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A homemade bread a day keeps the middle man at bay

Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "This is the recipe I used for years n years back home. Was gobsmacked to find it by googling!

http://baking.about.com/od/yeastbread..."



It sounds like the thing mum got from my SIL last year - that made a cake though, I think there were apples in it or something. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyl...

That's it Janet. That article was interesting.

Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "This is the recipe I used for years n years back home. Was gobsmacked to find it by googling!

http://baking.about.com/od/yeastbread..."

Looks good, I've just pinned it to my recipe board on pinterest. (much easier to keep track of than bookmarking on my computer)

Some one gave me some dough called "Herman" with instructions on how to feed, bake and divide him. I kept it up for a few months, baking a cake ever day or so. I didn't find many takers to pass the dough on to, and after awhile I let it lapse. It made a tasty cake but I decided that it worked out rather expensive with all the flour and sugar I had to keep feeding into the dough. Not long after hubby was diagnosed with diabetes so I decided that there was too much sugar involved with this to be healthy for him - not sure if you can use splendor instead, but you use so much sugar it would be even more expensive using splendor instead! Our favourite cake recipe now is Patti's Grandmother's apple sauce cake! I make that in the breadmaker and use the gallons of apple sauce that I make from our apple trees each year. Only enough left to make one more cake until we grow some more apples now, wasn't a good harvest last year...

I thought the sour dough starter looked a bit 'greedy' and expensive, but thanks for the reminder. - I've got all I need to make Patti's cake, as its raining hard there's not a lot else to do here.

Well Vanessa,

should you care to message me a postal address I'll gladly send some over when I'm back in Wales (currently on a bit of European travel fest).

However, should you consider me to be a member of the monster raving loony party, then feel free to accept these imaginary pixelated bon bons. "(_) (_) (_)" of the blueberry variety of course.

HW

Oooh - can you spare me a few as well Harry? And hello, by the way...

I've got a Herman in the freezer. I've been ignoring him.

That's a good point Rosemary. Cryogenics for bread! Do you think that's what people used in villages and out of the way places years ago to ferment their bread. I'm thinking of isolated farmsteads etc.

Is sourdough what Paul Hollywood was making on his programme on Monday? I thought about making some but don't think having a jar of dough hanging around the kitchen would particularly please my housemates.

Thought about making soda bread after seeing it on Masterchef - looks really quick and easy! Anyone made it before?

Yes I saw that Paul Hollywood programme and bought the book, I think his recipes are on line though.
Soda bread is lovely freshly made, but I have to go out and buy buttermilk, and I can't always get it locally ( unless anybody has any good alternatives for that.)

Soda bread is the topic of this mondays paul hollywood.Lynne, you can make buttermilk by mixing normal milk and vinegar or lemon juice,i've never made it myself, but some of my recipe books give this as an alternative.

Found this on the internet,as all my recipes are for cupcakes.

http://frugalliving.about.com/od/cond...

Lorraine wrote: "Soda bread is the topic of this mondays paul hollywood.Lynne, you can make buttermilk by mixing normal milk and vinegar or lemon juice,i've never made it myself, but some of my recipe books give th..."

Great - thanks for that. It certainly beats a trip to town - I didn't know that, and the link is good too.

No-one does soda bread like the Irish. I just had some for lunch actually


I use milk and vinegar to sour it when I make pancakes. Works great

Thanks Elle, I agree, the first time I had soda bread was at an Irish food fair and served with Irish salmon, it was the best ever.

I've never tasted soda bread, I'll have to give it a try.

I've eaten half of my wholemeal seeded bread, which came out great, and I also made my usual sundried tomato one. I've eaten all of that though, I love it.

Soda bread is wonderful, specially freshly out of the oven and slathered in butter!

I love soda bread.

Think ill try making some this week if I get a day off.

Sourdough is actually better than it sounds, but I draw the line at soda bread - a very large line!

Just put a Ciabatta loaf in it is due out 11.45pm What was I thinking? Should have made a smaller one. Ah well ...

Never mind Pat...you'll enjoy it all the more for the wait.

I've still got a bit of the last white loaf I made but I've lost my taste at the moment so can't really enjoy it. Never mind. Good job these loaves seem to keep really well.

My Gerry had the same when he had chemo, every thing tasted like cardboard. He kept his hair though, beard and all. lol. Hope you get to enjoy your loves real soon.

Oh my loss of taste has nothing to do with the chemo. I managed to pick up a lousy cough and cold and what with my immune system being low it seems to be taking an age to go. The sore throats gone now and my voice is gradually coming back, although still rough and this morning I've found I've got just a little bit of taste back. So things are on the up. My hair has thinned quite a bit but at least I haven't lost it. Can't do much with it though. I've got a wig just in case but haven't had to use it, although it does look a darn sight better than my hair at the moment lol.

Hope your Ciabatta turned out nice and was worth the wait. I'm longing to do my favourite sun dried tomato, cheese and onion bread again soon. I really must try some other recipes as well.

Ah, bread making! A bad habit of mine. I make most of the bread we consume from British loaves to French, Italian flat breads to middle eastern breads and far eastern breads.

One of the most useful things I got was a huge Kenwood chef - that has helped enormously when I am busy (or lazy).

I am having hassles with my current cooker which is dying and is struggling keeping an even heat. Saving up for a replacement though!

I was reading in the paper that the celebrity baker bread man guy (Paul Hollywood) has divorced his wife and ran off with some younger baker. I never knew that bread making could fire such passion, or leave a man feeling unkneaded... :)

Groan....

R.M.F wrote: "I was reading in the paper that the celebrity baker bread man guy (Paul Hollywood) has divorced his wife and ran off with some younger baker. I never knew that bread making could fire such passion,..."

Of course! Have you not seen Wallace and Gromit in "A Matter of Loaf and Death"??

;0)

Karen (Kew) wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "I was reading in the paper that the celebrity baker bread man guy (Paul Hollywood) has divorced his wife and ran off with some younger baker. I never knew that bread making could fire..."

I heard that film was a bit stale...

*groans*

;0)

I had to give the breadmaker a rest. I think the bread triggered my gout :-(

Oh no!

How are you feeling now, Simon?

How the bloody hell is this discussion still going?

It's like a more specific version of that 'Morning!' thread.

Bread makes me fart...the homemade doesn't so much though...bet you all wanted to know that ;o)

Vanessa, I know that carbs are bad for you but seriously...?

Funny 'cos baked beans and other food which usually make you fart doesn't have any affect on me.

Michael wrote: "How the bloody hell is this discussion still going?

It's like a more specific version of that 'Morning!' thread."

Gonna bitch about threads?

Start one then!

Michael wrote: "How the bloody hell is this discussion still going?

It's like a more specific version of that 'Morning!' thread."

Banter will never die. Still, I'd better hold back on the rubbish jokes before I find myself tarred and feathered. :) Sometimes, in this baking/bakery thread, I feel like a secret agent. I suppose you could call me a mince spy...

Oh groan. Giggle groan.

Hi Karen, I am Ok but I had a month of gout moving round my joints. I felt like I was a hundred years old.

Made a loaf last night. Got indigestion today :-)

I can't believe it's nearly four months since I got the machine. Really enjoying the loaves I'm making. Trouble is they don't last very long we eat them so quickly. Still that can't be bad, can it?.. No of course it can't!

I only buy bread for the toaster which I keep in the freezer, its months since I bought bread but the other day I called into the bakers for 'elephants feet'. (choux pastry cream cakes) they didn't have any so I treated him to a cream doughnut. Cost me £2.70 for 2. Went home grumbling and I'm sure they weren't as fresh as they could have been.

Read a sad interview in the papers today with the wife of that celebrity bread maker guy with the beard who ran off with another woman. Let that be a lesson to people on this forum. Don't get seduced by bread making :) She said he was a Loaf-ario... groan!

I bought his book for the recipes not his looks! How shallow do you think we are? ;o)

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "I bought his book for the recipes not his looks! How shallow do you think we are? ;o)"

Very shallow! Bored housewives + glamorous celebrity breadmaker = Daily Mail scandal story :)

I'd hardly call him glamorous. Didn't buy his book and only watched the first episode of the show. Go and stir someone else up. It's not working here.

Made two loaves today and had my first paddle stuck in the loaf. Hope that doesn't happen too often. It was a pain to get out.

Try smearing a little oil on the paddle before adding the stuff to the tin Pat