Lockdown improved my baking. I wanted to bake some bread but couldn’t get strong white flour for all the tea in Tescos. Then this…
Plain Flour bread. And, you know what? It’s bloody good.
500 gms of plain flour, two of bicrab, half of salt, sieved. Add between 350-400 mls of plain yogurt and make a sticky dough. The range of yogurt doesn’t seem to affect it much.
Shape into a log and stick in a 900 gm loaf tin – I lined mine with grease proof paper.
Bake for 40-45 mins at 200C.
I had it with homemade lemon curd…
Dribble, drool. It freezes well. It doesn’t last very long but, it gives good toast….
My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published several books: a four book series following Harry Spittle as he grows from hapless student to hapless partner in a London law firm; four others in different genres; a book of poetry; four anthologies of short fiction; and a memoir of my mother. I have several more in the pipeline.
I have been blogging regularly since 2014, on topic as diverse as: poetry based on famous poems; memories from my life; my garden; my dog; a whole variety of short fiction; my attempts at baking and food; travel and the consequent disasters; theatre, film and book reviews; and the occasional thought piece. Mostly it is whatever takes my fancy.
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I see you’re also a victim of the covid-induced bread making mania! My poison is soda bread, but I’ll definitely give yours a try. Also the no knead recipe on Pinterest works well. Problem is, once you’ve made it, you eat it. And once you’ve eaten it, you acquire a spare tire. Sigh…
Yum! Strangely, white bread flour has been easy to find here for a few weeks, but not wholemeal which I haven’t seen since before lockdown. A couple of weeks ago I spied some granary in Tesco and got two bags, but that has vanished from the shelves again too.
Yogurt bread! Now why didn’t I think of that? 😉 Anything that makes a good toast is worth having in the house, I say. Thanks for passing along the recipe.
I use a Doves Farm wheat-free scones recipe which has yogurt in it – also very nice.
The soda bread makes a good pizza base too! Happy Baking.
Love the photo composition of finished product.
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Looks delicious!
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Try it. Its scrummy
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I might just do that!
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Looks good! And the fact that it freezes makes up for it not lasting too long.
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It’s really good at toasting too, not that it often lasts
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Well done! No need for yeast, I like that.
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It’s soooo easy!
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I see you’re also a victim of the covid-induced bread making mania! My poison is soda bread, but I’ll definitely give yours a try. Also the no knead recipe on Pinterest works well. Problem is, once you’ve made it, you eat it. And once you’ve eaten it, you acquire a spare tire. Sigh…
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Ah indeed. We have to be disciplined and cut off half to freeze almost immediately or its gone in a fladh
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Yum! Strangely, white bread flour has been easy to find here for a few weeks, but not wholemeal which I haven’t seen since before lockdown. A couple of weeks ago I spied some granary in Tesco and got two bags, but that has vanished from the shelves again too.
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Isn’t it funny how we get excited over such things!!
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I know, I came home in triumph and brandished my granary in John’s face so that he could admire my hunting / gathering skills.
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YUM. You had me a lemon curd.
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It is rather delicious. Be even better if we could get fresh lemons as i imagine you can
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Yes we always have fresh lemons. I’m surprised you don’t
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If climate change has it’s way, we may!
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Hahahaha.
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Yogurt bread! Now why didn’t I think of that? 😉 Anything that makes a good toast is worth having in the house, I say. Thanks for passing along the recipe.
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Pleasure you’ll love it…
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You are inspiring me to bake my own bread finally. I have quite some recipes at hand but haven’t found the motivation to get it going yet.
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Is dead easy Erika and great fresh or toasted
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See, your are such a versatile blogger, Geoff. You can go with every blog purpose, even a food blog!!
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Interesting way to get the rise with soda and yogurt. I love how real the loaf looked compared to those perfect store white loaves.
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Rustically challenged?
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Good point.
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I use a Doves Farm wheat-free scones recipe which has yogurt in it – also very nice.
The soda bread makes a good pizza base too! Happy Baking.
Love the photo composition of finished product.
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Its v good!!
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Think of all the dough you could make!
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A bread can only be classified as ‘good’ if it ‘gives good toast’ … I do like your turn of phrase there. 🙂
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Lemon curd…on delicious bread – perfect!!!
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Looks yummy, Geoff. I have a yogurt bread recipe but it used wholewheat flour.
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