Name: Bread in four easy steps
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Cuts into 8 thick slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500g granary, strong wholewheat or white bread flour (I used granary); 7g sachet fast-action dried yeast; 1 tsp salt; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 tbsp clear honey

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Bread in four easy steps

Bread in four easy steps

Sara Buenfeld

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Cuts into 8 thick slices

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 35 mins

Plus rising

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Kids can help with this super-simple bread recipe. Use whichever flour you like, granary, wholemeal or white

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Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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500g granary, strong wholewheat or white bread flour

(I used granary)
7g sachet fast-action dried yeast
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp clear honey

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Nutrition: per slice

kcal231
fat4g
saturates1g
carbs42g
sugars3g
fibre4g
protein10g
salt0.63g

low

Method

step 1

Tip the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl and mix together with your hands. Stir 300ml hand-hot water with the oil and honey, then stir into the dry ingredients to make a soft dough.
step 2

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 mins, until the dough no longer feels sticky, sprinkling with a little more flour if you need it.
step 3

Oil a 900g loaf tin and put the dough in the tin, pressing it in evenly. Put in a large plastic food bag and leave to rise for 1 hr, until the dough has risen to fill the tin and it no longer springs back when you press it with your finger.
step 4

Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Make several slashes across the top of the loaf with a sharp knife, then bake for 30-35 mins until the loaf is risen and golden. Tip it out onto a cooling rack and tap the base of the bread to check it is cooked. It should sound hollow. Leave to cool.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2009

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