hello and welcome back to you in the kitchen with Matt I am your host Matt
Taylor today I'm going to show you how to make acorn bread recently I posted a
video on how to process acorns and make acorn flour if you want to watch that
click the I up here and you'll be able to watch that and I'll put a link down
below where you can find it as well and so let's say you have this acorn flour
that you made now what are you gonna do with it well I made a video on how to
make acorn blueberry muffins before and now I'm going to show you how to make an
acorn bread with that a corn flour it's really simple to do easy ingredients if
I can do it you can do it let's get baking
alright this is a yeast based dough so
what we're gonna do is we need to start
our yeast I have 1 cup of water here and
I heated that up to about 105 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm gonna add in
about a teaspoon of our sugar just stir
that sugar around a little bit this will
act as food for the yeast unless add in our yeast 2 and 1/4
teaspoons of active dry yeast or if you buy it and the little packets 1 packet
okay and I'm just gonna educate it just a little bit alright and then let's just
go ahead and let this sit for about 10 minutes so it can do its thing it's
gonna get all nice and frothy foamy and
if after 10 minutes it's not foamy or
frothy that means the yeast is bad it
was old or maybe the water was too hot
or not hot enough so you need to start again
and now what we want to do is I'll take a larger bowl here I'm gonna go ahead
and pour in the yeast mixture let's go ahead and add in our the rest of our
sugar this was 1/3 cup of sugar if you want
your bread to be a little less sweet just use it 1/4 cup of sugar instead of
1/3 and then what we want to do is we want to add in our cue tablespoons of
oil you can use vegetable oil olive oil coconut oil and then I'm gonna add in 2
teaspoons of honey and now I have 3 cups of bread flour but I'm not gonna add it
all a I'm just gonna do about a cup work let's just use a wooden spoon and mix
this together and now star of our show I have 1/2 cup of my a corn flour let's
put that in there and let's do another cup of our bread flour
and then on top of that let's add in our 1 teaspoon of salt
iodine salt and let's go ahead and just get this all mixed in oh yeah on bread
and remember any time you're making yeast breads you don't want to just dump
in all the flour because you may not need to use it all let's add in some
more flour and so you just use your hands if you're
using a stand mixer go ahead and use that but you get to the point where it's
fairly it's still gonna be a little sticky but enough to where you can work
with it and now let's take some more of our flour dust our surface whatever
surface we are using your table or countertop dump your dough out on there
some gather it all up and then we're gonna just take it fold it over push
down turn it a quarter turn take it fold it like that push down and then you're
gonna add flour as necessary because this is gonna get stick to you probably
and you knead the dough for eight minutes after about eight minutes your
dough will be done and look I had about probably about a 1/2 cup of red flour
left over that I'm not gonna use and that's totally fine I set that aside and
then what you want to do I love East based dough all right so I have a big
bowl here it's the same one I just washed it out and then I have a ginger
innocent generous amount of oil in there about a teaspoon or work and just go
ahead and oil the sides your fingers and I take the dough and move that around in
there and now we want to let this we want to cover it and let it rise in this
towel with a damp towel but because here in Arizona is really dry if you live in
a humid area you probably don't have to use a damp towel just cover it and we're
going to let it rise for about an hour hour and a half until it doubles or
triples in size or if you have a dough proofer you can put it in your dope food
for about an hour and that will do as well all right it's been about 90
minutes let's go ahead and check in on our dough yeah let's get that it rose
fantastically always makes me happy to see that my dough has risen great now
what we'll do is we'll just take the dough punch it down a little bit and
then just pour it up here you probably won't need any extra flour on the table
because of the oil that we used and just kind of shape it into a loaf like this
and we'll take a bread loaf pan this is a five by nine a bread loaf pan and just
go ahead and put it in there like that perfect then you'll just go ahead and
cover it back up with your towel or you can put it in your dough proofer and
we're gonna let it rise for a another hour all right it's been about another
hour go ahead and look our dough has risen again really nicely and now what
we do is we preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 176 Celsius and we
go ahead and put this in the oven and bake it for about 30 to 35 minutes we'll
check it at about 30 minutes and if it's getting too Brown on top go ahead and
put some foil over it and then let it bake for another about five minutes you
should be ready to go and when it comes out of the oven it will look something
like this nice hard outer crust smells fantastic
and just let it sit and cool for a few minutes and then what we'll do is we
will take a like a cookie rack and we just go ahead
boom like that and we'll just let it cool the rest of the way until we want
to cut into it sometimes I cut it into it where when it's still fairly warm and
then put some butter on it and the butter melts off oh yeah all right and
let me cut into this and show you what it looks like
oh yeah let's get that that look awesome yummy smells really good you can see the
little parts of the bigger ate corn grits alright that's how you make my acorn
bread super easy to do super yummy if I can do
it you can do it I'm Matt Taylor this has been another
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