Her indoors has been complaining that shop bought bread has been giving her irritable bowl syndrome, so we have been experimenting with home made bread.
Firstly we borrowed a bread maker, it was ok, but the loaf was a silly size and shape, i detest the hole in the bottom of the bread making a portion of it useless, the bread maker takes up a lot of room when its not being used, and it was a distinctly soulless and boring process.
So I progressed to completely 100% hand made bread, and it works really well and tastes great.
500g strong bread flower (I use wholemeal)
8gm Dried yeast
2 teaspoons of sugar
2 teaspoons of salt
2 tablespoons of dried milk powder (marvel)
300 ml of carbonated water ( I use peligrino)
3 tablespoons of olive oil
Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl
pour the olive oil in the water
make a dip in the dry ingredients then pour in the oil water mix.
Mix the ingredients thoroughly, adding up to two tablespoons of water if required to get everything mixed.
Use hands to get the dough mixed into a ball in the bowl, then tip out onto a floured board
and kneed for a full ten minutes, stretching the dough and repeatedly folding over.
*place dough in loaf tin, and allow to prove for an hour or till it doubles in size
knock back the dough, then allow to prove again for an hour or till it doubles in size.
In the oven at 200c for 30 minutes. Tip out of tin onto a grid to cool.
Bingo - superb bread, and such a fabulous feeling making your own bread by hand.
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