Mosbolletjies, home cultured butter, wild seeds

Jean Delport

Jean Delport

10th June 2024
Jean Delport

Mosbolletjies, home cultured butter, wild seeds

90 min

Traditional south African harvest style bread, on the buildup to wine season, we have curated a bread course that showcases a piece of my home. We put a twist on the bread with a few nods to the gardens. Various butters and condiments bring the bread to life and showcases cape cooking in the height of the season.

Ingredients

Mosbolletjies Dough

  • 900g Flour
  • 24g Salt
  • 100g Sugar
  • 3 tbs Aniseed, toasted & blitz
  • 1 tbs Caraway seeds, toasted & blitz
  • 20g Fresh yeast
  • 80g Wine must
  • 200ml Milk
  • 6 ea Eggs
  • 180g Butter

Kumquat Atcha

  • 500g preserved kumquats
  • 100g green mango atcha
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 2 tsp curry powder
  • 1 tbsp mango powder

Shallot Reduction

  • 2 ea medium Shallots (finely chopped)
  • 125ml Madera
  • 125ml Caster sugar
  • 250ml red wine
  • 250ml raspberry vinaigrette

Herbed goats butter

  • 400g Local unsalted goat’s butter
  • 150g mixed soft herbs (chervil/ parsley / chives)

Cultured butter

  • 2L Local double cream
  • 10g Koji - Aspergillus oryzae strain

Melted Butter

  • 40g koji cultured butter
  • 5g Biltong spice mix
  • 5g Shallot reduction
  • 5g Smoked mushroom garum
  • 3g fine herbs, chopped

Method

Mosbolletjies Dough

Mix all dry ingredients in large stand mixer. Warm milk to tepid temperature, add fresh yeast and grape must. Add eggs and milk mixture to the stand mixer and bring together to form a soft dough. Mix for 5 minutes on medium speed.
Slowly add softened butter and mix until fully incorporated. Leave to prove for two hours, knock back and shape as desired, allow to prove second time.
We cook our bread in traditional cast iron pots, bake at 175°c until crisp and golden outside, keeping bread texture soft inside. We glaze ours with fermented honey and garnish with wild seeds.

Kumquat Atcha

Mix all ingredients together, heat and cook till desired consistency making sure the spices are fully cooked out.

Herbed goats butter:

Combine and pacotize three times in the paco jet.

Cultured butter

Heat the cream until 85°c, leave at this temperature for 1 hour. Drop the temperature to 55°c and add the Koji. Cover and allow to stand at room temperature to culture for 1-2 days or until desired flavour.
Strain and whip cream until the butter splits, wash butter in ice water until clear.

Melted Butter

Melt the butter down in open wood fire, tableside we add the spice mix, shallot reduction, garum and fine herbs. Stir all together well to incorporate.

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