This is a lovely bread well worth making. You can add any muesli that you might have in the cupboard or just add a mixture of oats, nuts and dried fruit. You can add 50-100g of muesli to a simple white bread or follow my recipe below to add more taste and fibre to your […]
This is a great recipe for using up that bit of bread that is languishing on your bread board, getting staler and staler. I always have lots of bread in this house (from testing recipes, running bread courses etc) and I hate to throw them away. In truth, if they don’t get transformed they go
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If you are lucky enough to have wild garlic local to you then I urge you to go out and harvest some. It is delicious added to your bread dough like I have done here in this recipe, or made into a garlic butter and used in my wild garlic bread – two ways. Wild
Making a wholemeal loaf can be quite different from making a white loaf as the flour will absorb more water because of the bran and germ. Wholemeal dough benefits from the stretch and fold method, as kneading can be too harsh. When kneading the constant stretching will mean that the bran pieces shear the gluten
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This oat and honey bread is our eldest’s favourite loaf. It has a denser texture due to the oats, with a delicious sweetness with the honey. It makes lovely toast and is great with soup. Ingredients 350g strong (aka bread) white flour100g wholemeal bread flour50g porridge oats or jumbo oats5g easy bake (aka instant yeast)yeast
One of the things that we have plenty of in this household is bread. If I don’t have a course then I am either making bread for us to eat or I am experimenting with new techniques and new flavours. We often have three (or more) crusts of various loaves sitting on the bread board.
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