Bake wholesome #realbread at home with tried and tested recipes from The Bread She Bakes
Tried and tested bread recipes for home baking. Simple, delicious, rewarding – enjoy!
Einkorn (triticum monococcum) is the ancient precursor of wheat, the original wheat that grew in the area known as the Fertile Crescent in present-day Iraq and Syria. The grains are not very different from those harvested and eaten about 18,000 years ago and cultivated from about 10,00o BC. Einkorn moved from the Fertile Crescent area … Read more
Irish stew is the order of the day, and what better accompaniment than some homemade Guinness bread rolls. Irish stew, by definition a simple dish, based on the few but substantial ingredients of lamb chops, onions, carrots and potatoes and flavoured simply with salt and pepper, is a superbly rich dish. My Guinness dinner rolls … Read more
I recently discovered that Austrian pumpkin seeds are much bigger and darker in colour, have more substantial flavour and are creamier in texture than regular pumpkin seeds sold in the UK. Reason enough to bake one tasty pumpkin seed bread! The largeness of Austrian pumpkin seeds makes them an attractive addition to many dishes. I … Read more
I love pancakes and am very excited indeed about all the pancake recipes coming out of this month’s #BreadBakers theme, kindly hosted by Mayuri Patel blogging at Austrian Palatschinken to Indian Dosa, from sorghum flour pancakes to these galettes de sarrasin, a buckwheat flour pancake recipe from the North of France. This recipe uses 100% buckwheat flour. The … Read more
My childhood memories of Kletzenbrot, an Austrian Christmas fruit bread, are somewhat limited as I was never a huge fan. The Kletzenbrot (which translates as ‘dried pear bread’) I was typically presented with was always just a little bit too full on for me, too fruit-laden and too overpowering in terms of spices. Kletzenbrot of this kind consists of … Read more
Starting the year with healthy and nutritious bread is a great way to improve your diet. In the same vein, minimising food waste should be another goal high on the list of food-related ambitions. 22.4% of all bread (equating to 660,000t or £640 million of bread) is thrown away in UK homes every year. Bread is in … Read more
I’ve finally got hold of amaranth! After putting down my thoughts on healthy bread last week, I wanted to dedicate this week’s post to another health-related topic and highlight the benefits of the nutritious amaranth plant, its seeds and flour. The amaranth plant, once a staple of the Aztec and Inca diet, produces seeds packed … Read more
New Year’s resolutions abound and healthier living and eating aspirations are plentiful with the beginning of the New Year. I’m hoping that for many, a healthier bread diet constitutes part of their New Year’s resolutions. For you special people, I have put together a healthy bread recipe to get you on the right track. If you are … Read more
For this year’s annual Christmas lunch get-together, I contributed the starter. With a main course of venison stew, I opted for a puy lentil, parsnip and walnut salad with walnut sourdough bread. It proved to be a winning combination, so I wanted to share both the walnut sourdough bread recipe and a link to the salad … Read more
In the run up to this year’s Christmas celebrations, I wanted to share some of my favourite festive Christmas bread recipes. The list below features some of my own recipes as well as breads posted by fellow food writers and bloggers. Bread can play an integral part at various festive meal occasions and I have therefore divided my write-up into three categories: sweet … Read more