Bread & Pastry

Monday, May 17, 2010

High Grain Wholemeal Bread

The USDA recommends getting at least 16 grams of whole grains during three meals, or 48 grams a day. So just what is it? What is the whole grain anyway?Whole grain is the grain seed in its pure form.Different with refined grains for examples white flour that only contain endosperm,which is the bran and the germ are not used anymore which result in the loss of its vitamins,minerals,fibers,phytonutrients and antioxidant.

Find whole grains in items like oatmeal, popcorn, brown rice, whole wheat breads, sprouted grain products, whole grain breads, and whole grain cereals. Sometimes it's hard to tell if some products are real whole grain products, so the Whole Grains Council created an official symbol called the Whole Grain Stamp. When you see it, you know that the product truly contains all parts of the grain, and in what amounts.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Simple Bread Design-Twist Bread

This design is only a guide for you and in the end,its up to you to dress or turn this bread design to whatever you desire.This design usually used for Cheese Twist Bread,Corn Twist Bread or Tuna Twist Bread.To complete this bread design,you will need 3 pieces of sweet dough.You also can use sour dough if you like however each pieces should not more than 60gm.This is because it can get really big when it proofed.

First you need to roll all the 3 pieces like picture above.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Simple Bread Design-Red Bean Bread

This bread design requires sweet dough because if you use sour dough,the taste will become quite funny.You need a roller and a sharp kitchen knives for cutting.Remember that you can always change the filling anytime if you desire another filling for example lotus paste or chocolate paste.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

My first McDonalds Mega Mac

For fast food lovers especially McDonalds,should familiar with Big Mac but Mega Mac?Well now McDonalds launch its seasonal promotion McDonalds Doubles.It doubles everything from Big Mac,filet-o-fish,McChiken to spicy chiken McDeluxe.Im not a fast food lover but its advertising made me wonders how it taste.With a slogan Size Does Matter and Double the Taste,Double the Enjoyment,i finally decide to give it a shot.

Start Your Own Bakery-Important Things To Do

Starting own bakery business is something that any bakers or patissiers can dream of.People with no experience or skill in making bread or pastry also interested to get involved because of its prospects.Food related business always give steady income and good return not to mention how fast this business can grow.This is based on fact that 61% of American eat breakfast everyday and 32% of them eat out or purchased it at least once a week.This business alone generate $18 billion sales a year in United States.By 2012 the U.S bread and roll market is forecast to have a value of $14.2 billion.How about other region and continent?Well for develop country mostly in South East Asia,bread and pastry considered as alternative for rice because of its mobility and fast serving.Office workers need something simple for lunch to save time especially woman who consider bread to replace rice for dietary purpose.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Culinary-Kitchen Brigade System

What is "culinary" word meaning?The word "culinary" defined as something that related to cooking or kitchens.So,the culinary art is the art of preparing food or dishes.A person who working in the culinary art known as "culinarian".The other word for culinarian that we familiar with is a cook or a chef.This culinary artist working in higher level than ordinary cook which their job is to prepare a certain meals or dishes with proper skill in addition of knowledge in science of food and deep understanding of diet and nutrition

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Simple Bread Design-Sausage Delight

Today i want to show you another simple bread design that i know,sausage delight.What you need is a dough preferably 45gm or 50gm,a roller,sausage and kitchen scissor.

As usual,roll plain the dough using roller to get rid the air that trap inside it.

After the dough ready,put a sausage in the middle like the picture below and roll it,make sure the dough completely covered the sausage

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Food poisoning

Food poisoning definition

Food poisoning is a sickness happen after eating a food that already polluted with germ or chemical sustain.Many case of food poisoning resulted death.Food poisoning causing indigestion,stomach pain,nausea,diarrhoea and fever.How the food poisoning started?Food that been prepared too early and served in room temperature more than four hours.Usually bacteria start active and reproduce itself after four hours the food been cooked.Taking too long to cool a hot dishes before storing in the fridge will resulted food poisoning,meanwhile if the food doesn't cooked with enough temperature to kill the bacteria will cause serious problem.Cross contamination between food that already cook and not also resulted the food poisoning.

Factors that influenced germ and bacteria reproduction

a.Food

Like all other living organism,germ and bacteria also need food to sustain and reproducing.There is several type of food that attract them:

i-high protein food

ii-meat

iii-egg

iv-milk

v-ready to eat food

b.Temperature

Germ and bacteria that causing sickness can lives and reproduce itself in human body temperature (37°C).However germ also can reproduce faster in between 5°C to 62°C.

c.Time

In preferred condition,bacteria reproduce by dividing itself to same portion every 20 to 30 minutes.In continuous reproduction, one cell bacteria can reproduce up to 17 million in eight hours and 1 trillion in ten hours!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Simple Bread Design

As you can see the image,its kind of bread base that you can dress it to whatever you like.You also can use it as pizza base or anything else you desire.I will show you step by step on how you can get that shape.

1-First get yourself a let say 50gm dough.

2-Use roller to plain the dough entirely.This will remove all air trap inside the dough due to the yeast function.

3-Use you hand to roll it like a carpet.

4-Now bend it like in the picture below and cut it in the middle.But be careful not too much.

Now you get shape,put it on a tray and watch it "grow" bigger.You can put some sausage,cheese, mayonnaise and chili sauce or tuna flake and dress it as you wish.