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Kittikins

yummy walnut bread - I made it with white g-f flour as Tesco had run out out wholemeal g-f

1 tsp cider vinegar
6 tbsp olive oil
2 eggs
320ml (11fl oz) milk - i used soya milk
450g (1lb) Doves Farm gluten-free brown bread flour
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp molasses or unrefined dark muscovado sugar
40g (1½oz) walnuts, chopped
2 tsp quick yeast

Beat the wet ingredients together in a jug. Mix dry ingredients together in bowl, make a well and pour in the wet stuff. Stir with a metal spoon til it makes a sticky dough. Sprinkle flour onto surface, tip dough out and sprinkle some flour on top and knead dough for a few minutes until it's more dough-like rather than sticky. Pat into a shape and pop into your tin. Cover with oiled cling film and leave to double in size. Bake for about 45 mins in 220c/gas 7 oven.

Sooooo yummy when toasted

gilligansyle

Getting side tracked here, but other than the flour, is there anything different about gluten free bread? Do you make it differently?

I think I'll have a little play later with the BM and see what I can come up with.

KK, I may even try that recipe, see if I can work out the order of ingredients for the BM.

Kittikins

I think some breadmakers have GF recipes in their instruction booklets. The breads I've made have been so easy, I thought it would be a waste of electricity as they don't need much kneading

Karmacat

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Hello lovely lady,

nice to catch up with your 'doings' & great to hear you've seen lovely Wol . I've been a bad friend & not been in touch for ages. Perhaps we 3 could have a mini meet up sometime ? Where the place ? Upon the heath ... Hubble, bubble, toil & trouble ... which would you like to be ?

Ooh! Upon the heath, indeed ... we could go meet Pooh .... or you could come here and see what I've been rabbiting on about with this house - the patio will shortly be operational for lounging on that would be lovely indeed

Kittikins wrote: »

KC - just had a quick skim of your blog, thank you for putting up the link
Thank you for visiting! And thank you to all who mentioned it on here :kisses3: I think I'll be brave and put it in my profile on here

Now, I've a bone to pick with you young lady - gluten free bread is EASY PEASY, much easier than "normal" bread as you don't have to bash the heck out of it. I've made 2 types, plain white and a scrumptious walnut loaf, which I made for a dinner party with OH and friends, and wanted us all to have the same meal (apart from me not having the meat). Would you like me to dig out the recipes and post them up here?

Wow! I'm so glad you did, KK - I found the instructions for my cooke online, and have printed them out, *and* I've ordered an oven thermometer from Amazon, paid for with surveys and very cheap in any case, so I'm almost ready to start cooking - just a little bit of experimentation first with veggies, nothing that I haven't done before, and I'm ready to roll. Oh my god, a functioning kitchen :j:j:j

I'm adopting a new system of diary work today, thanks to a blog that FW pointed out in her thread on here, a young bloke called Scott Young - he's only 22, but he's quite something. In my diary, for the week ahead, I'm going to write in 2 or 3 main topics - this is today, for instance: - town, insulation website, garden. The only work thing in there is the website, and I reckon an hour is well worth it. As well, I'll have a list of little jobs - a quick email here, a quick phone call there. I can't carry on thinking its a big deal to make a 3 minute phone call, its crazy - I can't set up and run new income streams thinking like that. So there we go :j:beer:

Lula-Hula

I'm an expert lounger, so that would be equally fab

I have some lovely chocolate mint that might like to relocate to Sussex to ward off ants

Will ponder on possible days / dates & pm you soon.



I've just found your blog & love it so have added it to my favourites too .

One day I hope to have my own. It's actually far more appealing than learning how to ebay .

Karmacat

Thank you :kisses3: On all counts :kisses3: I'm just off to your diary, its at the bottom of my subscriptions page (I really should weed that :rotfl:)

I sense a sort-of-civilised little afternoon party coming up :j (lkots of Macbeth's witches quotes tho :D:D)

gilligansyle

Having to brush up on your Shakespeare for an afternoon on the Heath, what will she think of next!

Karmacat

They were just herbalists, you know! Or the forerunners of Hermione Grainger, whatever floats your boat :D:D

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

They were just herbalists, you know!

On the subject of herbalists - have just stumbled across a wonderful website whilst searching out recipes for the baby dandelions I've let grow in the herb patch (yes on purpose) - have to get them out of the ground whilst still young greens & before flowering!

Here is the link to her recipe page - have a browse around the rest of the site too - very holistic thinking! http://www.rwood.com/recipes.htm

Have been giving more and more thought to foraging based on the abundance that seems to grow on the roadside - a byproduct of my newly formed habit of the twice weekly hike! Any thoughts from Karmaland? - In the past have done blackberries & apples in the autumn - but not really clued in on where to start the rest of the year...

XO
RT

Karmacat

Wow, what a great site, RT! I've bookmarked her.

Foraging .... I know the research says its okay, but I'd personally avoid anything *literally* by the roadside. Otherwise .... wild garlic, I know thats forageableabble... there are some flowers that are edible -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/31/flowers-you-can-eat
and these guys have a free pdf about it all

http://www.wildfoodschool.co.uk/urban/index.htm

Offhand - elderflowers, elderberries, nettles, poppy seeds, roses and rose hips (not sure if some breeds are better than others), marigolds (ditto).

I'd also say do what the native Americans apparently used to do - never take everything from one patch, always leave something there, so that that patch will keep on. I'd be interested to know what you find! As I said, I'm determined to do lots of blackberries; my next door neighbour has a humongous apple tree, but I suspect the apples go to the horses at the stables his girlfriend goes to. OTOH, there are lots of people round here with apple trees, and they often put boxes of apples by the kerbside for people to help themselves, which is very thoughtful.

Otherwise, if you can find a copy of the original Food For Free,