This
recipe was basically a normal bread recipe with fruit thrown into it,
so a real battle of savoury versus sweet! What will be the outcome of
this?
It
starts off with the usual mixing of the ingredients (by hand!), the
only difference was that the flour consisted of strong white, rye and
wholemeal. So a proper mix, even with the dreaded rye flour but there
was enough of the others to stop it causing any trouble to the loaf
for me! After 10 minutes of kneading in the heat wave, it was time to
leave the dough to rise!
After
an hour rise, time to measure out the fruit for the loaf and kneading
it all into the already nicely risen dough, which is always very sad
to me! When the fruit it spread evenly across the dough, time to put
it back into the bowl and leave to rise for yet another hour!
The
wait is over! Though another begins, it's time to knock the air out
of the dough and then shape into an oval and it's time to prove! I
think I am having issues with shaping, the dough never seems as
smooth and strong as it should and when I try to do the oval shape,
it just looks like a huge block with odd ends!
After
an hour or when the dough springs back when you poke it, it's time to
bake at last! Before you bake though (getting ahead of myself) you rub some flour into the dough and slash with a knife then in the oven it goes!
Reviews?
Family not so keen on this. I think maybe because unlike usual bread
with fruit in, it's sweet but this recipe was purely bread with fruit
in it, no extra sugar added or anything so I can understand the
conflict of taste!
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