Artisan bread recipes for your daily consumption.
[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.”
― Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher, The Art of Eating ―
Ingredients: 400gm Unbleached Bread Flour (Plus 20gm more if needed) 9gm -10gm Dried Butterfly flowers 250gm water from the Butterfly pea extract. 25 gm melted butter 2 1/2 tsp dried yeast 1 1/2 tsp sea salt2 tsp fresh lime juice. Method.Boil water and pour the hot...
Recently, I’ve been interested in baking bread with coloured crumbs and it all started with the Purple Sweet Potato bread. There is a lot of health benefits eating Purple Sweet potatoes, so it made sense to me to have bread made with this, and consume the potato this...
Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as Asian pigeonwings, bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea and Darwin pea, is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family. Wikipedia. Like green tea, the Butterfly Pea Flower tea is full of potent antioxidants,...
Hot out of the oven, the crust nicely browned and 'singing'!My Sister-in-law gifted me a 1kg packet of this French Type 110 flour( see picture below). It is a “Farine de blé complète” or in English, a complete wheat flour. From the symbols on the package, it’s organic...
Purple sweet potato sourdough bread in just little over three hours.A few days ago, while speaking with an old friend over the phone, he related that he and his wife now eat plenty of purple sweet potatoes. He said that this potato has one of the highest amount of...
There are many recipes for onion breads in the internet, but I have developed my own method and I find the results very satisfying. Onion bread is one of my favourite breads. I like it lightly toasted and buttered, eaten for breakfast with black...
I acquired a packet of this Mr. Baker's Sourdough Starter sometime in 2012 or 2013 when in SF, and kept it in my freezer all these 5-6 years. Four days ago, I decided to reconstitute the starter, and after feeding it a couple of times, baked this boule of organic...
This is an easy bread to bake and will take about 2 hours of your time. It has a glorious fennel aroma, fantastic crust and and a soft chewy crumb with the nutty flavours of Almonds, Sunflowers and Linseeds (LSA).Ingredients:50g Semolina flour350g KA Unbleached...
I just received from my sister-in-law, another 250g packet of Avoine, a French mixture containing oats, sunflower and squash seeds. Together in this is mixed five cereals, that of rye, oats, barley, rice and wheat. I still have 1 1/2 packets in my freezer so I thought...