I wanted to share the magic of my trusted Bread Machine with you, but then she gave up the ghost, so I had to resort to the manual version, still turned out great with a little more effort!
The magic of the bread machine is that I can place everything into it at bedtime, and wake up to the aroma of freshly baked bread reaching all the way through to the bedroom in the morning!
Not knowing she was not going to do her job this time, I trustingly placed the ingredients into the bread machine.
Ingredients
Place into bread machine or bowl in order given below:
A nice big blob of Butter
3 tablespoons Honey
1 teaspoon Salt
200ml natural Yogurt, at room temperature
250ml warm Water
Add:
3 1/2 cups Wholemeal Flour
Handful each of Raisins, Sunflower Seeds, Flax Seeds
7 grams Dried Yeast
So all this had to be tossed into my Kenwood mixer for a good kneading,
quite a messy job getting it in, but the dough came together nicely.
I recently discovered that the Wonderbag I wrote about in one of my 'Dead Posts', Cooking in a Fabric Bag is fantastic for proving yeast dough.
Snugly inside the Wonderbag
Hardly an hour later and dough has risen more than double in size.
I used two smaller bread pans, sprayed them with non stick cooking spray and sprinkled sunflower seeds on the base.
Dough evenly divided with more sunflower seeds sprinkled on top.
Nicely risen now, and ready to be baked at 180 C in a fan oven.
Beautifully baked bread with the most divine aroma.
A nice big blob of butter will soon be melting on that slice of hot bread; note half the loaf has already been eaten!
Hope you enjoyed watching my breadbake, wish I could give you a slice :)
