Paul Hollywood's Bread tv programme

Justamum

lynnemcf wrote: »

100 great breads is £3.99 in The Works, they had a pile of them in Redcar. DH said its better than his new book.

I'll have a look at that tomorrow - sounds like a bargain.

lovelife79

Has anyone tried the baguette recipe yet? Was thinking id have a go but I dont have a mixer, just wondering if I could do it by hand but then I wondered if it is a wet mixture?
Or will it be kneadable? Im guessing in ye olde days it would have been done by hand or wooden spoon? Och might just have an experiment n see what I end up with :-)

MrsE_2

Lovelife79 - I tried the soda bread recipe you PMed me. There is no butter or oil in it. It was very crumbly, too crumbly, do you think that was due to the lack of oil/butter?

Another thing, I've noticed some of PH soda bread recipes say to use bread flour, but I always believed bread flour needed kneeding to breakdown the gluten & you don't need to knead soda bread.

Anyone else thought this odd?

GetRealBabe

MrsE wrote: »

Lovelife79 - I tried the soda bread recipe you PMed me. There is no butter or oil in it. It was very crumbly, too crumbly, do you think that was due to the lack of oil/butter?

Another thing, I've noticed some of PH soda bread recipes say to use bread flour, but I always believed bread flour needed kneeding to breakdown the gluten & you don't need to knead soda bread.

Anyone else thought this odd?

Hi

I make soda bread and I use any plain flour. The recipe is from the King Arthur Flour Baking Companion. It's similar to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/irishsodabread_67445

but I rub in a tablespoon of butter/margarine and use whey (leftover from making yogurt) instead of buttermilk. The mixture is briefly kneaded.

MrsE_2

GetRealBabe wrote: »

Hi

I make soda bread and I use any plain flour. The recipe is from the King Arthur Flour Baking Companion. It's similar to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/irishsodabread_67445

but I rub in a tablespoon of butter/margarine and use whey (leftover from making yogurt) instead of buttermilk. The mixture is briefly kneaded.

Yes- I too always use plain flour, I was posting about some of PH recipes, they use bread (high gluton) flour & I dont understand that.
Also it was PH recipe that didnt use butter or oil.

Softstuff

MrsE wrote: »

Yes- I too always use plain flour, I was posting about some of PH recipes, they use bread (high gluton) flour & I dont understand that.
Also it was PH recipe that didnt use butter or oil.

I just looked at all of his soda bread recipes in "100 Great Breads" and there's butter in all of them, but not in the "How to Bake" soda bread. I'm wondering if it's a misprint.

Incidentally, I use the value white flour for everything I ever bake and it works out fine.

purpledonkey

7_week_wonder wrote: »

Ok folks, I can bear it no longer: I am going to have to get a Paul Hollywood book - especially as I have an Amazon voucher burning a hole in my pocket:)

But the question is: which one:
How to bake,
Bread, or
100 Great Breads

Which one do people recommend?

And I made a great discovery last night: you can freeze foccacia dough after the first knocking back then defrost it, let it rise again and cook it and it works out just fine.

I prefer How to Bake. I liked 100 Great Breads, but it's slightly out of date and the recipes call for fresh yeast opposed to fast action yeast (as a matter of preference I find it easier to bake with fast action yeast). Also How to Bake has some lovely baking recipes in too.

aliama

Quick question for those with the book BREAD (and for those who haven't, if you want to chime in ).

Do you think the grilled vegetable picnic loaf would freeze well? I really want to make this, as I think it would make a great lunch dish for my husband to take to work with him, but not sure how well it would keep.

Thanks.

lovelife79

MrsE wrote: »

Lovelife79 - I tried the soda bread recipe you PMed me. There is no butter or oil in it. It was very crumbly, too crumbly, do you think that was due to the lack of oil/butter?

Another thing, I've noticed some of PH soda bread recipes say to use bread flour, but I always believed bread flour needed kneeding to breakdown the gluten & you don't need to knead soda bread.

Anyone else thought this odd?

Oh no! Thats a shame. Just double checked recipe and defo no oil/butter mentioned. Also it says plain wholemeal flour and plain flour. I didnt find the bread crumbly at all but will look out for that next time I try it

MrsE_2

lovelife79 wrote: »

Oh no! Thats a shame. Just double checked recipe and defo no oil/butter mentioned. Also it says plain wholemeal flour and plain flour. I didnt find the bread crumbly at all but will look out for that next time I try it

Hi lovelife
Re the plain flour v bread flour, I didnt mean the recipe you sent me, but other recipes of his.
And the baker brothers - I think I saw them using bread flour for soda bread recently & that surprised me as I thought you HAD to kneed bread flour & you shouldnt kneed soda bread.