Foodie Challenge

Ok so I am not a foodie. Cooking I love, eating I don't. The thing is making the same dishes over and over again bores me. 

So this will be a weekly challenge for myself and any one who wishes to join in. Here are the "rules"

On Sunday, or in this one case tonight! I will post a recipe. The recipe will call for common ingredients, things we all usually have. I will NOT tell where the recipe comes from, be it a blog or cook book or news paper and so on until the next challenge begins. (Since this week we got started on Wednesday it will be a week and 1/2 long challenge)

The object is to look at old foods in new ways. What I want is for you to cook the item then report back and review the food, either here as a comment or on your own blog or if you are a member of PH, there in the weekly Foodie Challenge thread. I will post my review as a blog post an put the new challenge at the end of it.

All totally confused now? Good me too. 

Here is the first recipe. It is a bread recipe that has the same ingredients as regular bread but claims a different taste and texture.

This recipe makes 2 loaves.

Golden Buffalo bread

1/2 cup plus 3 table spoons sugar

4 cups luke warm water (between 90 and 120 degrees)

2 packages (1/4 ounce) yeast

6 cups good quality bread flour

7 tablespoons powdered whole milk (I do not have this so will use the reg dry milk)

2 teaspoons salt

2 eggs beaten

6 tablespoons canola or safflower oil

1/2 cup honey

11/2 cup all purpose flour

Stir 3 tablespoons of sugar in to 21/2  cups of water in a small bowl. Sprinkle yeast over the mixture. DO NOT stir. let sit at least 5 minutes.

Stir together 3 cups of bread flour, the powdered milk, salt and the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar. With an electric mixer blend in the yeast mixture then the eggs, oil and 1 cup of the remaining water. Mix well and add the remaining 3 cups of bread flour 1 cup at a time.  Add the remaining 1/2 cup of water and honey.

Sprinkle 1/2 cup of the all purpose flour on a board turn out the dough and sprinkle with another 1/2 cup flour.  Scrape the top of the bread dough over and fold the dough in half. (I do not have a bread scraper so plan to just knead the bread dough) turn a 1/4 turn and repeat. Sprinkle with more flour if dough gets sticky.

 Knead 15 times.

Lightly  oil a large bowl. Transfer dough to the bowl. Cover with a tea towel and let the dough rise in a warm place until double, about 2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 9x 5x3 loaf pans. Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured bowl and cut dough evenly in 1/2 and place each 1/2 in each pan. Set the loaves aside uncovered and let rise for 15 minutes. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until golden and a thump with your fingers yields a hollow sound. remove from oven and set on a wire rack to cool.