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 […]
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 old fashioned bread pudding transforms a staling crust into a delicious treat. Ingredients 225g bread (any bread that you have left over)300g milk 50g butter, melted1 egg75g soft brown sugar175g dried fruitRind and juice of 1 orange2 teaspoon mixed spiceDemerara sugar to sprinkle over the top (about 2 tablespoons) Method Line a 2lb loaf
These are so much tastier (and better for you) than any tortilla you can buy. They are easy and quick to make too. I often make these if I have forgotten to make a loaf (this sometimes does happen!) This recipe is just one of the flatbreads I teach you how to make on my
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You can make these ‘boogasse’ out of any bread dough. I had a pumpkin so I made my pumpkin bread recipe for these. They made the perfect accompaniment to pumpkin soup. Fougasse is normally one large cut in the centre of the dough and several smaller cuts up the side to give a leaf effect
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This recipe makes use of a pre-ferment to add flavour and texture to this bread which is ideal for bruschetta or serving with soups and stews to sop up the flavours. You can read more about using preferments here. Ciabatta, which translates as Slipper, was invented in the 1980’s by an Italian baker as a
It’s that time of year again where if you grow your own you will be surrounded by pumpkins and even if you don’t grow your own there are plenty in the shops ( at least I hope they are…). I first made this bread and posted the recipe back in 2016 on my other website
Tiger bread has a delicious savoury/sweet/slightly salty glaze that cracks as it bakes and makes a really delicious loaf. Ingredients For loaf: (Simple white loaf recipe but you could use any bread recipe that you like) 500g strong, white (bread) flour10g fine sea salt5g (or 1 sachet 7g) easy bake/ fast action/ instant yeast or
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These bagels are easy to make at home and taste so much better than any that you can buy from the supermarket. They freeze well too, once baked, so you could make some for today and some for the freezer. Ingredients for bagels 500g strong white bread flour (you could use very strong for this
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Making a new loaf out of an old one I always have crusts of loaves lying on my bread board and so I often make a new loaf out of the old one. I got the idea from James Morton’s Brilliant Bread book. He calls it The Revival Loaf, I am calling it the Recycled
