The Perfect Pressie for your Family and Friends…The Wild Foods Calendar from Macreddin Village for €7.50 inc P&P. There are some great photos from the past twelve months of harvesting and celebrating Ireland’s abundance of Wild Foods for our kitchens and The Strawberry Tree Pantry. If you would like to get your hands on one of these calendars then call BrookLodge on 0402-36444 and we’ll pop one in the next day’s post.
375 grams Organic Whole-meal flour
500 grams Organic natural yoghurt
75 grams Organic black strap Molasses or Treacle
9 grams Baking Powder
5 grams Bread Soda
3 grams Fine Sea Salt
1 small Organic egg
25mls Organic Sunflower oil
Mix all ingredients, until it forms a light, nearly runny dough, similar to the consistency of porridge. Flour a baking tin, pour in mixture and bake at 230 degrees for 14 minutes. Then drop temperature to 180 degrees. Fan Assisted Oven – reduce 160 over the same time-span and bake for an hour.
Let the bread rest for 1 hour in the tin before taking it out. Fully cool out, on a wire rack.
Is a firm moist brown bread that works well cut hot or warm, but will also keep for a day or two with the moisture from the yoghurt and molasses. What you also get is the perfect accompaniment to our Wild garlic Pesto.
