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Flower Pot Bread

Lesley Van Alphen
A bread recipe with optional kneading and where the bread can be cooked in a flower pot! Double recipe to actually cook it in a flower pot.

Ingredients
  

  • 1 teaspoon sugar or honey
  • 2/3 cups boiling water
  • 2/3 cups cold milk
  • 1/2 rounded teaspoons active yeast orange top
  • 1 cup white flour
  • 1 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 tablespoon bran wheatgerm (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon poppy seed sesame seeds, sunflower seeds
  • Dried fruit optional
  • Nuts optional
  • Raisins optional
  • 1 tablespoon of cinnamon optional
  • 2 tablespoons of brown sugar or honey optional

Instructions
 

  • Put sugar, water, milk into bowl
  • Sprinkle yeast on liquid. Leave to froth (about 15 minutes)
  • Add rest of ingredients
  • Mix well - can’t over mix the bread
  • Kneading is optional!!!!!
  • Fill tin (or flower pot) with dough
  • Put in oven at 70° C for about 30 minutes, or until dough has risen
  • Turn oven up to 200 for 30 minutes to bake.
  • Leave loaf in pot for about 10 minutes
  • To season a new flower pot, oil real well, and put in oven at 100° C for at least 1/2 hour. Do not wash pot, keep dust free.

Notes

You can replace both water and milk with 1 1/3 cups of warm milk.
You can make this in a normal loaf tin or in a flower pot, as the title suggests. If using a flower point cover the insides of the flower pot with tin foil. You will also need to double recipe to actually cook it in a flower pot.