Daily Bread
No Knead Bread made with half wholemeal spelt flour and half plain white flour is so very, very good and much more successful than trying it with ordinary wholewheat flour. I think this really will become my every day bread recipe. Of course I don’t eat enough bread to make it every single day, but it’s perfect to make a couple of times a week and delightfully simple.
I’ve also been working on perfecting a recipe of my own. I often bake with whatever is to hand without bothering to measure things. This usually works, the only problem is that it normally works best first time and results in things that I can’t re-create. This was one of those things, I made it on holiday and my mum and aunt insisted I start writing recipes down so that they could re-create them. So I’ve been trying to re-create this and I think, after a bit of trial and error, I know what will work, but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. As soon as I’m happy with it I’ll share it here, because it really was wonderful - indulgent, rich and healthy. For now here’s a peek at the ingredients alongwith a promise that I’ll start attempting to give more helpful replies to the ‘how did you make this?’ query than ‘threw stuff in bowl and mixed it together!’
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under knitting.
Comments: 6
Comments
Comment from Lesa
Time: September 29, 2007, 3:03 pm
mmmm, I love home made bread. When I was a stay-at-home-most-of-the-time-mommy, I baked a lot of bread. I mix whole wheat and white flour as well with a teeny tiny touch of honey.
Comment from Claire
Time: September 29, 2007, 3:15 pm
Hmmm, I can’t think what you are going to make that uses avacado and chocolate! - I’m intrigued.
Comment from Liz
Time: September 29, 2007, 7:36 pm
I think that as soon as I pick up a pan/pot to bake bread in, I’m going to try that recipe. We have some great bakeries in the area, but nothing makes an apartment smell like a loaf of freshed baked bread…and in an apartment with 5 20 somethings, you know it needs to be freshened.
Comment from Joan
Time: September 30, 2007, 3:49 pm
I think the no knead bread recipe is pure genius. I have only ever made it with all purpose flour though…so far. I will have to try whole wheat/whole meal next.
I know that you obviously have read some Neil Gaiman [Coraline!]. I just picked up volume one of Sandman last night, have you read those?
Comment from Chair
Time: September 30, 2007, 8:13 pm
No Knead? What’s the point?!
:)
Kneading is my favorite part of the whole break-making process, it just feels to good to me to get my hands into some dough and feel it becoming smooth.
Comment from Sarah
Time: October 1, 2007, 8:37 am
Ooh I have some spelt flour in the cupboard that I might give that bread a shot with.
The pile of ingredients look very intriguing, looking forward to the recipe for those :o)
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