INGREDIENTS:
- white bread flour x 3 cups
- wholemeal bread flour x 1 cup
- dry yeast x 2 tea spoons
- salt x ½ tea spoon
- palm sugar (or brown sugar) x 2 ½ tea spoons
- warm water x 1 ½ cups
- olive oil x 2 table spoons
- a handful of pumpkin seeds (not shown in the photo)
** In the picture, the bread flour is replaced by plain flour and the yeast used is a bit out of date, so the dough does not rise as nicely as usual.
METHOD:
1. Measure the dry ingredients and mix well in a bowl. (Children can help measuring and mixing.) Pour warm water into the bowl and mix with the dry ingredients using a wooden spoon or your hands.
Song: Bake bread bake
Bake bread bake
The flour we shall take
The salt from the pot
And we stir it quite a lot.
2. Add olive oil and knead the dough until it looks smooth.
Song: We knead the dough with all out might
We knead the dough with all our might,
We knead and knead to get it right
We knead the dough with all our might
So early in the morning.
3. In the mean time, you might ask your child to oil a baking tray (ready for the bread dough later) where he/she can place the things he/she will make with the bread dough.
4. Divid the dough into smaller balls for children to knead or to sculpt into different shapes.
You can also provide a rolling pin for your child. They enjoy using this tool a lot (not only for
rolling out dough). Pumpkin seeds can be given to them for creative purposes at this stage or
can be added in later.
Song: Two currant buns in a baker shop
Round and fat with sugar on the top,
Here came (a child’s name) with a penny one day,
Bought the currant bun and took it away.
One currant bun in a baker shop
Round and fat with sugar on the top,
Here came (another child’s name) with a penny one day,
Bought the currant bun and took it away.
5. After children finished working with the dough and go off to do other things, you may put all little dough pieces together and reshape into a big dough ball.
6. Leave the dough to rise overnight in a bowl covered with cling film. Preferably, you would keep the bowl at a warm place in your house.
7. Take the dough (which would look quite sticky now) out of the bowl and reshape into your preferred shape. Add small quantity of flour if it is too sticky to handle.
8. Place the shaped dough on an oiled tray, then bake in an oven preheated to 190 ºC for around 45~55 minutes depending on the oven you use.
9. If not certain, insert a skewer into the middle of the bread to check if it is properly baked. Take the bread out of the oven and leave it to cool for at least an hour before serving.
10. Serve the bread with tahini+honey (or any other choices of yours).
Enjoy it!