Talk to Jackson's Bakery about your favourite bread recipes and you could win a luxury Yorkshire hamper NOW CLOSED

[AngelieMumsnet]

Jackson's Bakery have asked us to find out how Mumsnetters are using bread on a day to day basis.

Here's what Jackson's Bakery have to say: "Here at Jackson's we want to raise public awareness about local provenance and encourage consumers to regularly purchase locally sourced produce. What’s more we want to know how Mumsnetters use their bread day to day and broaden their culinary horizons. We have a collection of recipes on our website but we would love to hear your ideas too!"

What's your favourite way to include bread in your day? Do you start your day with some toast? Or maybe you like having sandwiches for lunch? What's your favourite type of bread? What about your DCs? Do you have to convince them to eat the crusts on their bread, or do they like the crusts?

Do you ever use bread in other recipes? Maybe you like making bread and butter pudding? Or do you use bread for pizza bases? Whatever you use bread in, Jackson's Bakery would love to hear about it.

Everyone who adds a comment will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will receive a luxury Yorkshire hamper containing: Barely Orange Marmalade, Yorkshire Chutney, Gold from the Wold 250ml, Orange Museli with raisins, Hornsey Clotted Cream Fudge and Heather Honey, plus some Jackson's loaves and teacakes (RRP £50).

Please note your comments may be used (anonymously of course) on Jackson's Bakery social media channels and possibly elsewhere.

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw,

MNHQ

[DurhamDurham]

Very quick and especially yummy Soda Bread

170g self-raising wholemeal flour
170g plain flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
290 mils buttermilk

200C, gas mark 6
Tip the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda into and bowl and stir.
Make a well in the centre and pour in the buttermilk, mixing quickly with a large fork to form a soft dough.
Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead.
Form into a round and flatten the dough slightly before placing on a floured baking sheet.
Cut a cross on the top and bake for approx 30 minutes or until it sounds hollow when tapped.

Delicious eaten warm, cold, toasted, savoury , sweet. I love to have a huge slice with a dollop of marmalade for breakfast.

We love bread in out house, my girls have always enjoyed it, never a problem...even the crusts were devoured when they were little.

For us bread is comfort food, makes any meal more substantial, more filling and more interesting. I would never give up bread or even cut down on it, I would rather make sacrifices else where in my diet.

[AndHarry]

I make large quantities of bread dough with olive oil and freeze it in balls to defrost as needed. I use it for rolls, breadsticks and pizza bases. My favourite pizza was discovered while camping this year: tomato sauce, pepperoni, wafer-thin slices of fresh nectarine and fresh chilli rings. Yum!

[Trills]

we want to know how Mumsnetters use their bread day

I don't have a bread day.

Should I?

Is it like a washing day?

[CheeryCherry]

We eat plenty of bread in our house. Usually thick white toast for breakfast for the dcs. Dh and I prefer thick granary toast. Our local bakers does a fabulous brown cob and a great walnut loaf. For lunch the girls prefer wraps or bagels, my son likes cheesy baguette or big breadcakes.
My dd made a lovely pizza at school with a bread base, a great recipe.
We also like currant tea cakes and ciabatta, croissants are a breakfast treat occasionally.

[dottyaboutstripes]

I've recently become addicted to toast spread thickly with butter and rhubarb jam. For me, toast is such a comfort food. I remember my mother's horror when DH asked for some bread to mop up the gravy after a Sunday lunch - he's a different creature from us as he's a proper Northerner and we are Welsh. She was almost apoplectic when he made his fave potato and gravy butty

[Housesellerihope]

I love bread but hate waste and never seem to get through a loaf quickly enough. I had an old friend from Marseilles who taught me an alternative to bread pudding which I love - beignets! You take stale white bread, tear it up, and put it in a large measuring cup. Add milk until it covers the bread and add sugar to taste (don't overdo it, it doesn't need much). . You can also add something like orange flower water or vanilla essence to flavour if you like. Let it sit for an hour until the bread has broken down. Add an egg and mix until you have a batter-like consistency. Then fry in butter and serve with maple syrup or sprinkle with sugar. Delicious!

[yeghoulsandlittledevils]

I love:
toast and butter.
Toast and butter and marmalade with a cup of tea. That is my favourite breakfast and now only a seldom treat until I can get my weight to stay down.
Those huge teacakes you get at some tea shops, with butter, food of the gods.

I love button mushrooms on toast or soda bread.
Hot crispy bacon sandwiches.

Toasted pitta bread sticks and dip.

Bagels with cream cheese

Grilled mashed sardines on toast.

Pate or Marmite on toast are also favourites.

DH loves home made jam on toast or soda bread.

We make cheese on toast and mine usually turn into pizzas with tomato puree under and olives, gerkins or onions with Worcestershire sauce dribbles, of course.

[yeghoulsandlittledevils]

Not forgetting chip or fishfinger butties. Especially good on holiday taken oyt to eat on thw beach early or late.

[SNOWBall4girlz]

We have toast for breakfast, one DD has chocolate spread the other two buttered. All three have sandwiches in their lunch and they prefer fresh brown muffins but also get 50/50 loaves with the crusts cut off.
my favourite breads are fruited, and seeded and I love my cheese on toast with cherry tomatoes.
We cook with bread and do make bread and butter pudding.
But other than chip butties and toast on a fry up and of course with soup it does not feature at tea time.

[sashh]

bread with cheese and onion actually mixed into the dough - and then eaten still hot from the oven.

[hermioneweasley]

I can't keep my family in tea cakes - packed with fruit and spices they are delicious!

[GeekInThePink]

I love bread...mainly all bread!

We eat a lot of bread at home.
Normally a sliced loaf and I wouldn't buy a white loaf for my DC
I particularly like :
a seedy loaf
Cheese top cob
Dorset knob rolls
Malted loaf

[GeekInThePink]

Mmm fruit loaf!

[Iwaswatchingthat]

I love bread. I used to go to a gym very close to a bread factory. Torture.

Anyway, I like all breads with 'bits'!! I particularly like nuts and seeds within bread and walnuts in bread are delicious.

Breads with a crusty topping are lush and I always enjoy the end bit of the loaf toasted. I never understand why people throw it away.

The only bread I am not keen on is that tasteless 'value style' white bread. I just don't like the texture and it always makes me feel bloated.

[Aethelfleda]

We are a very bread-heavy family. dH has packed lunch sandwiches every lunchtime at work, I grab a sandwich lunch, breakfast is sometimes toasty.

Favourite sandwiches at this end are coronation chicken, tuna melt toasties, and salami with mayo (DD likes that combo). We don't really cook with bread but love it in all its forms, baguettes, bagels, muffins, wraps, paratha, chapati, and home-made ciabatta and multiseed loaves....

[manfalou]

We love bread in this house... all different kinds of it and use it for so many things..

• Sandwiches
• Toasted Sandwiches
• Dipping in soup!
• Using in bread and butter pudding
• Crumble the end crusts onto pasta then pop under the grill to make it crunchy

I also crumble bread into stuffing (like with turkey)... which I also have a secret recipe for ;)

Love cheesy bread... and french bread... and garlic bread... Mmm Bread.

[lolancurly]

My husband makes a lovely white loaf based on a recipe from Paul Hollywood. I tend to use a basic white loaf recipe from the River Cottage Every Day book and it's versatile enough to use as a pizza base too. I have just recently bought some spelt flour and am going to have a go at a recipe for '3 minute spelt bread' that can be found on the Telegraph web site.

[Bubbles85]

I love bread: toast and jam, beans on toast, sandwiches... I could go on for ever!

[Elainey1609]

I love bread (however my diet dosnt)
I often buy speciality breads on trips to Borough Market
Any types to be honest but love fillings ...cheese tomato and olive is my favourite.
I have baked my own bread a few times, wish I had more time to do it more often.
I must say no bread gets wasted in my house .
very often use stale bread (however we don't often have much of that) to make crutons and bread sauce.

my secret craving is peanut butter on tiger bread. its just Much lol

[aristocat]

We all love bread in our house and eat lots of it!

Myself and the DCs usually have toast for breakfast and DH and DCs all have sandwiches for work/school lunches. I love most types of bread especially rye, soda, granary, ciabatta, bagels, croissants, even 'normal' white bread!
DS will eat all his crusts but DD is still keen on leaving them (if she is allowed) but she loves French stick/crusty bread Doesn't make sense does it?
DD is such a keen cook at the moment and enjoys making bread as much as cakes, we make all different shapes and it is brilliant fun.

[Gracelo]

This is a German (Frankonian, really) version of French toast, it's called Karthaeuser Kloesse:

Take stale buns (crusty ones would be good) and with a grater remove most of the crust, keep the bread crumbs. Mix milk and eggs (about 100 ml milk per egg), bit of sugar (optional) and pour over the buns, let them soak for quite a while, it's a good idea to put a plate on top to weigh them down. Heat butter in a pan, carefully toss the buns in the bread crumbs and fry in the butter. This should be done at a fairly low heat until they are nicely golden brown outside and cooked through. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Most people would serve vanilla custard with this but in my family we usually had a sort of sabayon made with my father's home made apple cider with it.

[sharond101]

We all like bread especially with sesame seed on top. DS and I are wholemeal bread lovers and we have it often for lunch, sometimes toasted. DH likes the seeded kind. We do pizza bases in our breadmaker. We often serve a saucy main meal with bread as a starch, meatballs with crusty bread is our current favourite.

[notagiraffe]

We have a bread maker. I love how it scents the house all day long. If we're in a hurry we use seed or granary bread mixes. I always make my own pizza dough - it's properly thin and crispy.

My two favourite bread recipes are rye with caraway seeds or home made focaccia drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with fresh rosemary sprigs and herby sea salt crystals. I sometimes push some olives into the mix too.

Favourite way of eating bread is on its own with butter and some soup rather than as part of a sandwich.

[worldgonecrazy]

My favourite Sunday morning sandwich:

Thick white bread.
Fried mushrooms.
Wensleydale cheese.
Brown sauce.

Yum!

[zippy30]

My little boy loved sesame seed bagels.
And we make our own pizza bases using strong bread flour. We also love seedy bread. But all bread is good! :-)