The Household COO

This is the wholemeal bread recipe that I’ve been using to make organic bread for Gavin (courtesy of my SIL):

Wholemeal Bread

Ingredients:

Starter
78g flour
72g wholemeal flour (oat or rye flour)
3/4 teaspoon yeast
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon skim milk powder
20g honey
266g water
85g semolina

Dough mixture
320g bread flour/unbleached flour/high gluten flour
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon yeast
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
12g salt
30g butter

Optional
135g mixed seeds, eg. poppy seed, sesame seed, pumpki seeds, flaxseed, linseed, soy grits

Method:

1) Mix starter ingredients in a mixing bowl. Whisk to incorporate air. Leave at room temperature for 1 hour until frothy.
2) Add dough mixture ingredients to starter.  Using the dough hook, mix until a smooth elastic dough forms.  This will take about 7 minutes.
3) Turn the dough out and scrape the mixing bowl clean. Lightly grease the bowl and place the dough back into it.  Cover and allow the dough to double in size.
4) Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Gently press to remove air pockets and form a rectangle.
5) Place dough back into bowl and allow to double in size. This will take about 1-2 hours.
6) Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface.  Roll the dough into the shape of a rectangle then fold it to form the shape of a loaf.
7) Grease a loaf tin and place the dough into it. 
Allow to dough rise to the edges of the loaf tin - this should take at least another 1 hour to achieve.
9) Preheat oven to 200C.
10) Bake loaf at 200C for 10 minutes then lower the temperature to 180C and bake for another 35-40 minutes or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped at the base.

I’ll be cutting the loaf tomorrow so stay tuned for the photos.  If I don’t post any then you’ll know it’s because it didn’t turn out quite as I planned.  I’ve got a pretty good feeling about it so far because everything went exactly as it should have - the dough was smooth and elastic (unlike the previous batch I made where it was too dry) and it rose really nicely.  Anyway, we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.  Watch this space…

Check out Scribbit for some great recipes. Here are a couple of recently posted recipes:

Sweet Potato Rolls
Coconut Triple Layer Cake

I’ve just got one word for it - YUM! Especially the Coconut Triple Layer Cake - the picture looks so good, I almost want to lick the screen! Definitely something I’ve got to try making after the baby’s born…

For the time being, I’ll have to stay out of the kitchen because I can’t stand for long periods, I can’t wash the dishes without getting a backache and I can’t cook anything on the stove without heating up the baby (since my belly sticks out so much now).