Bread

I made a lovely loaf with marmite and carraway seeds. Amazing with some very mature cheddar.

Interesting stuff, my favourite bread is a Mallorcan sourdough, it's a real heavy loaf made with no or very little salt.

Otherwise I'm liking a dried cranberry and walnut sourdough that I've been getting from Wholefoods.

I like that really dense and sweet Jamaican bread - used to buy that in Birmingham, not had it in years

I like proper German-style wholegrain bread. No, really.

I have more or less perfected my basic loaves - honey & walnut, black treacle, and a range of different flour ratios (but usually a 1/3 malthouse & 2/3 strong plain), and have now moved on to soda bread - it doesn't last as long but is dead quick to make. Lovely with a seed mix stirred in. Seedy soda bread with spicy tuna mayo is quickly becoming my favourite sandwich.

i would consider posting, yes, at cost to sender.

we did a guinness and chocolate a couple of weeks ago which was very heaven. the beer and curry saves you tons of money. no need to buy beer or go for a curry

i did a full english loaf a while ago, it had everything bacon, sausages, black pudding, beans. very tasty when toasted and filled with more bacon and sausage and egg and black pudding

You probably already know about this but I have been cooking from Bernard Clayton's Complete Book of Bread for many years and always look to that for ideas. I especially like his English Muffin bread which when sliced and toasted is divine with a poached egg. The book is worth having if you don't already.

Sandwiches are getting slightly off topic but I can reccomend making one of these...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2010/apr/07/how-to-make-shooters-sandwich?intcmp=239

garlic and walnut loaf is good too

im going to have a bash at making that sandwich. maybe not with rib-eye though

i would consider posting, yes, at cost to sender.

Cost for one each of the guiness & chocolate/beer & curry/full english delivered? They all sound awesome.

I like proper German-style wholegrain bread. No, really.

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my very own bread.

Recipe:

My recipe for dough:

***400g White strong '00' Flour
300g Whole meal Flour
300g Semolina Flour

600ml tepid water
5 tbl spoons of Olive oil
1 1/2 Tea spoons of Dried Yeast
1 1/2 tbl spoons of Rock Salt ***

Sieve all the Flours into a big bowl,
dig a big hole in the middle.

On a jug mix all the remaining ingredients on
this particular order: Water, salt, oil, yeast.
(leave to rest for 15min in order to start fermentation)

Start pouring the mix slowly into the bowl and with the help
of a table knife, start 'slicing' the dough, you need air to be kept
inside the all time.

Keep doing this 'til the you have a very sticky dough, it should
by now not stick to the bowl. Cover the dough with loads of white flour.


Cover the bowl with foil, and leave to rest for 18hrs!!!, i normally
put it inside the oven (off!!), it's dry and warmish.

Next day, uncover the bowl, flour a wooden/stone surface with loads
of white flour and roll down flat some muthafuckin' pizzas.

(you can bake some delicious ciabattas with this dough)

(from Food & Pizza Thread)

Yes, I'm single.

single women love bread

We get the Spelt Desem from these good people. Highly recommended style of bread, keeps well and makes full use of the grain's nutrients. http://integrityfoods.ca/

I'm currently baking a chili/oregano foccacia style loaf.
I love the smell of rising bread.
Makes me happy inside.

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If you like your bread bananary and peanutty I wholeheartedly recommend you make banana bread – then coat the slices with a good quarter inch layer of Whole Earth Crunchy Peanut butter – none of that skippy shite – and glaze with a thin spread of strawberry jam, to make the slide down the gullet a bit easier.

Serve with ice-cold milk – any colour but the devils

And pay no heed to naysayers who claim that banana bread is a cake.

I got a bread-maker for my birthday! Purists, save your sanctimony. I know it's easy to do manually and nice to knead the dough and see it rise, but for the time-poor it's great to throw it all in a metal bucket, press a few buttons and wake up to the smell and taste of fresh bread.

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Cinnamon pull-apart pumpkin bread. First ever attempt at a bread and can't sample till I have people over tonight, but even if it's horrible and gets thrown in the bin, it'll have been worth it for the smell that filled the house!

http://techno.boulangerie.free.fr/09-ReussirLeCAP/03-lesFormesEnVideo.html

This is a good little video site, with lots of different shaping styles/techniques.
Makes for good fun.

Does anyone use a mixer with dough hook?
I'm looking into getting one, but wondering if there's a difference in texture/crumb/eslasticity?

Please ignore that it's full of Comic Sans.

If you like your bread bananary and peanutty I wholeheartedly recommend you make banana bread – then coat the slices with a good quarter inch layer of Whole Earth Crunchy Peanut butter

Stop you there.. used to get Whole Earth but switched to Meridian and never looked back. Much nicer and comes in 1kg tubs.