Monday, 16 May 2011

Daily bread

In 2009 I blogged about my disasters in breadmaking and since then I have had the odd go at it in the hope to one day make all our bread from scratch and stop having to buy it. Well, nearly 2 years later I think I may have finally cracked it!

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For the past month all of our bread has been made from scratch and its been lovely and light in the middle and not at all like a house brick. Id love to say that I finally discovered how to do it but it was actually watching Chris make bread and using the recipe he uses which has turned it around (yes if your reading this you were right!) I have found that if I bake 2 loaves twice a week, putting one loaf into the freezer till the first is used up, this is plenty for our weekly needs

So this morning me and Emy got busy making the dough

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While it was proving we did our food shop for the week, when we came home it had doubled up so we gave it another knead, cut it into 2 and left to rise again while we went exploring in the woods

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Emy found a tree cave to put her new lego Dr Who weeping angels in

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Came home and popped the risen dough in the oven and tah dahhh! 2 wholemeal poppy seed loaves :-)

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