Steamed or baked bun dough

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
**** NO E ***** Karen Adler FNGP13B.
1 Fresh compressed yeast cake
1¾ cup Warm water
¾ cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking powder
6½ cup All purpose flour; unsifted

Directions

TO MAKE DOUGH: Dissolve ½ yeast cake with sugar in warm water.

Immediately add baking powder and then the flour. The dough will be fairly firm and a bit on the dry side. Knead on board for 20 minutes (you should not need to flour the board) until dough becomes elastic and smooth. Place it in a big mixing bowl, cover with a damp cloth and leave in a dry, warm place (away from drafts) until dough doubles in bulk. (Every kitchen is different. Author's dough usually takes about 2½ to 3 hours to double in her electric oven, which she slightly preheats to a warm setting for 2-3 minutes then turn off.) Now punch down dough and knead again for 5 more minutes. It is now ready to be s tuffed with fillings. COMMENTS: This is just a basic yeast dough with perhaps a bit more sugar added. For those of you who do not care to make this from scratch, you may use frozen bread dough as a substitute.

Yield: 2 doz. buns. Source: "Dim Sum" by Rhoda Fong Yee. Formatted for MM by Karen Adler FNGP13B.

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #174 Date: 29 Jul 96 11:20:56 From: "steven.h.bergstein" <steven.h.bergstein@...>

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