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Help, I'm knackered....
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Posted 12 years ago #
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I have a very simple soda bread recipe if anyone wants it, 5 mins prep, 18 mins cooking, no "ran out of time" excuses !
Posted 12 years ago # -
"I have a very simple soda bread recipe if anyone wants it"
CCE can cope.
(Won't be the first recipe)
Posted 12 years ago # -
OK, here goes -
300g wholemeal spelt flour (or any bread flour, really)
5g sea salt
10g baking powder
230ml buttermilk (If you dont have buttermilk, put normal milk in a jug, add a tablespoon of lemon juice, leave for 5 minutes and thats homemade buttermilk!)Method
Preheat the oven/baking sheet to 230°C/gas mark 8. While it preheats (and your milk is souring), weigh the dry ingredients into the bowl and blend together.
Add the buttermilk and, using a spoon, mix the ingredients together for about 2 minutes. The moment all the ingredients have mixed together and you have a sticky dough, flour your work surface and tip the dough onto it. Then, cupping the dough between your floury hands, shape it into a round and place directly onto your baking sheet.
Using a scraper / knife, cut a cross deeply into the dough and bake for 15-20 minutes, until your soda bread has a great golden crust and sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.
Adapted from a 'fabulous baker brothers C4 recipe' and made more idiot proof by me.
Enjoy :-)
It really is a doddle, lovely warm, and last a few days. p.s. you can use normal flour in an emergency - consistency is different, but still quite nice.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Yeah, I got a bit knackered in the second half of today's CTC run.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Soad bread is magic
DaveC - any chance viral/post-viral rather than overtraining? Just a thought if you have been pushing it whilst also run down? Same solution regardless of cause - Take It Easy.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@gembo, yes, I also wondered if I had a bit of post-viral fatigue yesterday. I was ill the week before last for several days, thought I had fully recovered but perhaps fitness levels suffered a bit.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Also this time of year seems energy sapping and I must say that as the days lengthen and getting some sun is helping enormously. I think your body is working harder to keep warm if you are out in the cold/wet and you are probably burning more calories than you think. A cold can knock you off kilter if you do not get some rest. Also there is SAD and I found the year before last a slightly defeatist attitude made me feel very tired.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@Liz, I find that cycling actually helps with any SAD effects: can't beat exercise in the fresh air and a bit of sunshine! I do think there's been viruses, bugs etc. doing the rounds when we had warm weather during our 'early Spring' recently. Maybe also that because the weather has been okay this winter, not so much ice and snow, that we're all out on the bikes a lot more than we have been the past few years. Unexpected levels of winter exercise may have helped to knacker out a few folk?
Posted 12 years ago # -
I put last weeks fatigue down to my blood donation on Wednesday. I've had a rest though and am on the bus today as ifs blowing a hoolie over tje bridge. Just spotted a few familiar faces on the bridge struggling into the wind.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Dave, for what its worth, after todays wind, I arrived in the office convinced that:
A- someone had poured sand in my BB
B- i was suffering post viral fatigue
C- it was very windysuspect C, but general puggled-ness half way in prompted other thoughts.
weather, eh?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Gearing up for the old FRB high wind traverse in a few minutes time... but its not so bad on the heavy winter bike and full panniers.
For general commute weariness, i find those nuun active hydration tablets do seem to put something back into my legs.
Posted 12 years ago # -
"
Ali Moodie (@Sideshow_Al)
2/20/12 8:41 AM
@CyclingEdin @BBCScotWeather #EdTravCyc don't mind the baltic conditions but the wind!! Came to a standstill on the #forthroadbridge"
Posted 12 years ago # -
Just made some of Nelly's bread and waiting for photo to upload to photobucket so I can post the results here.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Dave, hope it tastes ok - I have just popped a wholemeal version in the oven - will upload mine as a comparison in a bit!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Wholemeal, warm, soda bread - with home made soup
Posted 12 years ago # -
Just made some of Nelly's bread and waiting for photo to upload to photobucket so I can post the results here.
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Ahh. I can't resize on the mobile. but I'm sure you get the picture.
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We've just eaten in with marg & home made plum jam on.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Think I took mine out too early, still a bit soft in the middle, gotta pop it back in - now who said it was idiot proof..........
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ours was a little damp in the middle but we toasted it. yummy.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Dave, just done some more research - think that it is because I used wholemeal (previously used white) bread flour.
White flour is pretty much 18 mins, tap the bottom of the loaf, if it sounds hollow, job done.
Apparently wholemeal will take longer, and the trick is to skewer it after 20 mins, and then every few mins until skewer comes out clean.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Arrggghhh - you guys are just cruel - I can smell the bread from here...
Robert
Posted 12 years ago # -
Robert, mine was sadly not perfect this time, but trial and error I guess - want to persevere with the wholemeal, so will try and repost when I have a nailed on recipe - It will just be a time adjustment.
When I took some (white) in to the office the other week, there was general disbelief that I had baked it at all (!), and also that it (and butter/jam) arrived there via bike (why, I dont know).
Posted 12 years ago # -
For a lovely variation on your soda bread, head over to Real Foods and get some barley flour. Has a nice nutty taste to it. I use it half and half with white or wholemeal.
Natural yogurt is a good alternative to buttermilk. If you want to really spoil yourself, try a mix of double cream and whole milk.
The recipe I use (Dan Lepard's from Baking with Passion) has 30 minutes at 230C. If you find it's damp in the middle, try cutting into it more - right to the bottom. Or press it out flatter before putting in the oven.
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