Mankomo's Farmhouse Bread |
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Prep Time: 60 Minutes Cook Time: 60 Minutes |
Ready In: 120 Minutes Servings: 2 |
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This bread is what we in South Africa would term plaasbrood - farm bread. You know the one, those loaves made by generations of farmer's wives where no written recipe really exists. No bread machine needed for this, kneading takes all of 10 minutes with two rising periods. Delicious. The recipe appears in Quiet Life, a Buddhist recipe book. Ingredients:
500 g wholewheat flour |
500 g white bread flour |
20 ml salt |
1 sachet instant dried yeast (10 g, or enough for 1kg of flour) |
25 ml sugar |
80 ml melted butter (optional) |
750 ml lukewarm water |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 200C / 392°F.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients and then add the butter if using.
3. Gradually mix in the water and knead until you have an elastic dough which comes away from the sides of the bowl. If kneading by hand, do so for 10 minutes, 3 minutes with a food mixer.
4. Allow to rise in a warm place, covering the bowl with clingwrap until the dough has doubled in size.
5. Knead again lightly and place in a bread tin (at this point you can divide the dough if it is too much for one tin).
6. Leave to rise again until doubled.
7. Bake at 200C/392F for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 180C/356F and bake for a further 45 minutes or so, or until the loaves sound hollow when tipped out and knocked with your knuckles.
8. You can use a variety of different flours in this recipe, as long as you end up with 1kg of flour in total.
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