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 […]
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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My Bread Made Easy Membership will transform your bread making skills. When you become a member you get access to a lot of benefits. This includes all of my pre-recorded online courses that you can watch at your own pace in the comfort of your own home, even whilst you are baking. You get access
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Well, it’s taken me 15 years to try the no knead bread method out for myself. I am not sure why I haven’t tried it before, it may have been scepticism that it surely couldn’t be that easy to make bread and for it to taste good. I should have ignored my sceptical self and
This is a delicious way to use up some stale bread. You can use any bread that you have left over, but I do think that stale white bread works best. It seems to soak up the custard and give a better contrast between lovely, soft, pillowy pudding with caramelised crusts on the top layer.
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Guest Post by Jonathan Thomas This article is a collection of Facebook posts written by Jonathan Thomas on the Bread Made Easy Facebook group. I have collected them together here as I think they make interesting reading. You can pop over to the Facebook group to read the comments of others and to add your
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A question I am often asked is “Do I need to add sugar to my bread dough?”. The simple answer is no. Bread dough only needs flour, water and yeast to work, but adding salt, whilst optional, improves the flavour and the texture of the dough. Why add sugar? Many recipes for bread include a
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August 2022 As Veg Patch Kitchen Cookery School approaches its 8th anniversary there are some big changes taking place here at VPK HQ. The past two years have been difficult as a small business owner, first with the pandemic and now with increasing running costs and the squeeze on everyone’s purses. The uptake of my
The weather can really affect how your dough ferments. This is true when using commercial yeast and sourdough. If the weather is warm, the yeast works more quickly. Yeast is most active at 38C ( and dies at 55C) so if the temperature in your kitchen is heading towards the high 20’s/ 30’s (above 80f)
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