My seed and grain loaf

When you do a great deal of cooking there comes a point where you start to ignore the books and make recipes up yourself. I do that most of the time now with everyday, family meals. But baking is different. You can't be cavalier and miss out an egg or add a bit more flour without drastically altering the outcome of a recipe...usually for the worse.

But I have just perfected my own bread recipe - and it works! I adapted it from a variety of other recipes from BBC Good Food Magazine, my breadmaker recipe leaflet and Rose Prince's New English Kitchen cookbook.

My Seed & Grain Loaf

• 1 tsp yeast
• 250g wholemeal bread flour
• 250g white, multi-grain bread flour (Hovis do a good one)
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tbsp runny honey
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp seeds (I use a mixture of sesame and sunflower seeds, but pine nuts, pumpkin seeds and linseeds are also great)
• 300ml milk

This goes in my bread machine on a wholemeal setting, with the seeds in the nut dispenser. It is equally good made into rolls or as a loaf.

If you want to know how to make bread dough without a bread machine have a look here.