Today
I have beef &
broccoli stir-fry with lo mein
noodles - in separate compartments,
but mixed together when I ate them - edamame,
and orange segments. The real star, however, is the
melon pan (melon bread) in the separate container.
I've been wanting to make melon bread, but all the
recipes I've found for it either have directions that
make no sense to me, measurements in grams (I don't
have a kichen scale), ingredients like "hard flour,"
(which, I suppose, is bread flour, but I'm not sure),
or other obstacles. So, I thought, why not backwards
engineer it? Melon bread is basically a bun with a thin
cookielike outer coating. So I made a batch using cafeteria
roll dough covered with Pillsbury sugar cookie dough.
The result was much less dense than the melon pan I've
bought from bakeries, because cafeteria rolls are quite
light and fluffy, but other than that it looked and
tasted just right to me. So, my melon pan may be totally inauthentic,
but I'm satisfied!
Wanna talk
about it?
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