After watching the TV programme Britain's Best Bakery, which Cumbrian celebrity chef Peter Sidwell co-hosted with Mich Turner (sugarcrafter extraordinaire), it inspired me to make a bread recipe from his book Simply Good Bread. The recipes in the book can be made using a bread machine or by hand.
I love homemade focaccia and walnuts in bread always work well. The dough uses a mix of strong white bread flour, OO Italian pasta flour and mashed potato from a baked jacket potato, this produced a very light crumb.
The baked focaccia is lovely dipped into extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Any leftover can be frozen away in slices - when you need to take any out of the freezer, defrost on a paper towel which will soak up any moisture and then refresh in the microwave.
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| The focaccia dough waiting to be baked. |


8 comments:
How lovely, you don't usually see walnuts in your foccacia but I can see how that would work.
Wow. That looks amazing!
What a glorious looking bread! I love the pre and post baked pics equally!
Home made focaccia - What a treat and very addictive, I'm sure :-)
That looks delicious, I made a focaccia yesterday for Sunday dinner with soup and it's almost gone.
Thank you for leaving such lovely comments.
What a gorgeous bread you've made! This sounds like the perfect partner for an olive oil dressed wild mushroom soup. Yum!
Hazel - posh soup does sound more inviting than my olive oil and balsamic dip:)
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