The first bake of 2009 was also some sort of bread, cinnamon rolls to be exact. Maybe I can make a habit out of this, making bread within the first week of the new year. This time round I made bread cones – cone-shaped bread. I came across a recipe from Home Cooking In Montana and I thought it was a pretty bread to make.
The bread is a simple milk and egg dough, nothing too complex. It’s the shaping that requires some skills. It involves hunting for paper to roll into cones, and covering each cone with aluminium foil, and then rolling out the bread dough into long strips and wrapping it round the cone. (sidetrack: I keep mistyping cone as come. Damn Freudian slip!)
I love the sheen on the cone from the egg wash, I must add. It looks much less rustic, which really is a euphemistic term for village-like.
See, I can hold the cone in my hand. For more hygienic folks you can wrap deli paper around the base and hand it out as picnic food. I love food that I can eat with one hand.
Each cone can be filled with whatever comes your mind. Seriously, if you are serving it as you fill it up, as long as there aren’t holes in the bread, you can serve soup if you want. Great for impressing your guests at casual dinner parties. Of course, guests who won’t mind if the soup starts to leak after a while. I put some mozzarella cheese into the cones, they started to melt because they were still pretty warm when I took the picture.
After I took a bite of the bread it struck me that this was the perfect bread for hotdogs.
See the pretty air holes in the bread where I bit it. That aside, it’s a mess-free way of serving hotdogs in my opinion. The usual hotdog buns usually just gape when you try to insert the hotdog and whatever else and one requires about three hands to eat a hotdog – one to grip, one to support and one to catch the falling and dripping bits. Uncool. So this is a good solution to flimsy hotdog buns, albeit a little crunchier on the outside. I think this has potential. Imagine it smaller, maybe the size of shotglass and filled with different fillings ranging from salad to fish roe, pizza topping to dessert custard – won’t it be amazing party food? Everyone mingling with a little cone in one hand and martini glass in the other. No more dumb plates to handle, no more breakages, no more dirty dishes.
Then again, carbo-watching people might just want to stay away from that thought. It’d be one of those things that you can’t stop eating.
Hmmmm. Yum.
Wow…Looks delicious. SO cute.