Pane Pugliese Recipe This is an Italian bread from the Puglia region using durum wheat. Durum wheat is most commonly used in pasta but here it lends a beautiful yellow colour to a tasty bread. The dough has to be a bit stickier than it normally would be to allow the finely ground durum wheat […]
This recipe for Apple Betty uses up your stale bread, transforming it into a delicious pudding. It is similar to my breadcrumb crumble with a slightly different method and without the oats. This is achieved by browning the breadcrumbs before combining with sugar and melted butter. You are going to need to watch the bread
A Stottie is a regional bread from Northern England, specifically Tyneside where it is traditionally enjoyed slathered with pease pudding and a slice of ham. I have been enjoying it by splitting it in half and spreading it generously with garlic and parsley butter a few minutes after it comes out of the oven whilst
The concha is a Mexican sweet bun served (and dipped into) milk or hot chocolate. The special bit is the sweet crunchy topping (equal amounts of flour, butter and sugar) which you apply before baking. It becomes crunchy and treacly and makes for a special bun. I have used the scalding method for these buns,
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One of my Bread Made Easy Members recently asked me to come up with a vegan recipe for enriched dough. I hadn’t tried making a sweet vegan dough before and I was very happy with the results. The texture is excellent. I used all oat milk the first time I made it and it made
A useful trick for improving the flavour, texture and keeping qualities of your bread is to add in a bit of dough from the loaf before. This technique is called “Pate Fermentee” and is just one way of adding some pre fermented flour into your dough. The pre-ferment improves the flavour of the dough adding
Bread sauce loaf I love bread sauce and I love bread so this combination is a winner for me. It tastes exactly like bread sauce – oniony and cloves. I share my bread sauce recipe first. Then if you happen to have some left over then I urge you to make this bread. Bread Sauce
Beetroot bread is a wonderful bread that can take on a gorgeous deep red hue, especially if you use cooked beetroot. The dough above is made with cooked beetroot and the resulting bread had a pale pink hue, hardly noticeable to the beetroot hater in this house and it has to be said that they
My cheese and Marmite soda bread is quick to make, raised by bicarbonate of soda rather than yeast, so it can be on your dinner table in less than an hour. It is delicious eaten warm from the oven. It stales quite quickly as it is more of a cake than a bread but it
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You can adapt this recipe really easily. You can use chocolate spread and chunks of chocolate or Biscoff spread or cinnamon butter. Once you know how to shape this bread you can make a simple white dough instead and use pesto, olive tapenade or harissa. You could also use puff pastry. Ingredients 300g strong white
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