Monday, February 28, 2011

Easy Zwieback

My sister, Marie Anne makes these buns often and serves them with lunch or dinner.


9 cups/2.25 L flour


1 cup/250 ml butter


4 cups/1 L warmed milk


½ cup/125 ml warm water


1 tsp/5 ml sugar


2 Tbsp/30 ml yeast (heaping)


1 Tbsp/15 ml salt (heaping)


1 Tbsp/15 ml lemon juice


1 cup/250 ml flour (for kneading)



With a pastry blender, cut butter into 9 cups/2.25 L flour. Soften yeast in warm water and sugar. (When using Quick Rising Yeast, add directly to flour.) Add salt to warm milk and mix yeast and milk into flour. Combine and let dough rest 15 to 20 minutes. Knead dough until smooth. Let rise to double. Form into balls and place on cookie sheets covered with parchment. Make the second ball small than the first and press down onto the first – press the two together. Let rise to double. Bake in a hot oven at 400ºF/200ºC for 20 minutes.


Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Judson Lake House Publishers will be at House Of James - a Story Telling event. Mennonite stories, past and present. It will have presenters reading poetry, life stories, music and film.

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