I adapted my old tried and true short crust pastry recipe to suit the thermomix. So if you don’t have a thermomix, just manually crumb the dry ingredients and butter together and then slowly mix in the wet and knead lightly. Shortcrust Pastry 2 cups plain flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 125g butter just over […]
As usual, we’re out of bread. I rather fancy something pita like for lunches tomorrow so I thought I would see what I could devise in the thermomix. Thermomix Oat & Spelt Pita Bread 4 1/2 cups freshly ground spelt flour (wheat would work but would probably need a fraction more water) 2 cups oats […]
I made a curd and dill loaf today from World Breads but I decided to get decorative and cut it into an epi. Stupidly I took a photo of it upside down so stand on your head to get the proper picture of wheat into your mind. Pretty isn’t it? Delicious too, we had ours […]
Lunch drama! No bread, hungry children, 1 hour until lunchtime. Eeek. Until I found this recipe in World Breads. It’s fabulously quick and easy. Apparently these keep for 2 weeks in an airtight container but as the batch I made lasted less than 20 minutes, I can’t verify that. Pane Carasau or Sardinian Parchment Bread […]
Well the slightly seedy and slightly sour bread I made yesterday lasted about 12 hours which includes a full night’s sleep. As much as my kids ever sleep anyway. No wonder I get sick of baking when 3 people eat 8 rolls in such a short amount of time. So I am confronted with the […]
Let me start by saying that bread is not my forte. Which is a pity as I make all our bread. Bread is a science and precision plays a large part in a successful baking. Good artisan style baking should be done slowly and carefully, the dough kneaded with love and left to prove on […]