My guys like salty snacks, especially stuffed or wrapped things with cheese and ham or hot dogs, so I had to bake these soft little buns wrapped with ham and cheese. I heard that if you put them in a plastic bag softness will stay 'till the next day - but I haven't tried that because there was no leftovers :-) Just to mention, the procedure is not the complicate one, the only thing you have to be aware is the time for dough to double itself... and let your creativity do the rest. :-)
Ingredients for the dough
- 2 cups of warm milk
- 2 tsp of yeast
- 3 tsp of sugar
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1/2 cup of oil
- prepare 5 cups of flour (add as much as the dough lets you)
Method
Mix the yeast with sugar, milk and a little flour and leave it to rest for 10 minutes. Add salt and flour and knead the dough for a few minutes before you add oil. Knead in the oil and leave the dough to double it self for half an hour in a warm place and covered with cloth. Roll out the dough not to be too thin and cut it in squares as on the picture. On every square put the stuffing that you have prepared ( salty: ham, cheese, cottage cheese...or sweet: fruit jam, chocolate, cream...) and ...
...wrap the stuffing into the dough and form a little bun by turning the wrapping upside down. Don't leave any holes - the stuffing must stay inside the bun :-)
Cream every bun with egg yolk and oil and sprinkle with salt or sugar. The buns have to be left in the pan covered with baking paper for at least 20 minutes untouched.
Bake them on 200 F degrees until they get nice color.
These buns are filled with homemade plum jam and sprinkled with powdered sugar so the experience is rather different from the salty ones. I like these better but I always have to make both sweet and salty ones just to be for everybody's taste.
If you try these out let me know what was the score at your house ... sweet vs. salty :-)
