World Flavors Cookbook

Creole Bread

Name: Creole Bread
Cook time: 30 min
Cuisine: Belize
Ingredients: 500g all-purpose flour; 7g dried yeast; 2 tbsp sugar; 1 tsp salt; 2 tbsp shortening or butter; 300ml warm water

Belizean Creole sandwich bread — a soft, slightly sweet white loaf essential for the national bean and cheese breakfast sandwich.

Cuisine: Belize

Ingredients

500g all-purpose flour
7g dried yeast
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp shortening or butter
300ml warm water

Instructions

Dissolve yeast in warm water with sugar. Wait 5 minutes.
Mix flour and salt. Rub in shortening.
Add yeast mixture. Knead 10 minutes.
Rise 1 hour until doubled.
Shape into a log. Place in a loaf tin.
Rise 30 more minutes.
Bake at 180C for 25-30 minutes until golden.