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[maggiepie]

Darren, do you fold the bread over to eat it?

Trond, is this home made bread?
If so, would you care to post the recipe for the first loaf?
Think the second one would be a bit much for me.

 

[Anthony Darby]

This is cute..

That made my day Arnold! I was feeling glum because the muppets who were at the seats at the park last night had left their litter, as usual, but this time had smashed a beer bottle, which is not good when Heidi likes to check out their rubbish. However, I would gladly walk over broken glass to hear Messiah, and the children clearly enjoyed making this video. Wonderful. To think Handel wrote Messiah in three weeks. It would take a copiest that long to right it out! How long would it take to organise this video! Meanwhile, we need to take Lucy to get some antibiotics for infected sand fly bites but our local doctor's surgery is closed until 11^th January!

[ArnoldT]

Anthony:

I enjoyed it as well.  I like the cultural mix.  Imagine how far those little ones are removed from Handel!

[Lesley Cox]

Yep, really got a Handel on that performance.

[Arykana]

cuttings of Paddy's hydrageneas 

[Hoy]

Darren, do you fold the bread over to eat it?

Trond, is this home made bread?
If so, would you care to post the recipe for the first loaf?
Think the second one would be a bit much for me.

 

Helen, it is home made, but not by me or my wife. Although we used to make such kind of bread we haven't done it for a while. You can easily buy all kind of bread in most supermarkets here. This is the recipe of that particular loaf: (I am not sure what you call the different flour types though neither am I sure of the vocabulary of baking )


5dl grov rug =  rye flour (coarse)
5 dl Fin rug =  rye flour (fine)
3 dl Kveitemjøl = wheat flour
1 pakke cottage cheese
Lunka vatn = lukewarm water
1 pk gjær = 50 g baking yeast
Eit par gode nevar hakka hasselnøtter = a couple handfulls of chopped hazelnuts
1 ts salt = teaspoon
Litt olje = some oil (soy)

Ha alt det tørre i en bolle saman med oljen. Rør ut gjæren i lunka vatn og ha dette i melblandinga. Ha så mykje lunka vatn i som må til for å kna ut ei god deig. Ha også cottage cheesen i blandinga. La dette heve i ein god time.

= Mix all the dry stuff together with the oil. Mix the yeast with the water and mix into the flour. Add the necessary amount of water to make a good dough. Mix in the cottage cheese. Let it rise for a good hour.

Bak så ut brøda ( 2 eller 3 store brød) og ha i formene. Etterhev i 30-40 minutt.
Steikast midt i ovnen på ca 220 grader. =

Form the dough into loafs (2-3 big ones) and set in the bread tin. Let it rise for 30-40 min more.
Let it bake at 220C.

Nyyyt med brunost på. Nam nam nam nam:) =



This is the cheese you need:




 

[Martinr]

I can taste that cheese from here. Looks like the wonderful stuff we had in Lofoten a few years ago, quite sweet, very smooth with a caramel flavour...delicious but what's it called?

[maggiepie]

Trond, thanks for the recipe.
I am sure my hub would love this bread.

I don't have any coarse rye flour do you think I could substitute some 12 grain flour?
Have not seen cheese like that either, I too would like to know what it is.
I am finding these dls strange to convert, I made a pear cake with tosca topping a few days ago and converted 1/2 dl to 200mls 
Cake turned out surprisingly good considering I used 200mls of milk instead of 50ml.

3dl=11/5 cups
6dl=22/5 cups




Would that be right?

[Hoy]

If you converted 1/2 dl to 200 ml I am sure your cake got a special flavour   Lucky it wasn't salt.

You are about right:

1dl = 0.423 cups 

3dl = 1.269 cups = a little more than 1 1/5 cups
6dl = 2.538 cups = a little more than 2 1/2 cups

You can use this next time

http://www.lemelange.com/conversion_chart.htm

[Darren]

Darren, do you fold the bread over to eat it?

Trond, is this home made bread?
If so, would you care to post the recipe for the first loaf?
Think the second one would be a bit much for me.

 

Yes you do fold it over - or at least Susan does. Not being a great sandwich fan I was happy to eat the remaining croissants from the day before.

Trond - your bread looks delicious!!

[Hoy]

I can taste that cheese from here. Looks like the wonderful stuff we had in Lofoten a few years ago, quite sweet, very smooth with a caramel flavour...delicious but what's it called?

It is often just called "brunost" = brown cheese but in fact it is not a real cheese as it is not made of kasein/casein (= the cheese protein in milk) but of what is left (= myse = whey) when you have removed the cheese. The "myse" is boiled and milk or cream is added when you boil. That's why you get the caramel flavour. You can use cow milk and/or goat milk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost

Trond, thanks for the recipe.
I am sure my hub would love this bread.

I don't have any coarse rye flour do you think I could substitute some 12 grain flour?
Have not seen cheese like that either, I too would like to know what it is.

What is 12 grain flour? Is it a kind of grinding measure? But I think you can substitute

I love that kind of bread, and especially fresh baked with brunost!

[Maggi Young]

That bread looks delicious but I'm with Susan... sometimes a  tasty treat made with shop bought white loaf is the only thing that will do! 

[mark smyth]

I would like Swarovski binoculars - only £1800

[ranunculus]

I would like Swarovski binoculars - only £1800

Strange name for a snowdrop! 

[mark smyth]