Sounds very tasty, and so simple. I always thought bread-making would be a lot more complicated than it is until I actually tried it (and it gets even simpler if you bake yeast-free quick breads!).
Thanks Rercy, this sounds very tasty and easy to do, especially if you make several at a time. I will try it soon. Just one question: do you freeze the whole loaf? if so, how do you defreeze it? (I often freeze slices, but had never thought of freezing an entire loaf)
Aidan: yeast free quick bread sounds very good too, (esp as my boyfriend is allergic to yeast). Can you recommend a recipe? Thanks!
Hey Melanie, I freeze the whole loaf. When you take it out you can let it thaw for a bit and and it’s ready to cut and you can toast it or if you want to have it untoasted, you have to let it thaw out completely for a couple of hours.
I haven’t tried yeast free yet. Aidan, can Bicarbonate of Soda or baking powder be used instead of yeast?
Melanie, Rercy,
The method for quick breads (like soda bread or wheaten loaves) is much the same as in the recipe above, except without the half hour to let the dough rise. The rise comes from adding baking soda (bicarbonate of soda), which is alkaline, to an acidic ingredient like buttermilk, milk soured with lemon juice, or yoghurt. You mix and put it straight in a warmed oven.
There’s a recipe here (http://www.iol.ie/~discover/recipe.htm) for brown bread, but there are thousands of variations on the theme if you try some Googling. I’m not the best personally at following recipes so I tend to look at them for ideas and then throw it together on judgement (which may not always work out as I imagined but is fun!). Once you get the basic recipe they’re easy to play around with – at various stages I’ve added nuts, fruit, chillis, roasted squash, beer(s), orange juice and honey. Yum.
This is great! Was eating too much wheat and feeling worse for wear for it. I found my local Supervalu makes this in-store for €2.19 and its yum. I’ll definitely be giving this recipe a go – nothing like homemade bread!
Friday 16 October, 2009 at 10:46 am
Sounds very tasty, and so simple. I always thought bread-making would be a lot more complicated than it is until I actually tried it (and it gets even simpler if you bake yeast-free quick breads!).
Friday 16 October, 2009 at 11:40 am
Thanks Rercy, this sounds very tasty and easy to do, especially if you make several at a time. I will try it soon. Just one question: do you freeze the whole loaf? if so, how do you defreeze it? (I often freeze slices, but had never thought of freezing an entire loaf)
Aidan: yeast free quick bread sounds very good too, (esp as my boyfriend is allergic to yeast). Can you recommend a recipe? Thanks!
Friday 16 October, 2009 at 11:45 am
I think I’m gonna try this at the weekend! Made regular brown bread last Saturday but it didn’t really do it for me.
Friday 16 October, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Hey Melanie, I freeze the whole loaf. When you take it out you can let it thaw for a bit and and it’s ready to cut and you can toast it or if you want to have it untoasted, you have to let it thaw out completely for a couple of hours.
I haven’t tried yeast free yet. Aidan, can Bicarbonate of Soda or baking powder be used instead of yeast?
Friday 16 October, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Thanks for the info Rercy, it makes it much more worthwhile to make my own bread!
Friday 16 October, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Melanie, Rercy,
The method for quick breads (like soda bread or wheaten loaves) is much the same as in the recipe above, except without the half hour to let the dough rise. The rise comes from adding baking soda (bicarbonate of soda), which is alkaline, to an acidic ingredient like buttermilk, milk soured with lemon juice, or yoghurt. You mix and put it straight in a warmed oven.
There’s a recipe here (http://www.iol.ie/~discover/recipe.htm) for brown bread, but there are thousands of variations on the theme if you try some Googling. I’m not the best personally at following recipes so I tend to look at them for ideas and then throw it together on judgement (which may not always work out as I imagined but is fun!). Once you get the basic recipe they’re easy to play around with – at various stages I’ve added nuts, fruit, chillis, roasted squash, beer(s), orange juice and honey. Yum.
Friday 16 October, 2009 at 9:54 pm
This is great! Was eating too much wheat and feeling worse for wear for it. I found my local Supervalu makes this in-store for €2.19 and its yum. I’ll definitely be giving this recipe a go – nothing like homemade bread!
Monday 19 October, 2009 at 10:18 am
Thanks for that Aidan, will give it a go!
Wednesday 21 October, 2009 at 12:10 pm
What temperature oven should the bread go into?
Wednesday 21 October, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Thanks for the recipe. Looks great x
Monday 26 October, 2009 at 7:55 pm
What is the temperature?