This is a Eastern Med bread, from Greece, Cyprus, Turkey. I’ve bought it from Turkish grocers in England, but never knew what it was called. Daktyla apparently means “fingers” in Greek. Supposedly the loaf resembles a row of fingers, or somesuch. Whatever, it’s very pleasant to eat, and visually pleasing for plonking on the table [...]
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Pide
September 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Baking
I used to make a flatbread like this years ago but lost the recipe, so glad to rediscover this one. “Pide” is basically the same word as “pita” as far as I can make out, meaning simply “bread”. Unlike what’s commonly meant by pita, this pide doesn’t have a pocket. Instead, it’s a spongier bread, [...]
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A box of bread
July 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Baking
Here’s some of the bread I did, catering for a birthday party. From the left: fougasse, apple and oat loaf, alsace loaf with rye.
Maize bread
June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Baking
This one uses polenta, as well as maize flour (I used Cool Chile Co Masa harina). I thought the result would be crumbly and a bit dry, but it’s not. Instead, it’s got a good crumb and a pleasant yellowing colour. Quite a handsome loaf too. As with much of my bread-making here, it’s another [...]
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Fougasse
June 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Baking
My first go at fougasse, which look fab but are actually very simple. I followed Richard Bertinet’s recipe from Dough for these ones. It just involves making his basic white dough then shaping it. His basic white dough is 10g fresh yeast rubbed into 500g strong white flour, then 10g salt mixed in, and 350g [...]
Buckwheat muffins
June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Baking
More Dan Lepard from the essential book The Handmade Loaf. Some proper teatime muffins. It’s crazy I feel I have to refer to these as “English muffins”, as I’m English and was eating these long before US-style muffins invaded Britain. Muffins are like yeasted buns, but are cooked on a griddle or hotplate. Alongside crumpets, [...]
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Cute cookies
June 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Baking
We had a bit of a baking frenzy in our house the weekend just gone. Which is actually fairly normal, but we possibly made even more stuff than usual on this occasion (not discussed here – a Madeira cake with fancy icing and some rolled fruit cookies I may get round to putting on Cake-off), [...]
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Soft white baps
May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Baking
The sort of name to make little boys snigger. And yet my wife Fran even giggled as I typed it… The macro on my camera couldn’t really cope, but in general it’s a lovely pic with the herbiage, so what the heck. Great recipe, from Dan Lepard’s Guardian column. Or here’s the recipe again, on [...]
Pain de campagne
May 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Baking
Ok, they’re not entirely perfect shapes with all that rupturing, but they’re pretty tasty. Pain de campagne – what Richard Bertinent describes as “sourdough’s little brother” – are, alongside baguettes, the classic French bread, though of a decidedly more rustic bent (the name, means “country bread” for anyone with even more rudimentary or non-existent French [...]
Alsace loaf with rye
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Baking
Very pleased with this one. It’s another recipe from Dan Lepard’s The Handmade Loaf, a book that’s kept me busy for many a weekend, and will doubtless do so for years to come. Although I’m yet to perfect my stick-shaping technique, the flavour was delicious, the texture nice and open, the crust crunchy without being [...]
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