I needed to get my mind of my PhD project, so I went for a bit of baking and while at it, I might practice my photography skills as well. I went for sausage bread and buns since I could use the same dough, and Rasmus wanted buns. They are really yummy and I can really recommend them.

The photo is taken at a high aperture and close by, using my 50mm lens. The only source of light is the daylight coming from the window, which posed a bit of challenge to get the angle right. The contrast and white balance needed a fair bit of tweaking in the post processing, but it really helped  to convey the bread as being good, at least compared to the photo I pulled out of the camera. But that’s the blessing of shooting in raw.

Here is the recipe. Ingredients:

500g flour
75 butter/margarine
50g yeast
1 egg
2,5 dl milk
(1 table spoon salt and 1 tea spoon sugar)

1. Melt the butter in a casserole. Once the butter is melted add the milk and warm it to around 30 degrees celsius.
2. Dissolve the yeast in the milk
3. Put in the rest of the ingredients, I forgot sugar and salt, but I didn’t miss it.
4. Split the dough in 3 balls and let them rest for a few minutes
5.  If making sausage rolls, roll each dough ball into a circle and cut it into eight slices. If making buns cut the dough balls into pieces and roll them into buns. The recipe suggests 8, but I would like them bigger, so try with 6.
6. For the sausage rolls, place half a sausage on the wide end of the slice, add some ketchup and roll it to a roll like on the photo.
7.  Let it rest for 20 minutes
8. Brush them with eggs/milks/water/coffee, as you feel like and bake them for 10 minutes at 200 degrees.

/Kristian

Tags: baking, buns, indoors