Bread making - flavour

ASDMummy

So I make my own bread. Yay! It looks good, smells fantastic!! My husband eats it a loaf at a time (I make 1lb loaves) but I don't think it has much flavour.

I use bread flour, yeast, water salt and oil. I do a long overnight prove ( in fridge during summer, kitchen side during winter). Mix by hand.

Has anyone got any tips? Maybe I'm just too used to commercial bread flavour!!

archieboy

Have you tried using different types of flours? I like a brown malted flour and I add a handful of mixed seeds to it. There are also flours which already have seeds added to it and granary type flours. I don't think the supermarkets have a very big variety of flours but if you look at A..zon (don't know if I'm allowed to advertise them on here) there are mills who sell through them.

SailorSam

I was putting in a teaspoon of dried mixed herbs, but then during the Summer i had fresh herbs some almost growing like weeds there are so many, so now i put a big bunch of them.

DigForVictory

Give spelt flour a whirl. Delicious!
Checkout the "artisan bread" websites & chase up on the flour named there, too. And the dried tomatoes, onions, herbs & other goodies...
(If you find emmer flour on sale at reasonable P&P, please let me know?!)