My friends (and you ARE my friends) Ned wishes to change your life by encouraging you to make your own bread. Do not be misled by those who tell you that bread is an unhealthful "fattening" food. This a libelous and preposterous claim. Now, if one were to slather jelly, cream cheese, peanut butter, etc onto industrially-produced bread, that, like french fried potatoes, would be an unhealthful food.
But we digress.
First, get yourself a bread maker, one of the great inventions of the post-war (pick any one) years. And the good part is, most everybody you know has either gotten one as a gift, or bought one, and was too lazy to use it. They will give it to you, or you can buy one for a few dollars a a thrift store.
Now if you can plug in a cord, you can make great bread. Here's how.
Ned's Irish Soda Bread
Place 2 1/2 cups ww flour into a bread machine. Add 1/2 c oat flour.
Add 1/2 tsp baking powder, and, if you must, 1/4 tsp sea salt
Add 1/2 c currants and 1/2 c quick oats
Then add 1 c buttermilk (BGH free or organic)
Set your bread machine on "Mix" and let this stuff mix for a couple of minutes then turn off.
In a plastic or glass cup place 1/2 to 2/3 c water and warm slightly in a microwave--maybe 10 seconds. Make sure it isn't too hot. Just slightly warm is perfect. Add 2 TB brown sugar and dissolve. Add 1 package dry yeast, or one tablespoon. Mix and let set until the mix starts to bubble, about 5 minutes.
Add yeast mixture into bread maker with original ingredients, turn on, set on "quick bread" setting if you have such a setting, and go away.
Come back in about 3 hours and you have a perfect loaf of healthy bread.
You can vary the recipe if you wish by deleting oat flour or substituting something like spelt flour.
Enjoy! and
Let Ned know how it turns out.
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