Crusty Cheese and Mustard Damperettes
"Damper is a traditional hard crusted Australian bread. This recipe makes 14 individual mini Dampers, or Damperettes. The recipe comes from the Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook “Muffins, Scones and Breads”. Recipe posted for Zaar World Tour 2005. NOTE: Australian chefs use a larger tablespoon measure so they will only need 2 tbsps of ready-made seeded or grainy mustard."
photo by Kumquat the Cats fr
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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14 Damperettes
ingredients
- 600 g self-raising flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- 30 g butter (plus extra for greasing)
- 500 ml milk (approximately)
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TOPPING
- 30 g butter
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons ready-made grainy mustard
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 120 g fresh parmesan cheese, coarsely grated
directions
- Pre heat oven to 450F / 220C /gas mark 6.
- Sift flour and mustard powder into a large bowl and rub in the butter.
- Stir in enough milk to mix to a soft, sticky dough.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface, knead until smooth.
- Press dough out to about 1.5cm thickness; cut into 7cm rounds.
- Place rounds onto greased baking trays, positioning them so that they are just touching.
- Make the topping by melting the butter in a small pan, then remove from heat and stir in remaining topping ingredients; spread topping over the Damperettes.
- Bake for about 15 minutes.
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Reviews
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These were very tasty! Light in texture too, which surprised me given descriptions of other damper breads on Zaar. I am an inexperienced baker, and have at least once messed up on flour conversion from metric to U.S. (also on one of Caroline's recipes, sorry) but I was determined not to do it this time. So what I did was check another recipe that recommended 2 1/2 cups flour to 1 cup milk. I measured first, then sifted and added 1 and 1/4 to 1 and 1/2 cups milk to get a damp (and slightly messy) dough. I kneaded with lots of flour, and ended up with 6 damperettes. Cooked for 20 minutes at 400 Fahrenheit (had to compete with another recipe in oven) and they came out perfect. Halved the butter in dough and topping, but kept mustard levels as posted. We each ate 1 damperette for dinner (would have had more if I thought I could afford the calories) and am looking forward to breakfast for the next couple days! Thanks very much Caroline.
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Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
