Breads and Muffins: the recipes
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Breads and Muffins: the recipes
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Applesauce
Oat Muffins
Cranberry Muffins
Green
Chili and Cheese Cornbread
Bran Muffins 'n Jam
Red
Lobster's Garlic Cheese Biscuits
Dilly Cheese Bread
Pepperoni
Pizza Bread (bread maker)
Banana Bread
Buttermilk
Cheese Bread (bread maker)
Zucchini Bread
Basic
White Bread (bread maker)
Focaccia
French
Bread (bread maker)
Focaccia
Just got the Focaccia craze!! (That's Italian flat bread) I got a new bread machine for Christmas, which we neglected to notice makes 2lb. loaves, and there are just the two of us now. I have more bread crumbs and cubes than we will ever use (even if I make bread pudding every week.) I can do 1/2 a loaf of Foccacia on the dough cycle, and then finish off in the oven. I am going to try this with other recipes too. This is the whole recipe version that I cut in half. It's more than a bread, it's a meal - chewy and flavorable. It's wonderful!!
1 c.+1 T. water
3 c. bread flour
2 T. powdered milk
3 1/2 T. sugar
1 t. salt
3 T. butter
2 t. yeast
1/2 c. chopped sun dried tomatoes (I make my
own)
2 t. crushed rosemary
Place ingredients in bread machine pan in order
listed. Set to dough cycle and start the machine. When the
cycle is done, take it our and knead a couple times by hand. Place in a
oiled bowl, turning to coat. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a
warm place for 15 minutes.
Oil a 9x13" glass dish and sprinkle with corn
meal. Stretch out dough to fit pan. Make some indentions in
the dough with your fingers. Brush top surface with a little oil,
cover and let rise 30 minutes in that warm place again.
1 t. garlic salt
1/3 c. freshly grated parmesan
Sprinkle with garlic salt and parmesan.
Bake at 400* for 15-18 minutes until nicely browned. Cool slightly
and cut into squares for serving.
Red Lobster's Garlic Cheese
Biscuits
Got this from the internet at Top Secret Recipes and Copy Cat Recipes. . . Austin begged me to figure out how to make these. He says they are 'wonderful'!!
2C. bisquick
2/3c.milk
1/2c (2oz.) cheddar cheese, shredded
1/4c. butter melted
1/4t. garlic, minced
Heat oven to 450*. Mix bisquick, milk, cheese
until a soft dough forms; beat vigorously 30 sec. Drop dough by spoonsful
onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes or until golden
brown. Mix butter and garlic, brush over warm biscuits before removing
from cookie sheet. Serve warm.
Makes 10-12 biscuits
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Bran Muffins 'n Jam
This is the first muffin recipe I kept. Older neighbors always love it. A touch of that sweet that I don't ordinarily do.
Makes 8 muffins
2/3c. flour
2T. sugar
2 1/2t. baking powder
1/4t. salt
1 egg, slightly beaten
3/4c. milk
3 T. shortening, melted
1 1/2c. 40% Bran Flakes
2-3T. jam or marmalade
Mix first 4 ingredients. Combine egg milk
and add to flour mixture; then add shortening and mix only enough to dampen
flour. Fold in cereal. Fill muffin cups 1/3'd full. Spoon
1t. jam onto batter (not to get to the sides). Top with remaining batter.
Bake at 425* 15-20 minutes. Serve
warm.
Cranberry Muffins
1 3/4c. all-purpose flour
1 1/2c. cornmeal
1/2c. sugar
6t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1 1/2c. milk
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1/3c. vegetable oil (or try the reduced way with
1/3c. applesauce)
1 1/2c. cranberries, rinsed and dried
Combine dry ingredients. Add eggs, milk
and oil. Stir to make a smooth batter; gently stir in cranberries.
Fill well greased (or paper lined) muffin pan to 2/3's full.
Bake at 425* for 15-20 minutes.
Serve warm.
Some
chopped almonds are a nice crunch.
Green Chili and Cheese Cornbread
Bon Appetit, July 1989, page 78.
1/2 c. butter, room temperature
1/2 c. (or less) sugar
4 eggs
4 oz. mild green chilies, seeded and chopped
1 lb. creamed corn
1/2 c. (1 1/2 oz) grated Monteray Jack cheese
1/2 c. (1 1/2 oz) grated cheddar cheese
1 c. flour
1 c. yellow cornmeal
4 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
Grease and flour a 9x13" baking pan. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Mix in chilies, cheese and corn. Combine dry ingredients. Blend into corn and mix well. Place in heated 300* oven and bake till golden brown and it begins to pull from the sides of the pan (55 min.)
May be
prepared one week ahead. Cool, wrap in foil and freeze. Thaw
completely. Reheat in foil at 325* for 20 minutes.
Dilly Cheese Bread
From Bon Appetit, February 1980, page 6.
3 c. bisquick
1`1/2 c. grated cheddar cheese
1 T. sugar
1 1/4 c. milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 T. oil
1/2 t. dill weed
1/2 t. dry mustard
Grease a 9x5" loaf (or 6 cup bundt) pan.
Combine biscuit mix, cheese, and sugar in a large bowl. Combine remaining
ingredients in a second bowl and mix well. Stir into dry mixture.
Beat slightly to remove lumps. Bake at 350* for 45-50 minutes.
Applesauce Oat Muffins
1 1/4 c. crushed cheerios
1 c. flour
1/3 c. brown sugar
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. baking powder
3/4 t. baking soda
1 c. applesauce
1/3 c. milk
1/2 c. raisins
3 T.canola oil
1 egg (white only if you wish)
Preheat oven to 400*. Grease bottoms only of a 12 muffin pan. Mix flour, cereal, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and powder in a bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients just 'til moistened. Divide among muffin slots. Bake 18-22 minutes. Makes 12 muffins.
Refrigerate
if not used in 2-3 days.
French Bread (Bread
machine)
This is our 'daily' bread. Just big enough to get through.
1 T. yeast
2 c. bread flour
1 t. salt, rounded
1 t. sugar, rounded
1 1/2t. butter, room temperature
1c.+1T warm water
Add according to your machines order. Select 'french' and push start. Enjoy!
Basic White Bread (Bread
machine)
1 T. yeast
3 c. flour
1 T. sugar, rounded
1 t. salt, rounded
2 T. dry milk, rounded
1 T. butter, room temperature
1 1/8 c. warm water
Add ingredients according to your machines order. Select "white bread" and push start.
Buttermilk Cheese Bread (Bread machine)
1 T. yeast
3 c. bread flour
1 t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1 T. sugar
1 c. buttermilk, room temperature
1/8 c. warm water
1 1/2 c. grated cheddar cheese
1 T. dehydrated onion
Add ingredients as per your machines instructions. (Mine calls for dry first, Robin's calls for liquid first.) Set for "white bread".
Pepperoni Pizza Bread (Bread machine)
1 1/2 lb. 2 lb. loaf
1c+2T
1 1/3c water
3 c.
4 c.
bread flour
1/3 c.
1/2 c. mozzarella
2 T
2 T sugar
1 1/2t
1 1/2t garlic salt
1 1/2t
2t
dried oregano
1 3/4t
1 1/2t yeast
2/3c
1 c minced
pepperoni
Put in your machine as instructed. (Mine calls for dry ingredients first, Robin's calls for the liquids first.) Add all ingredients, except the pepperoni. Process on 'white bread'. Add pepperoni at the beeps. Enjoy!
3/4 c. boiling water
1/2lb. dates, cut fine
1 3/4 c. flour
1 t. soda
1/4 t. salt
1/2 c. sugar
1 beaten egg
1 c. grated cheddar cheese
3/4 c. chopped nuts
Pour boiling water over dates and let sit 5 minutes.
Mix all ingredients. Bake at 350* in a wax paper lined 9x5"
loaf pan, for 50 minutes.
(Or use a bite sized muffin pan, greased, and
cook for 12-15 minutes.)
A good recipe to use up those overly ripe bananas.
1/4 c. canola oil (try
1/4c. applesauce)
1/2 c. sugar
1 well beaten egg
1 c. bran cereal
2 T. water
1 1/2c. mashed bananas (2-3 bananas)
1 1/2 c. flour
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. soda
1 t. vanilla
1/2 c. chopped nuts (I use walnuts)
Mix shortening and sugar; add egg, then bran; and mix thoroughly. Combine water and mashed bananas; add alternately with dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly; add vanilla and nuts. Bake at 350* in a waxed paper lined pan.
9x5" loaf pan cook for 1 hour.
6x3" loaf pans cook for 1/2 hour.
In a bite size biscuit pan, cook for 15 minutes.
Zucchini Bread
2 C. flour
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/4 t. baking powder
2 eggs
1 1/3 c. sugar
2/3 c. canola oil (substitute
2/3 c. applesauce, It WORKS!)
2 t. vanilla
1 1/3 c. shredded zucchini
1/2 c. chopped nuts (I use walnuts)
Beat eggs; gradually add oil and sugar,
beating. Add vanilla. Add dry ingredients all at one time.
Stir in zucchini and nuts. Turn batter into a greased 9x5x3" loaf
pan.
Bake at 350* for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Cool 10 minutes and then remove from pan.
Serve with softened cream cheese.
I often
use 4 3x6" pans, and cook for 35-40 minutes. May be frozen for up
to 6 months.