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Baking bread at home isn't expensive.

Wholemeal loaf using stoneground flour:
Cost at home: 13p per 100g including oven costs.    Cost in Supermarket: 19p/100g.
Pittas using good quality flour:
Cost at home: 7p per 100g.    Cost in supermarket 19p per 100g.
The supermarket costs are from Tesco's website on 10th Feb 2013. There are cheaper loaves on Tesco's shelves - this is an attempt to compare like for like.

The flours I use in these recipes are mostly from Shipton Mill. For tins, trays, breadforms and all other baking paraphenalia look on Bakery Bits.

Yeasted Breads

Croissants
Fresh crispy home made croissant are unbeatable. Helpful diagrams
Brioche
Not for everyday, but delicious now and then.
Lemon bread
Light lemon scented bread with a lovely yellow crumb. Great for breakfast but it doesn't keep. So just eat it.
Hot Cross Buns
Lots of orange zest, ground ginger, cinnamon & nutmeg make these really tasty. I think they are even better next day, toasted.
Wholemeal bread
This is good wholesome stuff but not heavy. With a long fermentation it is easier to digest and tastier.
A simple white loaf
Not everyone likes brown or wholemeal bread, and some foods call for a lighter texture and taste than wholemeal so knowing how to bake a good white loaf is important.
Sweet Sourdough Cob
This is a sourdough made with a little honey - a soft crumb but a chewy crust and wonderful flavour.
Crusty white Sourdough
This is a simple sourdough almost all white flour - with a manageable dough.
Sourdough pancakes
Instant food with a really distinctive taste. This is what to bake if you have too much starter.
Quick sourdough rolls
These rolls use sourdough starter and yeast so most of the taste but a lot quicker than a proper sourdough
Notes on Sourdough Starters
Yet another attempt to demistify starters - just do it!.
Little Loaf, big taste
More or less the same as the wholemeal loaf but cutting a few corners. Good bread, just not quite so good but quicker.
Milk loaf
a light creamy coloured bread. Because of the butter and syrup in this bread it toasts quickly to a lovely golden brown. Ideal breakfast bread, fresh or toasted.
Bread sticks
Quick and easy, with lots of flavourings possible. These are to be eaten immediately, not the type of breadsticks to keep in a tin.
Spring breadsticks
A bit of fun with the dough to make breadsticks which look like snowdrops but fortuneately don't taste like them.The snowdrop breadstick on the recipe page has a passing resemblance to a triffid but they seem harmless so far.
Olive cob
A good bread to have with a salad - not too heavy but with a flavour to compliment the greens.
Anster whey bread
The taste is difficult to describe. It is a little bit cheesy, very defineatly a savoury bread not suitable for jams/honey or anything sweet. It isn't always possible for me to get whey so on any course this is "if possible"
Rolls for breakfast
Honest stuff, 50/50 wholemeal and strong white flour, but the flour permutations are endless till you arrive at your perfect buttie.
Panini
Delicious little rolls made with olive oil dough. The dough takes a while to prove but the shaping and firing are quick
Pizza
Another olive oil dough but with a little more liquid so very soft to work with. Very easy and very quick but I haven't mastered whirling it round my head yet.
Sesame pittas
Quick, easy, cheap, tasty bread to eat with stews, curries, dips and so on.
Rye cob
Great with soups. Proving takes a while but it's worth it.
Focaccia
Focaccia is a meal in itself traditionally garnished with olives and sprigs of rosemary, but very adaptable - lashings of olive oil is mandatory though.
Malt loaf
This is a sweet, moist nutty tasting loaf with sultanas.
Staffordshire oatcakes
A sort of yeasted oatmeal and white flour crepe, unique and delicious. Good with sweet and savoury fillings.
Walnut cob
Walnuts, honey and good wholemeal flour make this as near cake as good bread can get! Wonderful on its own or with a dod of cheese.

Unyeasted Breads

Freuchie Soda Bread
My version is baked in a tin rather than as a farl on a griddle. Good fresh or toasted. Yummy with strawberry jam. (but then most things are, I suppose)
Oat shortbread
Very easy and quick to prepare though it does take a while in the oven. The oats give their unique flavour, and the small quantity of medium oatmeal gives more texture than with most shortbread.
Oatcakes
Good anytime, anywhere with anything. Easy to make, keep well, cheap to make. Sounds like a Hogwarts recipe to me!
Cheesey Chili oatcakes
Choose your chili carefully, not scotch bonnets! The idea is to give just a bit of chili warmth under the taste of cheese
Oatmeal pancakes
The oatmeal gives a lovely nutty taste (well oatmealy really). There is no wheat in this recipe, but still a small amount of gluten.
Hazelnut flapjacks
A mixture of rolled oats, medium oatmeal and crushed hazelnuts make for a good crunch, then there's the syrup, sugar and butter to make them iresistable.
Wholemeal scones
So quick, 30 minutes from thinking about it to eating it. Good coarse wholemeal is the secret, that and speed.
Fruit & nut scones
Just as quick and just as easy. Walnuts or sultanas are good additions. These are good with jam or just butter.
Biscotti
There's a recipe here but this is really free form. These are the easiest things to bake, quick and plenty opportunity to use your imagination: morello cherries, walnuts, lime, ginger …
Simnel Cake
Traditionally made for Mothering Sunday. There's a heap of marzipan in here - make your own it is quick (seconds!),easy and delicious.

Yeasted Breads heading towards cakes

Yeasted Simnel Cake
Traditionally made for Mothering Sunday. This is a sweet bread with marzipan in the middle, more substantial than the unyeasted version. Real comfort food.
Danish Yule Cake
Great light and sweet fruit bread with cardamom. Just drop the Yule from the title and bake it any time.
Stollen
Really one of these things where homemade beats shop-bought by a mile.
Plum cake
This is delicious and looks so colourful and appetising. A good plum variation in the autumn when plums are plentiful.
Poppyseed Roulade
The filling for this roulade is a mixture of soaked poppy seeds, mixed peel, ground almond and butter. The sweetened bread, rich filling and sharp icing combine beautifully. Go on, have another slice…..