How to make pan de sal

it's fun baking this favorite filipino breakfast bread- pan de sal when it is accompanied by a cup of your favorite coffee.


Here are the ingredients you need: for a 1 kilo of pan de sal recipe :

• 1 kg of first class flour or bread flour
• 10 grams of instant yeast
• 15grams of iodized salt ( rock or table salt can be used)
• 4 to 10 grams of dough improver
• 50 grams lard or vegetable shortening ( or 25 grams lard, 25 grams margarine)
• 170 to 180 grams white granulated sugar
• 20 grams powdered milk
• water 450 grams
• 5 grams of vanilla
• bread crumbs(available in supermarket, your local bakery)

Baking utensils

• a rolling pin (or a dough roller)
• a weighing scale that can read 2 grams to 1,000 grams or 1 kilogram(which may cost you P500)

• a basin (plastic or aluminum) to mix your ingredients,

• a clean working table

Procedure

• Mix flour, instant yeast, powdered milk, dough improver and sift at a fair height to allow air to encorporate to the mixture .
• in a separate basin, add water, vanilla, white sugar, iodized salt , mix well until salt and sugar have dissolved .
• Add liquid mixture in to the sifted dry mixture with the lard added on.
• Start kneading with your hand until mixture becomes smooth and elastic.
• If you have a dough roller, kneading will be much faster.
• After kneading . you have to allow the dough to relax. After say 10 minutes you can now form the dough into a baston shape and weigh 10 grams a piece.
• Roll the shaped dough in the bread crumbs and place on a greased baking tray.
  
• Allow to rest until dough has doubled in size, you can test it if ready for baking by poking a finger on the dough and if it leaves a dent or a well, and the dough does not bounced back.
• Preheat oven at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. If your oven does not have a thermometer , I would suggest you buy one.
• As you reach this temperature, you can now place all the dough and wait 5 to 10 minutes or until bread turns golden brown.
• At last you now have a freshly bake pan de sal, readys to eat.