Biscuits

This is a very simple biscuits recipe from All recipes that I just converted to grams to make it easy to measure out with a scale.

Ingredients

• 250 g flour
• 10 g baking powder
• 2 g baking soda
• dash of salt
• 13 g sugar
• 113 g butter
• 175 g buttermilk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200 C.
2. In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix in the buttermilk. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead 12 times (as little as possible to not activate the gluten). Transfer to an ungreased baking sheet, roll into a 6x6 inch square, and cut into 12 even sections. Do not separate.
3. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center of the square comes out clean. Separate into biscuits, and serve hot.

Quick and simple buns

Ingredients

• 50 g yeast
• 5 dl warm water
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp olive oil 
• 9-12 dl flour - wheat/full wheat and a bit of rye (or some other kind, but not more than 3dl of the other flour)

Method

1. Mix all ingredients.
2. Let rise for an hour at room temp.
3. Fashion into buns and let rise for another 30 minutes.
4. Brush with egg yolk if you want nice color.
5. Bake for 10 minutes at 250 ºC.

Banana Bread

We had four horribly over ripe bananas that we were loathe to throw away. So we made banana bread.

We mostly followed the recipe outlined here, but we initially started on another recipe and so the order of addition of ingredients is slightly different from the recipe in the link.

Ingredients

1/2 cup (110 g) butter

1 cup (210 g) white sugar

2 eggs

4 ripe bananas (original recipe called for 3)

2 cups (220 g) All-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda (We didn't have any, so skipped)

1 teaspoon baking powder (used double to accomodate missing soda)

1/2 teaspoon salt

Dribble (maybe 1/2 teaspoon) vanilla essence

We didn't have any walnuts so we skipped that too.

Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 175 C.
2. (What we did) Melt the butter in the microwave and mash in the bananas. Add the eggs, one at a time and stir. Then mix in the sugar. The original recipe: In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, stir in the mashed bananas.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. 
4. Mix together the banana mixture and the flour mixture till just combined. 
5. Butter the inside of the baking dish and add the batter to the dish. The batter seemed much too runny but given the end result I'm going to assume this is a good thing.
6. Bake for 60 minutes. Test with knife before taking out of oven. You might want to bake it slightly shorter if you use coarser flour, like whole wheat or something. Check at 50 minutes.

Runny cake batter