Question for home bread makers - Tiger bread

skodasupercar

Well my local tescos does a second line now.
The do tiger bread AND salt and pepper bread.

I bought it by accident, it looks and smells exactly the same but has loads of sea salt and black pepper on it.

I tried some more last night. Will stick up a pic again in a few minutes.

I made a standard dutch crunch mix but used a little more oil, a tiny ammount of vegimite and plenty of salt and pepper.

I also brushed a small amount of seseme oil on half way though baking.

Overall they were nice, but not tiger bread.

SSC

kate83

I tried just brushing some sesame oil on at the end - big mistake! doesn't taste like tiger bread and now can't get the taste out of my mouth - yakky!

NuShooz

sorry if this has already been posted but this recipe contains sesame oil in the dough mixture.:
http://traineedomesticgoddess.blogspot.com/2008/07/cracking-tiger-bread-mystery.html

will definitly be giving this one a try!

bec2012

Hi, I'm new on here and am thinking of getting a bread maker but would need to know how to do the elusive tiger bread, just to put my oar in we like all tiger bread but not that taken with the sainsburys version it tastes different, just like a normal loaf with the topping on so if this hasn't got sesame oil in it but all the others have this could be the problem with their bread and would mean the recipie should deffo have sesame in the dough!

Greyflannels

I think the sesame flavour is a bit of a red herring to be honest. As posted earlier, this recipe gives a pretty good crusty crackled crust with the Panasonic breadmaker. Try it.

Mix together 2 tablespoons rice flour, 2 tablespoons water and a good pinch of salt. Rice flour may be purchased in health food shops in the Gluten-free section.

Set up the breadmaker to make a loaf. With the Panasonic, set the browning control to D (dark crust).

One and a half hours before the bread is due to finish, paint the rice paste evenly over the surface of the dough using a soft pastry brush. At this time in the program, the breadmaker has finished kneading but the dough has not started to rise, thus giving maximum time for the rice glaze to crack.

Swan_2

Greyflannels wrote: »

I think the sesame flavour is a bit of a red herring to be honest. As posted earlier, this recipe gives a pretty good crusty crackled crust with the Panasonic breadmaker. Try it.

Mix together 2 tablespoons rice flour, 2 tablespoons water and a good pinch of salt. Rice flour may be purchased in health food shops in the Gluten-free section.

Set up the breadmaker to make a loaf. With the Panasonic, set the browning control to D (dark crust).

One and a half hours before the bread is due to finish, paint the rice paste evenly over the surface of the dough using a soft pastry brush. At this time in the program, the breadmaker has finished kneading but the dough has not started to rise, thus giving maximum time for the rice glaze to crack.

I can definitely taste & smell sesame in a Tiger loaf, & the labelling from at least one of the supermarkets states that theirs contains sesame oil

I tried the rice paste method way back at the beginning of this thread (post 16) both in my breadmaker & oven baked, & although it produced a pretty crackled 'Dutch Crunch' style crust & a pleasant loaf, it was by no stretch of the imagine anything like Tiger bread

skodasupercar

Any more of an update.

I have made a few more attempts and have the crackle business cracked, but i just connot replicate the taste. Not even close!

Very anoying!

btw, i have just a nice inch thick slice with butter... lovely, but would be better if i had made it and not tesco!!

jojo01

Don't know if this is of any help, but just came across a recipe for crackle bread.

http://www.cookingbread.com/classes/class_crackle_bread.html

The crust looks a bit paler than tiger bread but that might be because they took it out of the oven too soon!

Kevie192

Not sure if you've tried this yet but I couldn't see it on this thread.

There's a recipe here: http://traineedomesticgoddess.blogspot.com/2008/07/cracking-tiger-bread-mystery.html

Kevin x

matt_wood87

Hi Everyone,

I'm surprised someone hasn't done this before me, but I e-mailed all the supermarkets and asked them for the ingredients in their tiger bread loafs. All but ASDA and morissons have responded to me (I will post their's when I recieve it) and the results can be seen below. I don't have the quantities/ratios, but I'm sure somebody more skilled in the kitchen than me could figure those out.

here we go:

Sainsburys
wheat flour, water, yeast salt, Soya flour, vegetable oil, flour treatment agent ascorbic
acid.
tiger paste which consists of rice flour, water, yeast, sugar and salt

Tesco
Wheat Flour, Water, Yeast, Vegetable Oil (including hydrogenated oil), Flour Treatment Agents
E300, E920, Emulsifier E471, Stabiliser E450, Malt Flour

Somerfield
Wheatflour, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Yeast, Salt, Wheat Gluten, Flour Treatment Agents (Ascorbic
Acid, E920), Palm Fat, Emulsifier (E472e), Stabiliser (E450), Malted Barley Extract.

Co-op
Wheat Flour, Water, Emulsifier (Mono- and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and
diglycerides of fatty acids - Vegetable), Flour Treatment Agent (L-Cysteine, Ascorbic acid),
Malted Barley Extract, Salt, Stabiliser (Diphosphates), Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Palm), Wheat
Protein, Yeast


Sainsburys kindly seperate the tiger paste ingredients out, so hopefully someone can deduce good quantities for these ingredients,

"tiger paste which consists of rice flour, water, yeast, sugar and salt."

Good luck!

Matt