Dwarf Bread
Ingredients
- 350g. wholewheat bread flour
- 100g. dried milk
- 50g. rye flour
- 50g. soy flour
- 50g. oats
- 25g. wheatgerm
- 3 tblsp. sunflower seeds
- 3 tblsp. ground flax seeds
- 1.5 tsp dried yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tblsp. molasses (black treacle)
- 500ml water
Method
- Put the regular beater in the mixer, not the dough hook
- Put all the dry ingredients in the bowl of the mixer, and stir together to mix
- Add the water and molasses and mix again. You don't need to beat vigorously just get everything combined until there are no dry patches left.
- Turn the mixture into a lightly oiled bowl, cover and leave for about two hours until it's doubled in volume.
- Heat the oven to 400deg F.
- Put the dough into a well greased loaf pan and put in the oven. Cook for about 15 mins, then turn down to 350deg F. and cook for a further 45 mins. This bread is too dense to do the normal 'tap on the bottom and see if it makes a hollow sound' test. It has to be tested like a cake i.e. cake tester comes out clean.
- When cooked turn out onto a cooling rack to cool.
This started life as "Norwegian Mountain Bread" from Nigella Lawson's "How to be a Domestic Goddess".
The new name came from the Terry Pratchett "Discworld" Series, but it tastes much nicer than the Dwarf Bread described.
We vary the extra flours (the soy and rye) sometimes using spelt or quinona, and sometimes using a mixture of white and wholewheat for the main portion.
We also alternate between malt extract and molasses for the sugar portion.
Adding 150 g of raisins makes a good fruit bread for breakfast.
The new name came from the Terry Pratchett "Discworld" Series, but it tastes much nicer than the Dwarf Bread described.
We vary the extra flours (the soy and rye) sometimes using spelt or quinona, and sometimes using a mixture of white and wholewheat for the main portion.
We also alternate between malt extract and molasses for the sugar portion.
Adding 150 g of raisins makes a good fruit bread for breakfast.