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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Exploits delivered to your door sir ;) I have been rather remiss and too slow updating this thread I realise, it's just the time of year for me here, 'tis madness without out a doubt. Worry ye not, I shall desist from itemising my travails and get straight to the bread. I have made six more loaves in three batches of two, all of them hand made. The first batch made with a seeded flour mix produced for machine or hand bake, turned out rather well I thought. [img]http://digitao.co.uk/asylum/bread2.jpg[/img] Righto says I, I'm virtually an expert now I shall try my hand at wholemeal flour with live yeast. The yeast kindly given to me by the bakers in Asda, gratis. One of the central reasons for my learning all this bread making malarkey is to try to produce a loaf of bread that is free from any nasty additives, and just oozes with health. So this one is just wholemeal flour, a teaspoon of salt, a little sugar to liquidise and boost the yeast and ½ oz of margarine. [img]http://digitao.co.uk/asylum/bread3.jpg[/img] This ^^ attempt tasted OK but I felt like I perhaps had not let it rise enough. So in this latest attempt I decided to give the bread [b]two[/b] periods of proving. I also had the bright idea of not using the teaspoonful or so of salt listed in the ingredients. I used a little honey mixed in warm water to slightly glaze the top of the loaf, and help the sprinkle of pumpkin seeds adhere to the bread. [img]http://digitao.co.uk/asylum/bread4.jpg[/img] The thing is, even though this batch does not look as appetising as the other two with its flat top, it tasted rather good. I wont say great because I slightly overcooked it, something to do with using a fan oven. The Great Spirit of Yuletide (Yule is 21st of December) is bringing us a bread making machine I have heard on good authority and I have no qualms about using that either. What I don't particularly like is the flour mix I have seen sold specifically for bread machines. It has a lot of "added" stuff like preservatives "E"s and the like that I am trying to eliminate in my life. The goal now is to establish a good basic wholemeal bread making recipe for myself so I can learn it down to a tee, no problem. Then I plan to experiment with that by adding nuts, perhaps fruits and whatever else that may work. Oh yes I aslo want to get a good unleavened loaf down pat too, a soda bread perhaps. Nearly forgot...Suho that bread looks beautiful I can almost taste it. [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5635] [img]http://www.tao.serveit.org/sigs/taosnow4.gif[/img] [/url] [i]Those who look for monsters should look to it that they do not become monsters. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.[/i] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4175]Tao[/url] on 12-18-2008 03:10)[/small] Loading...
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