King Arthur Peachberry Buckle Recipes

KING ARTHUR PEACHBERRY BUCKLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 9" round cake pan.
• To make the cake: In a medium-sized mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar.
• Beat in the egg and vanilla.
• Stir in the baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
• Add the flour in three additions, stirring it in alternately with the milk, and beginning and ending with the flour. Set the batter aside while you make the topping.
• To make the topping: Mix all of the ingredients until crumbly. Don't over-mix, or you'll get a smooth paste, rather than crumbs.
• To assemble the buckle: Spread half the batter (about 10 ounces) in the prepared pan. Layer with the peach slices.
• Fold the blueberries or whatever fruit you are using into the remaining batter, and dollop it on top; a tablespoon cookie scoop works well here.
• Sprinkle the topping over the batter.
• Bake the buckle for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until it's a deep golden brown and a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove the buckle from the oven, and cool it on a rack. Serve warm, or at room temperature. Store at room temperature, wrapped in plastic, for several days; freeze for longer storage.

GOLDEN FOCACCIA

Steps:

• Make the starter by mixing the yeast and water, then adding the flour. Stir until the flour is incorporated.
• Cover and let rest at room temperature for about 14 hours. The starter will be bubbly.
• To make the dough, mix the active dry yeast (if using it) with a pinch of sugar and 2 tbl of the water and let it sit for 10 or 15 minutes, until it's bubbly and frothy.
• Combine the dissolved yeast or the instant yeast (whichever you are using) with the starter and the remaining dough ingredients and mix or knead - by hand, in your stand mixer or in your bread machine on the dough cycle - until you have a soft, smooth dough. A stand mixer will take about 7 minutes.
• Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover, and let rise for about an hour.
• Gently deflate it and allow it to rise for another hour - it should have doubled in bulk from its original volume.
• Lightly grease a 18" by 13" baking skeet with a rim, or two 9"x13" pans with vegetable oil spray. Drizzle olive oil on top of the spray. (The spray keeps the bread from sticking, the olive oil gives the bottom crust crunch and flavor).
• Gently pull and shape the dough into a rough rectangle and pat into the pan or pans. When the pieces start to shrink back, stop patting. Wait 15 minutes and pat further towards the edges of the pan(s). Repeat once more, if necessary, until the dough is close to covering the bottom of the pan(s).
• Cover and let the dough rise until it is very puffy. This will take about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours. Toward the end of the rising time, preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Gently dimple the dough at irregular intervals with your fingers, pressing down firmly, but not abruptly - you do not want it to deflate too much.
• Spritz heavily with warm water (I don't always do this), drizzle with 2 tbl olive oil (or enough to collect a bit in the dimples), then sprinkle with the rosemary, black papper, and salt, to taste.
• Bake for about 10 minutes. If baking in two pans, reverse the pans, and continue baking until the focaccia is light golden brown, about another 10 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and immediately turn out onto a rack to cool.
• Note1: I usually use 1/2 cup warm milk, as I rarely have powdered milk around.
• Note2:Thyme is great instead of rosemary.

YANKEE BLUEBERRY BUCKLE

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 180*C/375*F.
• Grease a 9 inch square pan.
• Cream together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs and milk.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cloves.
• Stir into the creamed mixture.
• Carefully fold in the blueberries.
• Spread the batter in the prepared pan.
• Rub the topping ingredients together until crumbly and sprinkle over top.
• Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes or until the top springs back when lightly touched.
• Serve warm, cut into squares with some ice cream, custard or pouring cream.

BLUEBERRY BUCKLE

Steps:

• BATTER:.
• Preheat oven to 400ºF.
• If using frozen blueberries, do not thaw.
• Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then beat in egg.
• Mix in half the flour mixture, followed by milk.
• Add remaining flour mixture and mix until combined.
• Pour batter into a greased 8-inch baking pan.
• Sprinkle with blueberries.
• Prepare topping immediately.
• TOPPING:.
• Mix dry ingredients in a medium-sized bowl.
• Using 2 knives or pastry cutter, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
• Sprinkle over blueberries.
• Bake on middle rack of oven for 45 minutes.
• Cool 10 minutes.
• Cut into squares and serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

RHUBARB BUCKLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350*F. Toss the rhubarb, sugar, gingerale, cornstarch and ginger together in a large bowl, moistening all the ingredients and making sure the cornstarch is dissolved.
• Place in a buttered 8 by 11 inch baking pan.
• Blend all of the topping ingredients together in a bowl and spoon over the rhubarb mixture, completely covering it.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until the topping is golden and the edges are quite bubbly.
• Serve warm in bowls with ginger ice cream if desired, or pouring cream. Yumm!