Baking

[Cyclist33]

Im baking a couple of loaves. Both are the same - cinnamon oat and honey bread. One of them has got white stilton with apricots wrapped up inside.

They do smell rather nice!

Anyone else "knead their own"??

Stu

 

[Aperitif]

Yes, but not at 01:01 though...
My biggest problem with baking is cutting all the slices the same thickness and printing the wrapper...apart from that, it's one of the few things I don't take the rise out of!

 

[summerdays]

Yes but I cheat and use a bread machine to do the hard work and produce the dough, then I put it in the oven to bake.

 

[vernon]

My cousin got jailed for making his own bread.

He didn't realise that colour photocopiers don't quite match the quality of the offset litho and intaglio processes used by the Bank of Englands's printers.

 

[Hitchington]

I do once in a while. Wholemeal with honey and sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Might bake one today !

 

[ttcycle]

I bake my own and occasionally use the bread machine. It's great isn't it? Beat the hell out of the dough!!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Olive bread or wholemeal sunflower: nice and easy.
Used to make olive bread and sell it

 

[ttcycle]

Olive bread or wholemeal sunflower: nice and easy.
Used to make olive bread and sell it

Yuuum! Sounds tasty!

 

[naminder]

I bake my own and occasionally use the bread machine. It's great isn't it? Beat the hell out of the dough!!

Sounds therapeutic, perhaps I'll have ago

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Sounds therapeutic, perhaps I'll have ago

It is! Give it a try Naminder.

 

[ttcycle]

Sounds therapeutic, perhaps I'll have ago

Yes defintely. Do try. Keep kneading and pulling the dough apart and re-kneading it until it;s springy and smooth. It's not as bothersome and complex as it seems. Really fun!

 

[coffeejo]

My cousing got jailed for making his own bread.

He didn't realise that colour photocopiers don't quite match the quality of the offset litho and intaglio processes used by the Bank of Englands's printers.

D'oh

 

[Trail Child]

I bake mine in the bread machine once a week.

 

[deanE]

Im baking a couple of loaves. Both are the same - cinnamon oat and honey bread. One of them has got white stilton with apricots wrapped up inside.

They do smell rather nice!

Anyone else "knead their own"??

Stu

Recipe please?

 

[Cyclist33]

Recipe please?

I used this recipe for the dough (2/3 quantity throughout) and worked about a breakfast portion of porage oats, a fat spoon of thick honey and a spoonful of cinnamon powder into the wet mix before the kneading process. They're not the best ones I've done actually. Too salty. I'm going to revert to my Chinese dough recipe, it's not as fluffy as a baguette, say, but versatile and really good for onion buns!

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/705/the-perfect-white-loaf.aspx