A fail-safe bread recipe that produces the right loaf- when you've mastered it, attempt swapping flours and altering the form

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:20 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:50 minutes
  • plus 2 hrs proving
• Simple
• Makes 1 loaf (cuts into about 12 slices)

• Freezable

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Components

• 25g butter, lower into cubes
• 2 tbsp clear honey
• 400g seed & grain bread flour
• 100g robust white bread flour
• 7g sachet or 1½ tsp fast-action dried yeast
• 1 egg, crushed
• blended seeds (we used sunflower, sesame, pumpkin and linseeds)

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Methodology

• STEP 1

  Warmth the butter, honey and 300ml water in a saucepan. Put aside to chill at hand temperature.

• STEP 2

  Combine the flours, yeast and 1½ tsp salt in a bowl. Pour within the heat liquid and blend with a wood spoon, then along with your arms. Tip onto your work floor and knead for 10 minutes or till springy. Place in a evenly oiled bowl, cowl with oiled cling movie and depart someplace heat to rise for two hrs or till doubled in measurement.

• STEP 3

  Flour a big baking tray. Tip the dough onto your work floor and knead to knock out the air bubbles. Take away ¼ of the dough so that you’ve 2 items. Form each items of dough into clean balls, put the big one on the baking tray then sit the smaller ball on high. Utilizing a well-floured deal with of a wood spoon, push by the centre of the two balls of dough to stay them collectively. Cowl with oiled cling movie and depart to rise for about 45 minutes or till doubled in measurement. Warmth oven to 220C/200C fan/gasoline 7 and put a cake tin on the underside shelf, with an empty shelf instantly above for the bread.

• STEP 4

  Take away the cling movie from the bread. Brush throughout with the egg, then sprinkle generously with seeds. Slash the perimeters of the loaf a number of instances with a pointy knife to create a sample. Open the oven and pour a cup filled with water into the cake tin – it will create steam and provides the loaf a crisp crust. Put the bread on the empty shelf and bake for 20 minutes, then flip the oven right down to 180C/160C fan/gasoline 4 and bake for one more 30 minutes till crisp and hollow-sounding when tapped on the bottom. Take away from the oven and funky on a wire rack for not less than 30 minutes earlier than consuming.