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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 one from [...]

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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, muffins [...]

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 the Lepard [...]

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 [...]

Barm bread

March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Baking

This was another pass on Dan Lepard’s barm bread from The Handmade Loaf. (I posted an earlier attempt here.)
Very nice it was too.
To make the barm, you need 250g of bottle-conditioned ale. In this case, I used the delicious Admiral’s Ale, produced by the St Austell Brewery in Cornwall (or the “Snozzle brewery”…). Heat it [...]

Handmade loaves

February 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Baking

Although I blog about my baking over at Cake-Off, the emphasis there is on cakes, cupcakes, tray-baked cakes, biscuits, cookies and all things sweet and yummy. For my bread-making, I’m going to try and write about it a little more here.
I’ve been making bread on and off most of my adult life, starting, like much [...]

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