Recipe - Quick And Easy Wholemeal Loaf

4 Oz; (100 per cent)
; organically
; produced wholewheat
; flour, plus a
; little extra for
; the top of the
; bread
2 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Soft light brown sugar
2 teaspoon Easy blend dried yeast
14 fl Hand hot water; about
Either a 2 pound loaf tin or
two 1 pound loaf; well
buttered
; tins

Preheat oven to its lowest setting.

1 Warm the flour slightly in the oven for about 10 minutes, and turn the
oven off for now. Tip the warm flour into a large mixing bowl and sprinkle
on the salt, sugar and easy blend yeast.

2 Mix together thoroughly, make a well in the centre and pour in the hand
hot water.

3 Take a wooden spoon and mix the warm liquid into the flour gradually to
form a dough the exact amount of water you'll need will depend on the
flour.

4 Finish by mixing with your hands until you have a smooth dough that
cleans the bowl. There shouldn't be any bits of flour or dough left on the
sides of the bowl and, unlike pastry, it is better to have too much water
than too little.

5 Put the dough on a flat surface and stretch out into an oblong. Fold one
edge into the centre and the other over that. Fit the dough into the tin,
pressing firmly all round the edges so the top will be slightly rounded.

6 Sprinkle the surface with a generous dusting of flour, cover the tin with
a damp, clean tea cloth and leave to rise in a warm place for 3040 minutes
or at room temperature for about an hour.

7 If you're making two loaves, divide the dough in half before following
the steps above and folding into the two tins.

8 Preheat oven to 200c/400f/Gas 6. When the dough has risen to the top of
the bread tin or tins, bake for 40 minutes for the 2lb/900g loaf tin or 30
minutes for the 1lb/450g loaf tins.

9 When the bread is cooked, turn out onto a cloth to protect your hands
it will sound hollow when rapped underneath with your knuckles.

10 Return the bread, out of it's tin, upside down to the oven for another
510 minutes to crisp the base and sides. Cool the bread on a wire rack,
and don't put it away or freeze until it's absolutely cold.

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Per serving: 0 Calories (kcal); 0g Total Fat; (0% calories from fat); 0g
Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 4263mg Sodium Food Exchanges: 0
Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 0 Fat; 0 Other
Carbohydrates

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