Everybody Can Bake Bread

Bread, you can buy it cheap so why make it at home? Well, just look at the ingredients on the back of a generic white sliced pan and compare it with the following recipe and you’ll see that there is no need for those E numbers and other artificial evils.

The recipe I used:

450g Strong White Flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sugar

25g margerine

7g bakers dried yeast (in all supermarkets)

300ml tepid water

Seeds for the crust (optional)

Sieve the flour and salt in to a bowl

Add sugar and rub in margerine

Stir in yeast, add the water and mix to a pliable dough

Turn on to a flat surface and knead for ten minutes until dough is stretchy and elastic (you’ll need flour for dusting the surface)

Shape and place in greased 2lb loaf tin. Cover with tea towel and put in the hotpress for an hour or so, until dough has doubled in size.

Sprinkle seeds on top and bake in a preheated hot oven (Gas 8/230c/450f) for approx 30 mins and until golden. Use a skewer to pierce the bread and it will emerge clean if bread is cooked.

Pic of my creation:

And tastes divine. Try it!