![]() *For added richness and color, add the yolk left over from separating the egg to the dough above. sesame seeds, or the seeds of your choice.1 large egg white* whisked with 2 tablespoons cold water.3 tablespoons (43g) butter, melted divided.Want details? See this post: Winter to summer yeast baking. *For best results (a smooth, soft, slightly sticky dough), use the smaller amount of water in summer (or in a humid environment) the greater amount in winter (or in a dry climate) and something in between the rest of the time. ![]() 3 1/2 cups (420g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour.2 tablespoons (28g) butter, at room temperature.Simple ingredients and basic techniques yield mouthwatering buns: what’s not to like? Dough Let me tempt you with Beautiful Burger Buns, an old favorite that’s become one of the book’s newest additions. Our Baker's Companion offers a heaping helping of just about everything baked, from family favorites to our 2020 Recipe of the Year, Crispy Cheesy Pan Pizza - a brand-new classic. Along with tips, techniques, and teaching moments, over 450 recipes in The Baker’s Companion (many not available online) await your discovery. Sue continues to make her grandma’s cake to this day - and will no doubt introduce it to her first grandchild, born this past summer. Sue's grandmother brought the recipe from Sweden a century ago and made it regularly for a hungry family growing up in America’s Great Depression. This recipe comes from Sue, longtime leader of our research and development team. Every recipe in the book comes with its own sweet story, and even though we couldn’t print all the stories, the employee-owners at King Arthur Baking know them. The All-Purpose Baker’s Companion is a collection of thoroughly tested recipes that not only work well and taste good, but are (or once were) someone’s specialty, a family favorite. (Photo by Kristin Teig) The Baker's Companion: tried and true meets fresh and new Our Baker's Companion, James Beard Book of the Year back in 2004, has been revised and reissued and is now better than ever. But Moomie’s recipe lives on: not just online, but in our newly reissued and revised Baker’s Companion cookbook, where it will continue to shine forever. The Baking Circle was shut down 5 years ago, a victim of ever-evolving technology. Eventually they became the Circle’s most popular recipe and Ellen one of the community’s favorite members, a celebrity in her own quiet way. “Moomie’s Buns,” was originally posted by Ellen (screen name: Moomie), a Midwest farmer. These oversized (and surprisingly sturdy) buns, with their soft interior and tender, buttery crust, evoked a ton of responses. People asked (and answered) questions they made cookbook recommendations, shared favorite baking techniques, and vented when their bread didn’t turn out exactly as planned.īut mostly, people shared recipes. Bakers from multiple generations, stations in life, and cultures throughout the world connected in ways that only those who love to bake can understand. Did social media even exist 20 years ago? Yes, at King Arthur.īack in 2001, years before Facebook, Instagram, and the other social media platforms so widely used today, King Arthur created an online baking community called The Baking Circle. Partly it’s their golden good looks, their mild yet buttery flavor, and their large capacity for any kind of filling, from the expected burger to curried chicken salad or garlicky hummus and cucumbers.īut in my eyes, what’s most beautiful about these buns is their backstory. ![]() The dough is a bit soft, but that slackness also makes it easy to shape. So what makes these buns “beautiful” in the eyes of milions of beholders, who’ve made Beautiful Burger Buns the second most loved recipe on our website? I love how perfectly round these buns turn out. It’s time to break out the Beautiful Burger Buns! Beauty: it's more than crust-deep. Soon you’ll hear the hot sizzle of burgers (beef or Beyond) people grab plates, scooping out pasta salad and pickles and potato chips as they gather at the grill in anticipation … Sun slants through the trees smoke from a barbecue drifts lazily skyward. Friends and family are back together again, the long, lonely months of pandemic solitude gradually fading.
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