Tuesday 22 November 2011

The BUN-anza

Dated retroactively to August 2011:

After a gruelling 9 exams in 2 weeks... 7 in 4 days, my final exam had been written and Canada Day was around the corner. My brilliant idea to celebrate initially involved a rather long pub crawl through the Canadian (and other) bars of Paris, to culminate in a large after work party at la Roseraie boasting Canadian (perhaps not delicacies, because Canada's not particularly famous for anything delicate in comparison to France) specialities.

However as most of my plans go, I forgot to invite everyone early enough... and my preparation for the Canadian "feast" at the end of the tour ended up taking all day... thanks to the buns.

The buns... ahh the buns... thinking that mini burgers would be more fun than big ones (and less expensive for more of them) presented one problem, president's choice does not exist here, so there are no slider buns easily available. I therefore decided to make hamburger buns that I could size accordingly.

The result was positive, but perhaps a little amusing. The process went as follows:

Step 1: warm the liquids


Step 2 : prepare the yeast and sugar


  
Step 3: add warm liquids to the yeast and sugar and allow to react.
Step 4-6: add flour, separate into buns and allow to rise
Step 7: bake...

  

Apparently I over estimated a little on the quantity of recipe to buns... They served as good snacks for Lyaz for a month!