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Recent entries
experiment more with food
I had hemp milk today

nuff said



bake my own bread
healthy, tasty and fresh

I wish I had started before! Ready to go yeast makes this so much easier and quicker. I usually make a strong whole wheat organic flour loaf with plenty of added seeds.

Ingredients:
500g flour
40g mixed seeds
25g butter
1 tsp easy yeast
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
hand hot water

WASH your hands!

Mixing the ingredients together takes about 10 mins, put the flour (you can warm it first in your oven for 5-10 mins on the lowest heat setting if you like), yeast, seeds, salt, sugar in a bowl. Add the butter and get stuck in rubbing it all between your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs, ensure there are no big globs of butter and add a little of the water. get stuck in with your hands again (it will be a little sticky!) and gradually add water and squish until you have a cohesive ball of dough. No flour or bits of dough should remain on the bowl.

Sprinkle some flour on a clean kitchen surface and mold the dough into the shape required. I sometimes give it a few punches, it is satisfying. Then transfer in to a well buttered bread tin. Cover with a clean, damp tea towel (to prevent it drying out) and leave somewhere warm (airing cupboard) for 30 mins, 40 mins to an hour at room temperature.

Return and marvel at the yeasty reaction. You can sprinkle some flour on the top if you are that way inclined. Then pop into a preheated oven (200 degrees C) for 35 mins.

Ding! Your house should be filled with the delicious aroma of baking bread. Mmmmmmmm. Taking care not to burn yourself, remove the bread from the oven, tip the loaf out of the tin and return to the oven for another 5 mins to crisp the sides.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack, or anything else that is similar in function, or, if you are anything like me, cut off a chunk slather it with butter and scoff it. Slightly scorched fingers are worth it!

No yucky fake food loaded with additives, over packaged and over priced. Once you start there’ll be no turning back.

Enjoy.




 

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