avocado Chocs Away Going a bit mad with the experiments, I decided to make chocolate and banana chip bread. I used spelt flour for a change and added an avocado instead of butter. The chocolate was provided via a dark chocolate spread from Whole Earth. Chocolate & Banana Bread Chocolate & Banana Bread
avocado Spelt Bread Spelt Bread made with avocado Plain Spelt Chocolate & Banana Chip Cashew & Raisin
BREAD Fatless Up until now, I have been adding fat to my dough, either olive oil or butter. I demonstrated the effect on calories using each and I’ve really wanted to make some dough without using any fat. This week I gave it a go. Ingredients * 500g Strong Flour * 2tsp Salt
BREAD Chocolate This week was different, I came by a recipe for a pain au chocolate recipe and although it wasn’t bread exactly, the dough seemed pretty similar. The key difference was that this dough had a whole block of butter in it. It made the dough very difficult to work
BREAD Cheating Flour Mix Today, I’m cheating with bread making. I’m doing this because I’m about to spend a week on holiday in Cornwall and I wanted to make some bread to take with me. So, as result, I’m using a pre-prepared flour mix from Waitrose. It’s
BREAD Dough, Remixed With the dough back up to room temperature on the Sunday morning, it was decision time as to what to do with it. I wanted to make a white loaf, just as a control to check the taste against the previous efforts. With the other two, I went out there.
BREAD The Overnight Manoeuvre This weekend, I decided to try out a couple of new tweaks to the standard white bread recipe and push the envelope by adding some extra ingredients to the mix. I was pleased with last week’s effort, using normal olive oil certainly tasted a lot better than extra virgin
BREAD Easy On The Oil With my first attempt at bread making gone reasonably well, it was time to tricky and awkward second album or sequel. Having reflected on the taste of the first and that slight sour flavour, I bought some light olive oil to use instead of the extra virgin olive oil. Although
BREAD Next Time The next time I bake some bread, I want to leave the dough in the fridge overnight because apparently, the taste is enhanced. I’ve bought some light olive oil to improve the taste too, so between the two, I should have better white bread this next time.
BREAD The First Attempt Here we are, my first attempt making bread. I carried out some research (google) and found a basic recipe to begin with, I decided what I wanted to do is find a simple white bread recipe that I could practice with. Something that I could master and make some decent