This is a type of bread originated in Japan. Its basically a cookie/bread combination. Cookie dough on the out side and bread dough on the inside. does anyone have a recipie to this unique bread?
I have no idea. But i know that there are a lot of beautiful bread in japan especialy the ones scented with green tea (match). Oh i love to see apost of them here plus photos of course.
Hey i've been wondering the same thing. At the moment i'm watching a anime called Yakitate Japan (Yakitate basically meaning Freash Baked), it's all about baking bread, and one of my favourite things at the moment. And in one episode they make Melon Bread, i've wanted to try it ever since, along with the many other wonderful bread creations they seem to have in Japan
You can try the on-line translation to get the ingredients from here http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/
(select the right one under the url box)
The translation here is better than google's.
In short, make the bread dough using regular recipes for dinner roll (ie not lean one).
Ingredients for the melon paste:
Pastry flour 220g (100%)
Sugar 120g (55%)
Butter 66g (30%)
Egg 62g (28%; about 1 large. add water if not enough)
I am a Japanese woman loving melon bread. It is very popular in Japan and we can find it at almost every bakery. There are even shops specializing various melon breads. I like to bake enough to make the surface crispy.
Here is my recipe.
Ingredients
Bread dough
hard flour 200g
dry yeast 2 teaspoon
butter 20g
sugar 2 tablespoon
salt 1/2 teaspoon
lukewarm water 1/2 cup
egg 1/2 piece
Topping cookie dough
soft flour 120g
baking powder 1/2 teaspoon
butter 40g
sugar 50g
egg 1/2 piece
table sugar 1 tablespoon
How to make
1. Kneading: 15 minutes with bread kneader
2. Primary fermentation: 40 minutes at 30 degrees centigrade
3. Preparation of Topping: Cream butter and sugar in a bowl. Beat in egg. Combine the flour and baking powder. Roll dough into 9 balls. Put them in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
4. Shaping: Punch the dough down and divide it into 9 pieces. Round each dough into a ball and let dough rest for 15 minutes.
Put the topping cookie dough out of refrigerator and roll out each of them into 3 inches in diameter. Cover the bread dough with this cookie dough. Put the table sugar on the top of dough, and make a lattice pattern with the back of knife.
5. Secondary fermentation: 30 minutes at 35 degree centigrade
6. Baking: 15 minutes at 180 degree centigrade
All of the recipes use "strong flour" and "light/weak flour"
The "strong/hard flour" is bread flour.
The "light/weak flour" is some sort of "wheat flour of low viscosity".... so, low-gluten maybe?
And since most recipes measure the ingredients by weight, rather than volume, that's likely where the 1/2 egg piece comes in. Using a medium egg is probably the equivalent amount.
About the melon bread, on looking over the ingredients
and method.
OK there is two lists for ingredients, one the bread dough
the other the cookie dough.
It also tells how to prepare the cookie dough , but all it says about the bread dough is
Kneading, 15 minutes with bread kneader.
Is it an all in the bowl together , mix and leave to rise, then continue as instruction say, knock back etc. qahtan
I put together the bread dough in my stand mixer. Gave it about a 5 to 10 minute mix. Then I let it rise for about 45 minutes before dividing and preshaping. I don't know if that is the "right" way of doing it, but it worked well enough.
I'd say until your hands get tired, like 5 or 10 minutes.
This is a tasty little bread, but it is high yeast and low on fermentation time. You aren't really shooting for maximum gluten development or anything spectacular from the ingredients, just something sweet to nibble on.
I tried it a second time, kneading fresh mango into the bread dough but when I baked it, it seems like it didn't rise as much, and the mango flavour was completely gone...
I have read that if you add fresh fruit to bread dough, it will melt the dough and make it liquidy unless you heat up the fruit first. I tried that but it seems something still went wrong. I am thinking of just using powdered mango instead of fresh mango, but I wanted some input first.
i found this recipe that gives more of a detailed list
1. Pan 2. Topping
- 1 packet dry yeast
- 1/4 c. water
- 1/4 tsp. sugar
***
- 1 + 3/4 c. flour
- 1/2 Tbs. salt
- 1 Tbs. + 1 tsp. + 1/4 tsp. sugar ^^
- 3 Tbs. butter
- 7/8 c. water
- 1 + 1/4 c. flour
- 1 pinch baking powder
- 2/3 c. butter
- 10 Tbs. sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 a lemon peel
- a little bit of melon essence*
* use pineapple extract if you can't find it
Part I:
1. Heat water to 100-110 F and add yeast and sugar. Let stand for around ten minutes.
2. Combine remaining bread ingredients in a bowl and add yeast. You'll probably have to add some more flour.
3. After you've added enough flour so that it isn't terribly sticky kneed it for 10-20 min. on a floured surface. Add more flour as needed.
4. Lightly grease the bowl and place the dough back in it, turning it over once to moisten the top. Cover and let stand in a warm place for 2 hours. Dough should at least double in bulk.
5. Punch dough and kneed lightly for 10 min. Pinch off walnut sized pieces and shape them into balls. Place on a cookie sheet and let rise in a warm place for 15 min.
Part II:
6. Mix all the ingredients for the cookie topping together. Sometimes it helps later on if you melt the butter.
7. Coat the bread rolls (which should be puffy now) with the cookie topping. If you've melted the butter it'll be a little easier...I usually just wash my hands really well and use them.
8. If you wish, sprinkle the top with sugar.
9. Bake at 350-375 F for 12-15 min., or until edges are slightly brown.
10. If you want them to have that mushy, just bought in Japan taste cover them individually with plastic wrap right after you take them out of the oven.
I have to say, the recipe that Hoshiko posted right above may need some tweeking. It was the first recipe that I found here on the net and it didn't come out very well. I mean, it looked great and tasted fairly good but it wasn't as flavorful as I thought it would be. I'm for sure going to be trying out other methods to see what comes out best to my liking.
It's funny how paying attention to bread blogs stimulates interest in new types of baked goods to me. I first saw the Melon Bread on Floyd's Recent Baking post. Now I go browsing the recipies on the WildYeast Blog and low and behold Melon Bread!
I didn't know it existed when I woke up this morning. Now I've found two people that have made it and blogged about it and have seen three recipies.
I'm on a bit too big a sourdough kick right now to want to deviate to make these soon but I've got to tell you Floyd, your picture of the Melon Bread looked delicious!
I've never made these before but just had my first go.
Melon Pan
I used an improvised recipe based on my anpan dough (which I also made today - I'm going to be faaaat) and a cookie dough similar to the one posted above (less flour).
melon pan actually contains no melon flavoring. all it really is is a sweet bread. i used to work at a japanese bakery in Honolulu. and it's not really sweet; it's only mildly sweet. the best part about melon pan in the outer shell.-spookyempath
The one recipe I found was the one that had you putting in melon essence or pineapple extract. I could not find melon essence so I used the pineapple extract and I love it!
But to those who would like the process to be faster/easier I suggest going to the store and in the freezer aisle where they keep the boxed pies and other assorted desserts. They should have a few shelves of things like dinner rolls and cinnamon rolls.
Look for Rhodes dinner rolls. They come in a small, square bag. The rolls inside are nothing but round dough balls. Look through the clear plastic to be sure you got the right kind since Rhodes makes a lot of different kinds.
These are nice because all you have to do is set them out for a short amount of time to let them rise. All you have to do is make the cookie topping and place it on top.
These rolls make for very good melon bread.
Also I tried using orange and lemon extract to find other flavors and I prefer the orange. They're all very good, though I highly suggest the pineapple extract.
Re: Melon Bread!
I have no idea. But i know that there are a lot of beautiful bread in japan especialy the ones scented with green tea (match). Oh i love to see apost of them here plus photos of course.
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Hey i've been wondering the
Hey i've been wondering the same thing. At the moment i'm watching a anime called Yakitate Japan (Yakitate basically meaning Freash Baked), it's all about baking bread, and one of my favourite things at the moment. And in one episode they make Melon Bread, i've wanted to try it ever since, along with the many other wonderful bread creations they seem to have in Japan
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Here is the instruction in
Here is the instruction in Japanese with photos.
http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/e-pan/melon/melon.htm
You can try the on-line translation to get the ingredients from here
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/
(select the right one under the url box)
The translation here is better than google's.
In short, make the bread dough using regular recipes for dinner roll (ie not lean one).
Ingredients for the melon paste:
Pastry flour 220g (100%)
Sugar 120g (55%)
Butter 66g (30%)
Egg 62g (28%; about 1 large. add water if not enough)
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Here is in English
http://lerman.biz/asagao/baking.html
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My recipe
I am a Japanese woman loving melon bread. It is very popular in Japan and we can find it at almost every bakery. There are even shops specializing various melon breads. I like to bake enough to make the surface crispy.
Here is my recipe.
Ingredients
Bread dough
Topping cookie dough
How to make
1. Kneading: 15 minutes with bread kneader
2. Primary fermentation: 40 minutes at 30 degrees centigrade
3. Preparation of Topping: Cream butter and sugar in a bowl. Beat in egg. Combine the flour and baking powder. Roll dough into 9 balls. Put them in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
4. Shaping: Punch the dough down and divide it into 9 pieces. Round each dough into a ball and let dough rest for 15 minutes.
Put the topping cookie dough out of refrigerator and roll out each of them into 3 inches in diameter. Cover the bread dough with this cookie dough. Put the table sugar on the top of dough, and make a lattice pattern with the back of knife.
5. Secondary fermentation: 30 minutes at 35 degree centigrade
6. Baking: 15 minutes at 180 degree centigrade
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Melon bread............
So the name "Melon" bread is for the way it is cut,
I thought it had melon in the recipe, :-)))
thanks, qahtan
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I thought that too
Until I saw the melon bread episode of Yakitate Japan. ;-p ~Erithid
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what does she mean by 'hard
what does she mean by 'hard flour' and 'soft flour'? and i'm also wondering what she means by 1/2 egg.
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I assumed that hard flour
I assumed that hard flour meant bread flour and soft flour cake flour. I used all-purpose for both.
I didn't get the 1/2 piece egg either. I added 1 whole egg when I made them.
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I just bought a breadmaker in Japan...
All of the recipes use "strong flour" and "light/weak flour"
The "strong/hard flour" is bread flour.
The "light/weak flour" is some sort of "wheat flour of low viscosity".... so, low-gluten maybe?
And since most recipes measure the ingredients by weight, rather than volume, that's likely where the 1/2 egg piece comes in. Using a medium egg is probably the equivalent amount.
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japanese cream bread
By any chance have you got a recipe for japanese cream bread & double soft white bread please.
thanks in advance bizzy
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I tried making them today.
Thanks for posting the recipe, minako. I tried baking some today. Check it out!
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help wanted again.......... :-)))
About the melon bread, on looking over the ingredients
and method.
OK there is two lists for ingredients, one the bread dough
the other the cookie dough.
It also tells how to prepare the cookie dough , but all it says about the bread dough is
Kneading, 15 minutes with bread kneader.
Is it an all in the bowl together , mix and leave to rise, then continue as instruction say, knock back etc. qahtan
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kneading melon bread dough
I put together the bread dough in my stand mixer. Gave it about a 5 to 10 minute mix. Then I let it rise for about 45 minutes before dividing and preshaping. I don't know if that is the "right" way of doing it, but it worked well enough.
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kneading melon bread dough
OK, Thanks.
Have just made whole wheat with a cup of multigrain
added to the ingredients.
Also put the brandy into my Christmas cake fruit, hope to make the cake over the weekend. qahtan
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kneading without a mixer
If i don't have a bread mixer and want to do it by hand, how long should I knead it for? I assume that it will take much much longer.
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Until your hands get tired
I'd say until your hands get tired, like 5 or 10 minutes.
This is a tasty little bread, but it is high yeast and low on fermentation time. You aren't really shooting for maximum gluten development or anything spectacular from the ingredients, just something sweet to nibble on.
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Adding fruit flavours
Thanks! It worked great!
I tried it a second time, kneading fresh mango into the bread dough but when I baked it, it seems like it didn't rise as much, and the mango flavour was completely gone...
I have read that if you add fresh fruit to bread dough, it will melt the dough and make it liquidy unless you heat up the fruit first. I tried that but it seems something still went wrong. I am thinking of just using powdered mango instead of fresh mango, but I wanted some input first.
Thanks!
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another recipe
i found this recipe that gives more of a detailed list
1. Pan 2. Topping
- 1 packet dry yeast
- 1/4 c. water
- 1/4 tsp. sugar
***
- 1 + 3/4 c. flour
- 1/2 Tbs. salt
- 1 Tbs. + 1 tsp. + 1/4 tsp. sugar ^^
- 3 Tbs. butter
- 7/8 c. water
- 1 + 1/4 c. flour
- 1 pinch baking powder
- 2/3 c. butter
- 10 Tbs. sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 a lemon peel
- a little bit of melon essence*
* use pineapple extract if you can't find it
Part I:
1. Heat water to 100-110 F and add yeast and sugar. Let stand for around ten minutes.
2. Combine remaining bread ingredients in a bowl and add yeast. You'll probably have to add some more flour.
3. After you've added enough flour so that it isn't terribly sticky kneed it for 10-20 min. on a floured surface. Add more flour as needed.
4. Lightly grease the bowl and place the dough back in it, turning it over once to moisten the top. Cover and let stand in a warm place for 2 hours. Dough should at least double in bulk.
5. Punch dough and kneed lightly for 10 min. Pinch off walnut sized pieces and shape them into balls. Place on a cookie sheet and let rise in a warm place for 15 min.
Part II:
6. Mix all the ingredients for the cookie topping together. Sometimes it helps later on if you melt the butter.
7. Coat the bread rolls (which should be puffy now) with the cookie topping. If you've melted the butter it'll be a little easier...I usually just wash my hands really well and use them.
8. If you wish, sprinkle the top with sugar.
9. Bake at 350-375 F for 12-15 min., or until edges are slightly brown.
10. If you want them to have that mushy, just bought in Japan taste cover them individually with plastic wrap right after you take them out of the oven.
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Domo Gozaimasu
My husband and kids love Melon Bread/Cakes. I can't wait to
this recipe.
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I have to say, the recipe
I have to say, the recipe that Hoshiko posted right above may need some tweeking. It was the first recipe that I found here on the net and it didn't come out very well. I mean, it looked great and tasted fairly good but it wasn't as flavorful as I thought it would be. I'm for sure going to be trying out other methods to see what comes out best to my liking.
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just wanna ask
i'm yakitate fans..
in the manga they put some melon juice in the bread ..
is that the right way..
or just a variation..
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Another Melon-Pan/bread recipe
It's funny how paying attention to bread blogs stimulates interest in new types of baked goods to me. I first saw the Melon Bread on Floyd's Recent Baking post. Now I go browsing the recipies on the WildYeast Blog and low and behold Melon Bread!
I didn't know it existed when I woke up this morning. Now I've found two people that have made it and blogged about it and have seen three recipies.
I'm on a bit too big a sourdough kick right now to want to deviate to make these soon but I've got to tell you Floyd, your picture of the Melon Bread looked delicious!
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Melon Pan
I've never made these before but just had my first go.
I used an improvised recipe based on my anpan dough (which I also made today - I'm going to be faaaat) and a cookie dough similar to the one posted above (less flour).
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Just want to let you know I
Just want to let you know I have been searching for a recipe like this forever! Will try and see what it will turn out. Thank you!!!
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melon pan actually contains
melon pan actually contains no melon flavoring. all it really is is a sweet bread. i used to work at a japanese bakery in Honolulu. and it's not really sweet; it's only mildly sweet. the best part about melon pan in the outer shell.-spookyempath
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Easy Way
The one recipe I found was the one that had you putting in melon essence or pineapple extract. I could not find melon essence so I used the pineapple extract and I love it!
But to those who would like the process to be faster/easier I suggest going to the store and in the freezer aisle where they keep the boxed pies and other assorted desserts. They should have a few shelves of things like dinner rolls and cinnamon rolls.
Look for Rhodes dinner rolls. They come in a small, square bag. The rolls inside are nothing but round dough balls. Look through the clear plastic to be sure you got the right kind since Rhodes makes a lot of different kinds.
These are nice because all you have to do is set them out for a short amount of time to let them rise. All you have to do is make the cookie topping and place it on top.
These rolls make for very good melon bread.
Also I tried using orange and lemon extract to find other flavors and I prefer the orange. They're all very good, though I highly suggest the pineapple extract.
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