Hey Everyone! Hope you’re all doing ok since diagnosis last year I’ve been paying much more attention to the foods we’re eating and products I’m using such as skin care and cleaning products etc!
I really want to start making my own bread/flat breads and as much realistically from scratch as possible! Just wondering if anybody has any good recipe books they would recommend for this kind of thing so its all in one place in an old school book haha rather than me just saving random things off google/instagram etc!!
Also if anybody is good at homegrown veg and has any tips too!!
600g bread flour (nowdays I do 500g white/100g wholewheat)
6g salt
7g fast action yeast
350ml warm water
50g melted butter or 1 medium egg
Mix together the flour, yeast, salt
Add the butter/egg to the water, give it a mix and then pour it into the dry ingredients
Combine until you have no dry dough visible, really knead it all in with your hand for a few minutes
Cover the bowl and leave it to rest for atleast 1.5 hours. If the room temperature is really warm, you might only need to leave it 1 hour. It should have doubled in size
Pour the dough onto your worksurface and flatten it into a rectangle then fold in each edge to the middle. You should be able to shape it into a loaf shape (might be worth finding a YouTube video on how to do this bit)
Put the loaf into a linned rectangle bread tin and let this rise for about 45 minutes to an hour. The dough should rise up so it’s about an inch above the top of the tin
Slash across your loaf with a knife a few times, this is so the air can escape and stops it going a funky shape
Put your loaf into a preheated oven, 200°C
After 15 minutes check on it, if it’s looking nice and golden cover it with foil and put it back in for another 15 minutes
If you have a food thermometer you want the inside of the loaf to be about 90°C and for the stick to come out without any wet dough on it. Also if you tap the bottom of your loaf it should sound hollow
500g all purpose flour
7g fast action yeast
5g salt
250ml warm water
2tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Mix the flour, yeast, salt
Add the water and oil to the dry ingredients
Mix together, really kneading everything until there is no dry dough visible
Cover and let it rise for about 45 minutes
Pour out onto your worksurface and give it a litte more kneading to smoothen it up
Sprinkle some flour underneath it and using a rolling pin flatten it until it’s about an inch thick (the flour is really important to stop them sticking)
Using a round cutter that’s about burger size, cut out about 8 rolls (you might have to re-knead and flatten again to get the last 2)
Place the buns on a baking tray that’s lined with baking paper and let them rest and rise a little bit for about 30 minutes
You can put them straight in the oven or brush them with egg, maybe add some seeds on top
This is Chris Baber’s recipe for flatbreads which I have made 3 times now after seeing him do it at a food festival . I had never made any kind of bread before but his demo gave me the confidence to have a go.
325gr plain flour
325gr natural yogurt
Pinch of salt
2 tsp baking powder
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl with your hands to form a dough
Transfer to a floured surface and knead for 4-5 mins.
Set aside for 15 mins to rest
Roll onto a lightly floured surface until the dough is a 1/2 cm thick - then cut into individual pieces ( I often roll again quickly before frying )
Heat a splash of oil in a hot frying pan or griddle
Cook on a high heat for 1-2 minutes each side until golden and fluffy .
They bubble up as you’re frying them . Depending on how big you want want them you can make about 8 from this recipe .
Nancy Birtwhistle has recipes for everything from bread to cleaning solutions. Highly recommend her. I make washing detergent from conkers and she has a ‘no demand’ bread which you mix and ignore. She has Instagram & books.
I use a similar flatbread recipe (ratio of yoghurt to flour is just slightly less) & it’s great. It’s supposed to ‘prove’ for just 10mins but the breads are better if it’s left a bit longer.
Zoe Website is good for info on eating well, avoiding Ultra Processed Foods (UPF). A good rule is if you don’t recognise an ingredient, wouldn’t have it in your kitchen it’s a UPF ingredient / chemical.
REGN, Smol are good for household cleaners, dishwasher tabs, laundry products free of nasties.
Organic, Sodium Laurel Suphate free etc etc get expensive. I read something on focusing on exposure. If it’s going to soak in my skin like bubble bath, moisturiser then it’s more important..
since diagnosis last year I’ve been paying much more attention to the foods we’re eating and products I’m using such as skin care and cleaning products etc!
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