I got this recipe from the King Arthur website and made it this past week
and really liked this recipe. I made a loaf of bread and 6 rolls. Dough
really rose quite a bit and came out fluffy.
Basic Sandwich Bread And/Or Devonshire (Or Cornish) Splits
This is a rich and basic recipe that makes enough dough for one 4 x 13-inch
pain de mie pan; one 8 1/2 x 4 1/2-inch loaf pan plus a half dozen
Devonshire Splits; or a dozen and a half Devonshire Splits. Splits are the
rolls served in the West Country with strawberry jam and double cream at a
traditional "Cream Tea."
1 1/4 cups water
1/4 cup nonfat dry milk
1 large egg
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons instant yeast
4 1/2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1/4 cup softened butter or shortening
This amount of dough is easily prepared in a 1 1/2-pound bread machine set
on the dough cycle.
Knock the dough down and turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface.
If you have a scale, it'll makes the next step a bit more scientific. If
you're opting to make one loaf and six splits, take about two-thirds of the
dough, shape it into a loaf, and place it in a lightly greased 8 1/2 x 4
1/2-inch bread pan. Take the remaining dough and cut it into six even
pieces, shape them into balls, and place them, seam-side down, on a small,
lightly greased baking sheet. Cover the loaf and rolls and let the loaf
rise for 45 minutes to an hour, while the rolls should rise for 15 to 20
minutes.
Bake the rolls for about 15 minutes at 425 F. Remove them from the oven and
place them on a rack to cool. Turn the oven down to 350 F and when the
bread dough has risen just over the top edge of the bread pan, put it in
the oven and bake it for 35 minutes. Remove it and cool it on a rack.
Cornish Splits
Cut each roll from top to bottom on the diagonal, not quite all the way
through. Open each one up; on one side spread strawberry jam, and on the
other, clotted or double cream (or even homemade sour cream, which is much
like a light clotted cream). Close the roll back up and, if you feel like
being elegant, brush the top with a little melted butter and sprinkle on a
bit of confectioners' sugar. If you serve these rolls with clotted cream
and treacle (very similar to molasses) rather than clotted cream and jam,
they're known as "Thunder and Lightning."
Nutrition information per serving (1 split with 1 teaspoon each jam and
cream, 54g): 128 cal, 2.9g fat, 3g protein, 20g complex carbohydrates, 1g
sugar, 1g dietary fiber, 8mg cholesterol, 265mg sodium, 59mg potassium, 1mg
iron, 60mg calcium, 38mg phosphorus.