Bread can be very relaxing to make and bake. This braided Italian loaf, covered with sesame seeds delivers a great texture and lovely flavour to savour after a relaxing day baking. For a very tasty bread I don’t think you can go far wrong if some sesame seeds are sprinkled over the crust. So for […]
When I buy bread in a supermarket it is always wholemeal and very often has seeds in as well. I often make my own bread, of differing kinds, so today I thought I would make some seeded wholemeal. However wholemeal flour tends to give a much denser bread that can achieved in commercial production. To […]
Continuing with recipes for Christmas, today I have Vánočka which is a Czech Christmas Bread. The Czechs, in common with many people in Central and Eastern Europe, celebrate Christmas on 24th December and this bread is served for breakfast in many homes. It is a traditional bread made with an enriched dough and flavoured with […]
Cottage Loaf is a traditional type of bread made in England for hundreds of years. Not so popular these days, as it cannot be readily found in most baker’s shops, it is a very good bread and is ideal for eating with soup or as a sandwich. The shape of the loaf is unusual in […]
I have been wanting to make some bread with rye flour, and in time I will make one with just rye as the flour. But rye flour doesn’t contain much gluten so it makes a very dense bread, such as Pumpernickel. That is a lovely bread, but not what I needed at the moment. So […]
Today I decided to do a savoury recipe. This one is for a bread that you can easily tear apart to enjoy with soup, pasta etc. I wanted to have a herby taste and with garlic too, and then for additional flavour I decided to add some grated parmesan cheese. The recipe for the dough […]
As I was thinking about what I could bake my thoughts turned to Easter. So I decided that, having made Hot Cross Buns on the blog and in videos I would need to do something a little different. So I took to researching on the internet what I might make. I came up with a […]
Home made bread is always a treat, even if it sometimes takes a lot of work. The aroma of baking bread is hard to beat. But it is great to be able to make some bread with very little effort, even if it does take a while. That is why a no knead recipe is […]
As I am soon going over to Canada to visit my sister’s family I thought I would test out my recipe for a cinnamon swirl loaf. I would usually want to add raisins as well but I am aware that my great-nieces don’t like raisins in their bread so I made mine without. For the […]
Somebody suggested that I might like to make some bread cones. I hadn’t really thought about it until then, but set about looking to see some. I watched a few videos and decided that they would be quite simple to make and a novel way to eat lunch. As ever, with bread, the recipe takes […]