#fruit bread

[punkbakerchristine]

bara brith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

or rather: what i imagine a pub in Cardiff would smell like.

kneading it even felt like how I imagine Wales feels like: deep dark forests, sprawling fields, mysterious lakes, hills with names that are about a mile long and half the letters are “y” and “w”, the echo of tom jones’ voice coming from… somewhere, and istg, if michael sheen and rob brydon don’t come out of that den up ahead on the back of a dragon, what was the point—

[opheelianna]

Trust the process.

via [miaspecia] on Instagram

[elixirstudies]

Gluten-Free Moist Choc Chip Banana Bread The fact that this moist, decadent chocolate chip banana bread is gluten-free is difficult to detect.

[aesthetic4u]

[quo-usque-tandem]

Strawberry nut bread

[alexsrandomramblings]

One heavily fruited and marmalade-glazed barmbrack ready for Halloween dinner.

[dr-ladybird]

No-rise fruit loaf

-best fruit loaf I’ve ever eaten.

-or it might be starting to morph into cake? Where exactly do you draw the line? Could be a good cake for people who are allergic to eggs.

-Anyway, it rises by means of chemical reactions rather than yeast metabolism, so you just have to mix it together and fling it in the oven.

-Vaguely based on Stella Parks’s soda bread recipe - if you want a great recipe for straightforward no-rise white or wholemeal bread to use for toast or sandwiches, google “Stella Parks soda bread.”

Equipment:

Oven

Large casserole dish lined with baking paper

Kitchen scales

Mixing bowl

Flexible spatula

Ingredients:

500g wholemeal flour

6g bicarbonate of soda 

7g salt

2 tablespoons powdered ginger

1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Half a cup of brown sugar

500ml buttermilk

100ml pomegranate molasses 

Cup of dried fruit

-I recommend a mixture of sultanas and dried citrus peel

-alternatively, just currants

-or add dates, prunes, dried apricots or candied ginger, cut into little bits 

Method:

Preheat oven to 250 C (480 F).

Put flour, bicarb, salt, ginger and pepper in mixing bowl, and stir together until evenly distributed.

Add sugar and stir it in.

Add buttermilk and pomegranate molasses and stir until you have a smooth, stiff paste with no remaining pockets of flour.

Stir in dried fruit.

Put dough in casserole dish and cook for 45 minutes with lid on.

If it’s dark on top, take the lid off and cook for another 15 minutes, then leave to cool. If it’s still pale on top, cook for another 15 minutes with lid on, then 15 minutes with lid off. Leave to cool.

Lasts for a few days in an airtight container. Good with cheese.

[ainye]

Sweet Yule Bread

You need:

75g of figs   ~ love, divination, fertility 75g of raisins ~ prosperity, wealth 75g of dates ~ fortune, protection, healing 50g of honey ~ lust, love, spirituality 1 lemon ~  happiness, health, purification 2 eggs ~ rebirth, life  100g flour ~ consistency 100g ground hazelnuts ~ luck, mental powers, wisdom 1 teaspoon cinnamon ~ healing, protection, luck 1 teaspoon baking soda ~ raising energy 5 tablespoons of orange juice ~ peace prosperity 5 tablespoons of whiskey ~ change, health

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 150 degrees (celsius) and cut figs and dates in tiny pieces

2. Soak the cut figs, dates and (whole) raisins in 5 tbs whiskey and 5 tbs orange juice

3. Mix flour, hazelnuts, eggs, cinnamon, baking soda and honey together until you have a rather liquid dough

4. Mix the soaked fruits with your dough and grate the skin of your lemon into your dough

5. Bake for about 45 minutes (until it’s gold brown, otherwise it will get too dry)