Yesterday I needed to bake some bread because I gave up buying it when I retired and decided to try something different for a change. I regularly bake wholemeal and basic white bread so now it was time to really go for it and as I had bought some granary flour, I made a granary loaf.
Although I used my own basic dough recipe I was totally unprepared for what happened when I began to knead the bread. Because it has whole toasted grains in the flour, when you initially start the kneading process the seeds pop out all over the kitchen, including the floor. The only way to deal with this was to change my kneading technique which meant swishing the dough round after the stretch to gather up the wayward seeds. The bread, once baked was absolutely delicious so I will definitely make that a regular addition to the larder.
Another bread that I had never made is pitta bread so I had a go at this too. In fact I cheated because I used my easy pizza recipe and divided the dough into six portions. Trust me, if you ever make your own pitta I can guarantee that you will never buy the pathetic, soggy white stuff from the supermarket again. My pittas puffed up beautifully and were still like that when I put four of them into the freezer for another day. The ones I had for supper were easy to fill with the salad, hummus and lamb koftas because they were so easy to split. I have never found it easy to split the ones from the supermarket. Definitely a couple for me to try when Eden comes over!
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