How To Bake Pandesal and Other Breads

Just sharing my special hands on session with two brothers, 3 days as usual and these guys are beginners which is mostly what i usually get to teach since 2001. Honestly, i would have occasional students who have attended baking lessons somewhere else, you know trying to update their skills, some have attended only a few weeks before and some were like months or years ago. That is normal. If you take these lessons, be sure to practice, practice, practice no less than a week after you take the class. Everything should be fresh in your mind especially, if you have never baked breads before. I always tell them, do not let a week go by without baking at least a flatbread, or a small batch of dinner rolls because it keeps you interested, and for ehem...rich people sometimes this is a problem. Unless this is really what you have been dreaming for the past 10 years or so and not just some whim because you happen to bite into a crusty roll and you liked it, baking will be like a routine to ...

First of a series.  Knowing how to bake. I need more than a page to explain the nitty gritty on setting up your own bakery, in fact, in the next few months I will be re-opening mine. So instead of lecturing you guys on what to do i will try my best to tell you my preparations for my bakery. Just to make it simple. Siempre, dapat marunong kang mag bake. In all my years of teaching baking, I started 2001), every month I get students who own bakeries but never bothered to take up baking. Just like that, they would set up a bakery by hiring a baker. Fine, as long as you can trust the baker right? Uh....wrong. That baker will not stay with you forever. Another downside is that 100% of the time, he owns the recipes your bakery is selling. You have no idea how much sugar the pandesal has, or how much egg yolks he uses in the Ensaimada so you can do proper inventory and food costing. Nada.  If he tells you he has a headache and doesn't feel like coming to work today, he doesn't work t...

If there is one thing I get asked to bake every special occasion, it is this beauty down here. I was going to bake a carrot cake and a chocolate cake with tiramisu frosting but got asked to make cinnamon  rolls and fruitcake instead. So cancel the chocolate cake. Yes, my brother in law loves fruitcakes. My kind of fruitcake which is less dense and lighter than the usual you find in your holiday basket.  So here it is, 1.5 kgs of cinnamon rolls, I took about 500 grams off the dough and made hamburger buns within since I don't really eat cinnamon rolls that much.