Stout & apple wheaten bread
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
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- Easy
- makes 3 loaves
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Ingredients
- 60g butter, cut into small cubes, plus more for the tins
- 1 large apple (or 2 small ones), peeled, cored and diced
- 175g plain flour
- 450g wholemeal flour
- 90g medium oatmeal
- 2 ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 4 tbsp muscovado sugar
- 175ml good-quality stout
- 5 tbsp treacle
- 400ml buttermilk
- oat flakes, pinhead oatmeal or sesame seeds (or a mixture of all three) to sprinkle over the top
Method
- STEP 1
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter three 1lb loaf tins. Toss the apple with 2 tbsp of the plain flour. Mix the flours and oatmeal with 1 tsp salt and the bicarbonate of soda. Add the butter and rub it in with your fingertips. Stir in the sugar.
- STEP 2
Make a well in the middle of the mixture and gradually pour in the stout, followed by the treacle, then the buttermilk. Mix the liquids in with a butter knife as they are added, also working in the floured apple – work quickly and be careful not to overmix.
- STEP 3
Divide the mixture between the loaf tins, sprinkle over the oats or seeds. and bake for 35-40 mins. To test whether the loaves are ready, remove one from the tin and tap the bottom. If it sounds hollow, it’s ready; if not, return to the oven for a little longer. Turn the loaves out of the tins and leave to cool on a wire rack.
