Derek's Home Made Bread

This quick and easy healthy recipe appeared in our first ever Friends' Newsletter in Spring 2002. It has wholemeal flour as a main ingredient. This is the type of flour which you can get from the Mill on Open Days in return for a donation.

Wholemeal Bread

Ingredients:

• 1lb wholemeal flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½oz yeast
• ½pt warm water

Method:

Pre-heat the oven to 450°, Gas mark 8.

• Cream yeast with a little of the water, then add rest of water.
• Stir together flour and salt in a bowl, add the creamed yeast, and mix to a pliable dough. (Use a drop or two of tepid water if necessary).
• Knead for about ten minutes.
• Place on floured board - knead lightly.
• Put into a warmed, greased/floured tin - leave in a warm area covered by a thick cloth.
• When the dough has risen to the top of the tin, it will be ready for baking.
• Place in a hot part of the oven for 15 minutes, then gradually lower the heat.
• Cook until the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow (approx ½ hour).

Brown Bread

Simple brown bread can be made as above but using ⅓ wholemeal flour and ⅔ white flour.

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