Recipe - Steamed Buns (Mantou)

1 teaspoon Yeast
1 teaspoon Plus
3 tablespoon Sugar
3 One half cup White flour

(adapted from Madhur Jaffrey's _World of the East Vegetarian Cooking)

Dissolve yeast in One fourth cup warm water. Mix sugar and flourin bowl. Add yeast
and 1 cup warm water to flour. Knead flourfor ten minutes. Let rise for 2
hours or until double in bulk. Punch down and knead for a few minutes.
Roll the dough ona lightly floured board until you have a 12inch roll.
Divideinto 12 little balls. Cover and let rise for 45 minutes. Line your
bamboo steamer with cheesecloth and steam the buns for15 minutes. Turn off
the heat and let sit for 10 minutes. If you're near a Chinese grocery, you
can usually get frozen mantou which taste pretty good. Also, for something
different, try adding a Tbs of instant coffee to the flour.
Posted to Digest breadbakers.v096.n059

Date: Mon, 23 May 1994

From: kiesch@leland.Stanford.EDU (John Henry Kieschnick)