Baking focaccia (and other delicious things)

[TrundleWheel76]

Following on from a chat on another thread, here's a new thread where we can post our bakes. A few of us are going to have a go at focaccia and share pics of the results. Meanwhile here's a wholemeal loaf I made this morning. 🙂

Really fancy a focaccia now but DH is off gluten- after pigging out at the weekend- and I need to drop a kilo or 2 before the 20th. If I close the door to wheat that’s half my battle won. I’ll come back after DD’s graduation though because I love homemade bread 😁

Just removed the finished product from the oven! Think it could’ve done with a couple of extra slashes. The worst part of making bread is having to wait for it to cool down before you can eat it 😞

That looks so nice!

Do I need special flour?

The focaccia recipe I found said to use all purpose flour but I know from my gran and mum making bread that bread flour is a thing.

Ideally strong white bread flour but it’s worth a go with plain flour if that’s all you have!

I always use strong bread flour.

I'm really bad at baking so just joining for tips/inspiration.

Yey! Looks fab 🙂

I've made jam 😋

Ooh lovely! Is it raspberry? Now you just need to make some scones

Ooooh bread. I made a nice focaccia last week, just with olive oil, sea salt flakes and fresh rosemary. Jolly nice it was too.

Try Richard Bertinet's recipe for baguettes. The plus is that you get to enjoy his French accent. You don’t need the fancy ovens, I just like watching and listening to him.

It's gooseberry and raspberry so you're close!

Blimey, you could take someone’s eye out with them!

Am just catching up on this board, as only found it yesterday, so am mooching through various threads.

This one made me laugh. It’s like, bugger me, she’s got things mixed up - there’s a cat and there’s a loaf. But it’s definitely not a cat loaf - IYKYK.

Seriously, am impressed with your baking and the other shots posted. Not sure why, I’ve never tried baking bread before (I’m not a good cook).

I’ve got completely obsessed with trying to make sourdough bread, years after everyone else started doing it in lockdown (typical!). Immensely proud of finally getting a loaf with ‘ears’!

That looks amazing!

Can people with kids not bake focaccia??

Thanks @Hereforthebread - it definitely wasn’t my first attempt, ha! Hope I’ve lost my fear of the starter now, though.

I still need to make bread! I haven't attempted it yet.

I did make jam today, though. It's so easy!

What jam did you make?

Blackberry - freshly picked from a wild bush in the garden. I feel all country-fied!

I completely forgot about focaccia but I did make some regular bread. Is there anything better than warm fresh bread with obscene amounts of butter?

Indeed there is not ItsNotRocketSalad and your bread looks delicious.

Oh, yum.