cooking

[mrk2010]

leaving bread dough for 2 hours? Next time but it in a bowl, put a tea towel over it an place it in an airing cupboard (or another warm part of the house) and this will be quicker. Yeast needs heat to activate and rise (this is called proving) and you do it again later. Also why have you put butter in your bread dough? Here's a recipe I use,

• 1kg strong bread flour
• 625ml tepid water
• 30g fresh yeast or 3 x 7g sachets dried yeast
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 level tablespoon fine sea salt

You might want to give pastry a crack before doing donuts (do the basics) even something like making a roux sauce, if you know the fundamentals you can build up. cakes are easy really you just have to get enough air in. I did food technology for like 5 years so I have plenty of kitchen experience :p