This is the Bread Thread!

[LocalEdLeicsshire]

Rightho, I'm making bread. Specifically, I'm making the Mumsnet Loaf!This is something I've just invented - or rather, am on the very cusp of inventing. I'm hoping to be able to make my own bread every day, baking it to fit around my daily schedule. I've been taking advice from the man behind this great blog No Bread Is An Island. Here's the stuff. Here's the plan:

The Mumsnet Loaf recipe

Ingredients
500g strong flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 teaspoon dried active yeast (2gms or less)
350ml lukewarm water
2 tbsp olive oil

Method
Step 1: Get the kids to bed. Dissolve the yeast in the water. Mix the flour and salt in the food storer, then add the yeast liquid and olive oil.
Leave overnight in the kitchen.

Step 2: To be performed by my as-yet-unwitting husband. In the morning, (when, my love, you usually amble round the house just eating bananas and wishing someone else was up), shape the mixture into a loaf (adding more flour if it’s too wet) and place in an oiled loaf tin. Put the tin in an oiled plastic bag in the fridge.

Step 3: Get home from work/school, and bake the loaf at 220C for about 25-30 minutes.

We're not 100% sure it will work, me and the breadman, but if it did, it would be a great, no-hassle loaf. To make things a little harder, I'm going to try it with 100% wholemeal flour, which doesn't seem to be a popular bread-maker's choice.

What do you think? Have I just revolutionised bread-making? Will I put Greggs out of business? Or is this destined to be a sorry, sticky failure?

A quick message to all on the bread thread (and especially breadandwine, for all the help!): I've just, with regret, had to resign from my post of local ed for Leicestershire. Too much bread to make, too many other part-time jobs clamouring for my attention! I'll still be around till Easter, but expect a new local ed to be in place very soon. They might well have the same username as me, but may not be quite so interested in bread....

And to round off my adventures in bread, you'll be pleased to know that I have managed to incorporate the making of four Grant loaves a week into my daily routine. I much preferred them to my own Mumsnet creations, so went with them in the end. They don't fit so nicely into my daily routine, but they are manageable. Either way, it's bread!

Thanks again, everyone.