I've been reading on the wonderfully soft bread at Do What I Like for a few days. It looks like I have almost all the ingredients required, except the condensed milk. We don't particularly like condensed milk because of its sweetness, perhaps I can just add some more skim milk to replace the liquid content? Anyway, try and see what will happen.
Mixing the ingredients into a dough and then kneading by hand for about 25 minutes. Still wondering if it was enough of kneading. Well, looked like the dough was smooth enough for its first rising. Meanwhile, went online to do more research on how long to knead the dough and found this interesting site called Baking911.com.
After about 1 hour of rising, I was amazed to see the dough has risen to double in size. The yeast was working. Took out the dough to punch it down and to shape. Then it was a time of wondering how to shape the dough. After shaping, the little doughs were sent for their second rising for about 1 hour. After that, the little doughs were sent for the 15 minutes' bake in a 190C oven.
After close to 13 minutes of baking, it looked like it was getting a bit too hot in the oven and I could see the buns getting a little dark. Took out all the buns from the oven immediately to prevent the buns from getting too heated up. Here is how they look like...
Had a quick bite after it cooled a little. It was slightly crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. It wasn't sweet, perhaps due to the lack of condensed milk. Add more sugar next time? Maybe I'll just buy a can of condensed milk and remember to lower the temperature. Perhaps a breadmaker can help in the kneading process. Maybe I can attend a breadmaking course to learn more. ;-)
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