Mealie bread made with raw kernels
Ingredients
- 3 cups white flour
- 5 teaspoons white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 5g instant dried yeast (or half a packet)
- ½ cup fresh yellow sweetcorn (cut off the cob)
- 1 cup of lukewarm water
Method
- Mix all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl, until it forms dough, taking care to add the water slowly at the end so it doesn’t become to wet.
- Knead for only one minute.
- Put into a greased 20cm (8″) loaf tin and leave in a warm place covered with a damp tea towel for about 1 hour, or until double in size.
- Then place in a pre heated oven (180ºF) for about 1 hour, or until golden brown.
- This delicious mealie bread is lovely when eaten warm and drizzled with butter
Mealie bread with cream style sweetcorn
Makes one large loaf or two smail ones
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1½ hours
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 125 ml milk
- 1 x 410g tin of cream style sweetcorn
- 250g mealie meal
- 250g cake flour
- 15 ml baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- boiling water
Method
- Beat the eggs, milk and the sweetcorn together.
- Sift in the mealie meal, cake flour, baking powder, salt, and mix together.
- Pour the into a greased bread loaf tin. Two smaller ones can be used instead well.
- Cover the tin with tin foil and secure with string.
- Place the loaf tin into a large saucepan that has been filled with about 5 cm of boiling water.
- Cover the saucepan and steam at a moderate heat for 1 and a half hours. Check every now and again if water needs to be added.
- Insert a knife into the bread to test if done. If the knife is clean when removed then the mealie bread is ready.
- Best to eat warm with plenty of butter.
