Thursday, January 13, 2011

Toast bread


I bake nearly all bread we eat here at home and here is a recipe I have tried, tested, changed and finally I am happy with. It is very basic and easy to bake and makes one great big loaf good for slicing and freezing, then you will always have toast bread at home. It can be made very plain but I like to add extra goodness such as whole wheat flour and seeds.

500 grams white flour
150 grams whole wheat flour
10 grams dried yeast
500ml milk
50 grams butter
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp golden syrup
2 hand fulls of mixed seeds (lins seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds...)

Melt butter and add milk and heat until luke warm, add golden syrup. Dissolve yeast in the liquid. In a bowl mix flours, salt and seeds. Pour the liquid in to the dry mix and blend with a wooden spoon. When it comes together to a dough start kneading with floured hands. When the dough is elastic put aside to prove for 1h or until it has doubled in size.
Tip the dough out on to a floured surfade and shape in to one loaf. Put in a bread tin and let prove again until double in size.
Bake on 225C for 10min, turn down heat to 200C and bake for another 20min. Take the loaf out of the tin and bake for 5 more minutes to get a crust all around. Let cool on a rack before slicing.

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