Carolyn™ - Outdoor Cooking In Oz

MILK & HONEY RAISIN BREAD - CAMP OVEN STYLE

I made the recipe from the HBin5 Book, 1/2 recipe on pages 270-271 but felt there was not enough raisins.  The texture was great but for my families taste next time I will put l cup of mixed dry fruit and a teaspoon of cinnamon or mixed spice.  I cant seem to find gluten in the shops but used a product called Bread Improver which I think does much the same.

When I made it while thinking of what to put on it to plate up I remembered on occasion as a child having banana with sugar sprinkled on it and so I tried that.  It tasted great and made me smile thinking of my Mum.


The next morning I toasted it and topped it with some cream cheese, this was even better.

I felt it was successful enough to Youtube and so I made up a Youtube showing the quantities I used and how it looked step by step.  Unfortunately the choices I had for the Youtube were of it upside down :)

You should be able to view other contributors to the Bread Braid  from l May at Big Black Dog




CHOCOLATE ESPRESSO WHOLE WHEAT BRIOCHE - CINNAMON CRESCENT ROLLS WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING


On Pages 294-296 of the HBin5 Book. 1/2 quantity - again I used Bread Improver instead of Gluten.









All was going well at first.                                                                                                                                          

I lost attention when cutting out the dough and ended up with 16 rectangles instead of 16 triangles.

Rather than re roll the dough I rolled from corner to corner and got a kind of crescent.

The smell was wonderful as they cooked outdoors in my camp (dutch) oven.

I made up the Cream Cheese Icing from the book and enjoyed eating them.  I had a little dough left over and cooked it on the Skookie which I have posted previously.








I found it interesting to look at the crumb and the visible lines of the brown sugar and cinnamon on the crescent rolls.  With a longer triangle to roll these would have been even better to bite into.  You can see how much lighter the texture is compared to the dough cooked in the Skookie.