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Yeasted Breads
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.
Sweet Sourdough Cob
This is a sourdough made with a little honey - a soft crumb but a chewy crust and wonderful flavour.
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.
Struan
This is a sweet, moist nutty tasting loaf. Again there are so many possible variations with this muli-grain bread depending on your taste and what you have in the cupboard. The recipe here is just a starting point for you to creat your own Struan.
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.
Crumpets
Just made to soak up butter or a bit of brie.
Almond Oaties
Ground almonds and fine oatmeal combine to make melt in your mouth biscuits. Again no wheat in this recipe, but still a small amount of gluten (and suitably unhealthy amounts of butter and sugar).
Wholemeal scones
So quick, 30 minutes from thinking about it to eating it. Good coarse wholemeal is the secret, that and speed.
No-Wheat scones
A choice of wheat & gluten free flours. Oats contain a small amount of gluten so be cautious first time.
Fruit & nut scones
Just as quick and just as easy. Walnuts or sultanas are good additions. These are good with jam or just butter.
Yeasted Breads heading towards cakes
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.
Selkirk Bannock
I'll say it again, probably the unhealthiest bread I have made, easy to burn, difficult to resist.
