Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chelsea bread. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chelsea bread is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chelsea bread is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
The original itself is also a variation on the old Bath Bun recipies of long ago Chelsea England. In Gravenherst Ontariao near the Muskoga region the Gravenherst Bakery is known for its authentic Chelsea which is made in the form of a loaf actually several sliced rolls laid together closely in a pan. While hot from the oven, prepare the glaze.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chelsea bread using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chelsea bread:
- Take 500 gm Plain flour
- Make ready 15 gm Yeast
- Make ready 40 gm Unsalted butter
- Get 300 ml Milk
- Make ready For the feeling
- Take 25 gm Melted butter
- Make ready 75 gm Brown sugar
- Get 2 tsp Cinnamon powder
- Get 150 gm Dried mixed fruits
DON'T LET THE PREP TIME SCARE YOU. THIS INCLUDES ALL THE BREAD MACHINE TIME PLUS THE RESTING TIME. A Muskoka style chelsea bun recipe, made in the style found in cottage country bakeries. There are two kinds of chelsea buns.
Steps to make Chelsea bread:
- Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Make a well in the middle and add the yeast. - - Meanwhile, warm the milk and butter in a saucepan until the butter melts and the mixture is lukewarm. - - Add the milk mixture and egg to the flour mixture and stir until the contents of the bowl come together as a soft dough. (You may need to add a little extra flour.)
- Tip the dough onto a generously floured work surface. Knead for five minutes, adding more flour if necessary, until the dough is smooth and elastic and no longer feels sticky.
- Lightly oil a bowl with a little of the vegetable oil. Place the dough into the bowl and turn until it is covered in the oil. Cover the bowl with cling film and set aside in a warm place for one hour, or until the dough has doubled in size.
- Lightly grease a baking tray. - - For the filling, knock the dough back to it's original size and turn out onto a lightly floured work surface. Roll the dough out into a rectangle 0.5cm/¼in thick. Brush all over with the melted butter, then sprinkle over the brown sugar, cinnamon and dried fruit.
- Roll the dough up into a tight cylinder, cut ten 4cm/1½in slice and place them onto a lightly greased baking sheet, leaving a little space between each slice. Cover with a tea towel and set aside to rise for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. - - Bake the buns in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until risen and golden-brown. - - Meanwhile, for the glaze, heat the milk and sugar in a saucepan until boiling. Reduce the heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
- Remove the buns from the oven and brush with the glaze, then set aside to cool on a wire rack.
There's the traditional British style, which are sweet rolls with a sticky glaze and studded with currants. I'm sure they're very good, but these aren't those kind of chelsea buns. They were immensely popular and still are to this day. They're essentially a cinnamon roll type of recipe with the addition of raisins and the recipe can be started in your bread machine using the dough cycle. After the dough setting is complete the dough is rolled out with a rolling pin, and then rolled by hand.
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