bread are milk, sugar, molasses, and wheat flour.Sweet Mexican Breads and PastriesFeite is a sugary bread, made by alternating butter and dough layers. When it is baked, the moisture trapped between the layers fluffs the feite up. Pan fino is always found in a Mexican .. more»

Everyone loves the aroma of homemade bread in their house but with the busy lives we all lead, no one can spare hours it takes to make bread from scratch. However, with the advent of no knead bread popularized by Jim Lahey, all this has changed.This amazingly tasty and easy to make herb and cheese bread requires only 5 minutes of preparation the night before and 10 minutes on the day of bread baking. In between all that, you just let the bread rest and allow the yeast to slowly do its thing. You heard right, folks: all you do is mix the ingredients together, let it rest overnight, put it into your baking pan, let rise and bake. You never have to break a sweat.This recipe has some whole grain in it for added depth of flavour and healthfulness. I recommend you make the dough after dinner so that .. more»

The basic ingredients are the same for most white breads, which includes flour, water, sugar, salt, some type of fat, and yeast. The amount of each ingredient is important to the quality of the bread, just as the recipe calls for.Flour and water are typically used in a 3:1 ratio. For example, three cups of flour and about one cup of water make up the major ingredients of a large loaf of white bread. Flour should be bread flour, a kind of flour that has had no leavening agents added to it. All purpose flour is more suited to baking cakes and the like, not for making bread. Of course, be sure to store your flours in a cool, dry place. Water should be cool, tap water. If it's hot, refrigerated water should be used. Adding water that's too warm will cause the yeast to act too quickly, which in .. more»