CRAZY DOUGH FOR EVERYTHING
Serves: about 4 lb (1.8 kg) dough
1 cup (220 ml, 220 g) milk, lukewarm
2 teaspoons sugar
80 g fresh yeast (or 4 teaspoons active dry yeast or 4 tsp instant yeast)
6⅔ cup (1 kg) all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 twaspoons salt
1½ cup (360 ml, 360 g) plain yogurt
2 whole eggs
In a small bowl, combine lukewarm milk with sugar and yeast. Let stand until yeast activates. It will become foamy and start expanding.
Put the yeast mixture together with all other ingredients in a bowl of your mixer or food processor. Mix well. You should get soft dough, similar to pizza dough. If the dough is too dry, add a little bit of milk or water. If it is too soft, add just a little bit of flour.
You can use Crazy Dough immediately. Shape it into whatever shape you like, wait a little bit (15-20 minutes in the warm kitchen) until it starts expanding, then pop in hot oven.
Notes
Put Crazy Dough in a plastic bag, squeeze the air out and close the bag. Just to be safe, you can put it all together in another bag because the dough will continue expanding and the first bag could burst.
Keep it in your fridge for up to 3 days. You can freeze it, too.
Vetkoek photo: Thomas En Brigitte Marx
