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!
I love buckwheat flour pancakes for my weekend breakfast, so I decided to add some buckwheat flour into my English breakfast muffin recipe. It works a treat! The buckwheat flavours come through very subtly and the dominance of strong white wheat flour ensures the muffins get a good rise and come out with a soft, even … Read more
Browsing the local delights of the organic grocery store in my home town in Austria, I picked up a bag of Grünkern. The greenish grains looked pretty and unique on the shelf! Grünkern grains are unripe spelt kernels cultivated predominantly in Southern Germany. Although mainly used for soups and vegetarian burgers, I wanted to incorporate some of this unique … Read more
I love crispbreads and tend to make a batch every few weeks. Usually, I bake savoury crispbreads, but I’ve been wanting to make an old childhood favourite of mine, Zwieback crackers, a lightly sweetened crispbread. My mum didn’t bake this herself, but bought an industrial version called Feldbacher Zwieback. It was generally on the menu when I … Read more
Every autumn I see chestnut flour recipes popping up on my social media feeds. I love the hot floury taste of roasted chestnuts, sold by street vendors in Austrian Christmas markets. So this year, I finally decided to find out more about this seasonal flour and started to experiment with different chestnut flour recipes and … Read more
Lebkuchen are traditional German Christmas treats which are also popular in Austria and other European countries. Lebkuchen are sweet spiced biscuits made from ground nuts and/or flour depending on the recipe you use, honey and spices. Water or butter are used sparingly if at all. Due to the high sugar content in Lebkuchen, they keep well so you … Read more
Poppy seeds are a pleasure to bake with. They provide intense flavour and deliver great contrast when placed on the crust. Central European, Eastern European and Jewish baking uses poppy seeds extensively in both savoury and sweet breads. I always have some whole poppy seeds and ground seeds in the store cupboard – they are great for … Read more
I hosted a Sourdough Toast Morning for this year’s Pumpernickel bites with cream cheese and sprouted radish seeds, I guess they were my sourdough amuse bouche. Not a ‘light’ breakfast, but a tasty one for sure! Sourdough toast toppings and ideas There are a million things that go well with sourdough toast – in fact, almost … Read more
It recently struck me that during all my years of sourdough baking, not once had I baked a pure white sourdough bread. I got stuck right into 100% rye sourdough baking, wholemeal spelt sourdough and wheat-rye combination breads. Yet, I hadn’t ever bothered with a basic white sourdough loaf. White sourdough bread is perhaps the most simplistic form of sourdough bread baking. This post is … Read more
Time to try a new Moroccan recipe! I adore the flavours of Moroccan cooking – harissa and ras el hanout spices, the citrus tang of preserved lemons and wonderfully aromatic sweet and savoury ingredient combinations. When this month’s Bread Bakers theme was announced as ‘peppers’, I decided to make a stuffed Moroccan flatbread recipe I’d been meaning to … Read more
In anticipation of this year’s autumn harvest and the delicious grapes my family grow at our old farm house in Austria, I’ve prepared a grape bread recipe to take advantage of the grapes’ delicious sweetness in a celebratory loaf. I’m posting this recipe as part of this month’s #BreadBakers get-together hosted by Mayuri’s Jikoni. Grape Bread Recipe … Read more