Healthy Bread.
Ingredients.
3 lb of flour to make 3 loaves.
Use a mixture of strong white flour and brown or wholemeal flour.
dried yeast - follow instructions on packet.
Fresh yeast is better if you can get it.
pinch of salt
mixture of pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds to mix
1 tbsp olive oil
water to mix 1 1/2 pints of lukewarm water.
Preparation.
I use a mixer and dough hook to mix up the flour with yeast, salt and seeds.
If you use fresh yeast - mix up in a jug with some a tablespoon of honey and some lukewarm water. Cover and leave for ten minutes until it froths up and then add to the flour mixture and add more water as below. Use about a teaspoonful of fresh yeast per 1lb of flour.
Then add the water at lukewarm temperture - feeling just warm on the hand. I add a pint fairly quickly at first and then slower as it binds together to get a nice not too sticky dough.
Turn this out on a board - you can flour the board to stop it sticking. Divide into three lumps and then this is the best part. Knead the dough by pulling it apart and then folding over. Do this for ten times or so on one lump and then move on to the next one. The dough should get springy as it gets to the right consistency. Leave covered in a bowl for half an hour to expand in size. Then bash it down a bit to expel the air, re- knead for a little and put the dough balls into the bread tins. Leave to rise - they should double in size.