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Brown Bread

Wed, 5 October 2016

Brown Bread

With National Bread Week kicking off this Sunday - The Queen of Baking Catherine Leyden is going to show us how to make a simple step-by-step brown bread recipe. 

Ingredients

200g/7oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
250g/9oz Odlums Wheatmeal
1 teaspoon Bread Soda
1 level teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
1 tablespoon Odlums Oat Bran
1 tablespoon Odlums Wheat Germ
1 tablespoon Odlums Wheat Bran
25g/1oz Margarine
1 teaspoon Honey
1 Egg (beaten)
350-400ml/12-14fl oz Buttermilk

Topping:
Odlums Pinhead Oatmeal (optional)


Method

1.Lightly grease a 19cm/8" deep cake tin or 2 x 900g/2lb loaf tins. Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/Gas 7.
2.Sieve the cream flour, salt, bread soda and cream of tartar into a bowl.
3.Add the wheatmeal, oat bran, wheat bran and wheat germ and mix well.
4.Rub in the margarine. Mix the egg, honey and buttermilk together and add to the dry ingredients. Stir into a dough.
5.Turn onto a floured board and knead. Place into the prepared tin or tins and cut a cross on top.
6.Sprinkle some pinhead on top.
7.Bake for 15 minutes then reduce heat to 190°C/375°F Gas 5 for a further 30 minutes approx.
8.When cooked it should have a hollow sound when tapped underneath.
9.Wrap in a clean tea towel to cool.

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