Being a sunny long weekend was a good time to make bread. I weighed out the flour, ground sea salt and yeast and put them in the mixing bowl fitted with a dough hook. I then added the luke warm milk, melted butter and golden syrup and mixed them together slowly. I love that machine, so wonderful seeing the ingredients of bread combining so effortlessly. A friend of mine this weekend undertook to be the first woman to sail the Coastal Classic solo. She was more than 29 hours at the helm, sailing from Waitemata Harbour in Auckland to Russel. Now that’s something. 
Not effortless but a dream come true, and a challenge accomplished, her Dad being one of the founders of the race in 1982. Fantastic to take your skills and use them to the best of your ability to achieve goals that you set for yourself. Now that’s living! 🙂
I let the bread dough sit for 5 minutes to rest and ‘allow the flour to become fully hydrated’. 
Then turned the dough out onto the bench and kneaded it for 10 minutes. 
I then transferred this to a bowl and covered with clingfilm and left it to rise at room temperature for 1 hour. 
It did its business and afterwards I punched down the dough 
and made floury baps, gotta love them. 
I divided the dough into 8 and rolled each piece into an oval, 
then brushed them with milk and sprinkled with flour.
I left them to rise for half an hour at room temperature until not quite doubled in size.
I then baked in a very hot oven after thumb printing the top of each to prevent them rising.
Interesting exercise making bread and baps, always fun. 🙂
