The Beauty of Bread
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Why does the smell of fresh bread matter and who is the guest?
Now, is there anything better than the smell of freshly baked bread in your kitchen? Well, maybe tasting the bread with a big uh bit of butter on its own as a starter or in your lunchbox. There is a bread for all occasions, and here to try to teach me how to bake the perfect loaf is author and chef Lou Robbie. Lou, good morning, chip. Morning, David. How are you keeping? I'm very well, thanks. Now I do plenty of cooking, but I do not bake. So where do I start? Looking for bread that is so idiot proof that even I can make it. Would you start where would you start? Would you start with brown bread, maybe?
You could, absolutely. Um so brown bread is like a soda bread. Do you like soda bread? I do it. Yeah. I'll
eat anything Lou, to be honest with you. Uh yeah,
I I would definitely start with the bread that you you like to eat as well. Yeah. But um yeah, there's quick breads and there's breads that take a bit longer. So you could ha soda bread is a quick bread, very traditional in Ireland. If you think about wheat and breads and soda furls, um there's a white soda bread too that I've shared recipes on uh and then griddle bread. And it actually um the reason why is because it suited the flour that we had in Ireland. um back in the day, but of course now we can get all sorts of cars. We get everything, yeah. That's right. So with the brown bread, yeah, it's absolutely a brilliant starter bread because um you can mix it in the bowl, put it straight into the loaf tin, and you can have it ready to eat within the hour.
And the ingredients are really easy to find. I have a lovely recipe. It's actually based on my own granny's brown bread. I've shared it on my page and I've shared it in my book. As well. So you have wholemeal flour, 250 grams of wholemeal flour, 60 grams of plain flour, one teaspoon of baking powder, one teaspoon of bicarb of soda, some dark brown sugar, and a pinch of salt. So that they're your dry ingredients. So you have a nice big mixin' bowl, David, and add all your dry ingredients. And then we need your wet. So your wet ingredients are buttermilk and an egg and some uh just sorry, 300. Of buttermilk, one and a half tablespoons of vegetable oil and one egg. So you mix those in a jug and then you pour that into your dry ingredients.
You can some traditional bakers would use their lava, you would use their hand, but if you don't want to get messy, use a spatula or a wooden spoon and give it a mix just until you can't see any trace of flour. You don't want to over mix the quick bread and then you pour Pour it into a lined tin, so it's a two-pound loaf tin or nine hundred gram loaf tin, they're the exact same, but a standard size loaf loaf tin, and into the oven then to bake for about a fifty minutes to an hour. Loved. And that's how simple it is.
That sounds fairly straightforward. I think I I kinda think I could probably manage that. And it tastes lovely, does it?
Absolutely. Yeah, this is a really easy, simplified version. Um definitely a brilliant starter bread. If you wanted to add some seeds, they would go lovely. You just add maybe twenty five, thirty grams of seeds to the mix. You can also sprinkle some oats, some porridge oats on top, or sprinkle some extra seeds on top. But definitely a brilliant starter bread. And then a white soda breadforce Well, just before just
sorry Lou Lou, just before we leave that, we were down at the plowing last week, we met Michael and Eva Ruddock, father and daughter taking part in the brown bread making competition. They were from Leitrum, I s any uh anybody could tell from Eva's uh jersey. But they were adding treacle or they were adding honey to the bread. Would you do that? And are there other things you could add?
Absolutely. It's really on your based on your own taste. So if you like a sweet bread, you can absolutely add in a big tablespoon of treacle. Sometimes you know it's um it's quite thick. So we used to make it in a restaurant that I worked in, we we used to make it every single day. We'd make twelve loaves of it and we'd warm the treacle in the microwave in a bowl just to kind of make it a little bit more pliable and then mix the oil.
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