[New post] Neven Maguire’s Brown Bread Recipe

Padraic Guilfoyle posted: "  By Neven Maguire Celebrity Chef Everyone claims to have a great family recipe for wheaten bread. I've experimented with a lot of recipes over the years and this is deinitely the best I've tasted to date. It has a lovely sweet flav" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Foodaware Neven Maguire's Brown Bread Recipe by Padraic Guilfoyle   By Neven Maguire Celebrity Chef Everyone claims to have a great family recipe for wheaten bread. I've experimented with a lot of recipes over the years and this is deinitely the best I've tasted to date. It has a lovely sweet flavour but is still very much a savoury bread Ingredients 500 g (1lb 2oz) coarse wholemeal flour 125 g (4 1/2oz) plain flour, plus extra for dusting 1 tsp bread soda 1 tsp salt 600 ml (1 pint) buttermilk, plus a little extra if necessary 1 tblsp light brown sugar 1 tblsp melted butter, plus extra butter for greasing and serving 1 tblsp golden syrup 1 tblsp porridge oats Method Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F/gas mark 6) and grease 2 x 900ml (1 1/2 pint) loaf tins. Sift the flours, bread soda and salt into a bowl. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk, brown sugar, melted butter and golden syrup. Using a large spoon, mix gently and quickly until you have achieved a nice dropping consistency. Add a little bit more buttermilk if necessary, until the mixture binds together without being sloppy. Divide the mixture equally between the prepared loaf tins and sprinkle over the porridge oats. Bake for 1 hour, until cooked through and each one has a slightly cracked crusty top, checking halfway through that the loaves aren't browning too much. If they are, reduce the temperature or move the loaves down in the oven. To check that the loaves are properly cooked, tip each one out of the tin and tap the base. It should sound hollow. If it doesn't, return it to the oven for another 5 minutes. Tip out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely. To serve, place the brown wheaten bread on a breadboard and cut into slices at the table. Hand around with a separate pot of butter for spreading. Notes Neven says: Cook it ahead! The beauty of this bread is that it takes so little time to prepare, but you could have everything weighed out and ready to go beforehand, though it's hardly necessary. However, it can be frozen very successfully. This recipe and many more are available in Neven Maguire's The MacNean Restaurant Cookbook, published by Gill & MacMillan Books and available to buy here. https://www.rte.ie/snippets/email-form/?id=904040&type=article Padraic Guilfoyle | November 7, 2021 at 4:23 pm | Categories: Food, recipes | URL: https://wp.me/p5FCvn-9qi Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Foodaware. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://foodaware.org/2021/11/07/neven-maguires-brown-bread-recipe-7/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com