Daily Bread

Break bread with me...

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. –Robert Louis S

Well, I thought I'll do my daily duty and do my daily breads too and share it with you guys..so here goes..

Ingredients

3 cup all purpose flour 1 cup warm milk 2 tbsp milk powder 2 large eggs beaten 3 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp oil 4 tbsp melted butter 2 tsp instant yeast 1 tsp salt

Method

1. Add yeast to the warm milk and set aside till the yeast is activated. You will see it frothing up which indicates the activation. 2. Sieve the flour, then add milk powder, sugar and salt along with the oil and butter and the egg ( save a bit to use as wash) and mix together. 3. Add all the milk with the activated yeast and knead together. 4. Add warm water a little at a time only if required. 5. Knead for a good 8-10 minutes. The more you knead it the softer the buns will be. 6. Apply oil on the dough and cover it and let the dough rise for a couple of hours or till it doubles. 7. Cut the dough into 10 - 20 pieces depending on the size you want your cones (I used a chart paper for the cone and then lined it with aluminium foil). 8. Roll each piece into threads of a cm thickness and wrap it around the cone leaving a very small gap in between each line. This is to ensure that you leave some space for the dough to rise. 9. Cover with a lint free kitchen towel and let it rise again for one hour in a warm place. 10. Brush the egg wash on the dough and sprinkle sesame seeds. 11. Bake in a preheated oven for 18 - 20 mins at 180 degree C. 12. I used half of my dough to just roll into small balls to bake buns for my ham sliders that i intend doing for breakfast tomorrow. 

You can fill the cone with Mac and cheese or any vegetable and cheese bake. You also have the option of filling the cone with any veg or non veg tikka with sauce of your taste and garnish it with mint or coriander leaves and squeezed lemon.