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Heading: Bread & Baking
Cuisine: British & Irish
Food Type: Vegetarian
No of Portions: 8
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Ingredients & Prep
400 g
Strong wholemeal flour
350 ml
Water luke warm 40'c
50 g
Strong white flour
50 g
Butter melted
30 g
Brown sugar
7 g
Yeast dried
1 tsp
salt
Method
Step 1
Tip the flours, yeast, salt & sugar into a bowl & mix well. Add water & stir in well, then pour in the butter & work in well. You should have a sticky dough.
Step 2
Tip out on to a lightly oiled work surface & knead for 10 mins, then put back in the bowl & cover with cling film with a small hole with a knife, allow to double in size.
Step 3
Flatten the dough into a rough rectangle about the length of your baking tin, then roll up tightly, & put into a greased tin, with the join facing downwards. Cover & leave to rest in a warm place until it has doubled in height (at least 1½ hours). If you want rolls divide dough into 80g pieces flatter out dough pull in surrounding edges into the middle to for a doughnut shape, place on a non stick baking sheet to rise.
Step 4
Heat the oven to 200'C bake for 30 minutes, until the crust is a deep brown, & the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Turn out on to a cooling rack.
Suggestion & Tips
Brown or wholemeal tends to take longer to rise than white bread. If you wish you can sprinkle over seed of choice from the beginning of the second rise.