The Bread Thread

[ardcarp]

Hasn't anyone mentioned Cwm Rhondda yet? It must surely have the best bread.

[Nick Armstrong]

Hasn't anyone mentioned Cwm Rhondda yet? It must surely have the best bread.

They did!

Cwm Rhondda!

[ardcarp]

Oops sorry. Late to the party as usual.

Edit: May I partially redeem myself with Berlioz' instructions to the percussion in Symphonie Fantastique?

http://davidvaldespercussion.blogspot.com/2019/05/do-it-yourself-baguettes-deponge.html

[Nick Armstrong]

Oops sorry. Late to the party as usual.

Edit: May I partially redeem myself with Berlioz' instructions to the percussion in Symphonie Fantastique?

http://davidvaldespercussion.blogspo...s-deponge.html

I’ve heard of a bread roll but that’s just ridiculous

[johncorrigan]

You're on a roll John. You are shaping up to be a contender for the Floury Farl Award and maybe an invitation from TV to compete in 'that competition'. Wouldn't it just take the biscuit?

Somebody gave me a jar of molasses, Padraig, so I put some in the loaves - seems to give them a lovely brown colour and sweetness. They turned out very tasty and looked good, and of course the smell circulating round the house is terrific. I don't experiment too much in my bread making, though I do a crackin' 'tear and share' loaf with olives and sun-dried tomatoes - a messy dough, but a fantastic taste. I also make a pretty good pizza dough, which is often in demand when the kids come to visit...not often this last year.

[Dave2002]

Somebody gave me a jar of molasses, Padraig, so I put some in the loaves - seems to give them a lovely brown colour and sweetness. They turned out very tasty and looked good, and of course the smell circulating round the house is terrific. I don't experiment too much in my bread making, though I do a crackin' 'tear and share' loaf with olives and sun-dried tomatoes - a messy dough, but a fantastic taste. I also make a pretty good pizza dough, which is often in demand when the kids come to visit...not often this last year.

I had to check that treacle and molasses are not the same thing.
They're not - at least in the UK. In the US what the UK knows as treacle is called blackstrap molasses.

https://www.ragus.co.uk/molasses-treacle-differences/

Anyway, I found this, which some might want to experiment with - https://cookieandkate.com/whole-wheat-molasses-bread/ I think that unless one particularly wants to have a sweet flavoured bread, for example for afternoon tea, it's probably best to add treacle or molasses in moderation instead of sugar - definitely not as well as.

[oddoneout]

Interesting soda bread recipe here https://www.theguardian.com/food/202...nd-gingerbread

As a child I remember being quite puzzled by the use of 'treacle' for golden syrup among my friends at junior/secondary school. Both were cooking ingredients in our house, treacle for gingerbread/flapjack type things and golden syrup for steamed puds and the open tart others called treacle tart.

[Padraig]

Somebody gave me a jar of molasses, Padraig, so I put some in the loaves - seems to give them a lovely brown colour and sweetness. They turned out very tasty and looked good, and of course the smell circulating round the house is terrific. I don't experiment too much in my bread making, though I do a crackin' 'tear and share' loaf with olives and sun-dried tomatoes - a messy dough, but a fantastic taste. I also make a pretty good pizza dough, which is often in demand when the kids come to visit...not often this last year.

Sorry for the crummy jokes about your baking skills, John. I can see you're a specialist. Me - I make a fair round of toast.

[johncorrigan]

Sorry for the crummy jokes about your baking skills, John. I can see you're a specialist. Me - I make a fair round of toast.

Not at all, Padraig...I don't get crusty about such things. I raise a toast your grill skills. (tea) I assume you don't have molasses on Ireland - I think St Paddy got rid of them them along with the mole laddies.