Wholemeal, carrot and wheatgerm bread

I threw this together yesterday before I got stuck into the apples. I haven't made it before, but have carrots in the garden, and it's a healthy 100% wholemeal loaf so was worth a try.
It's another from George Dale's "More Daley Bread".

Tastes great, and I'll make it again!

Rye, Molasses and Wheatmeal Bread

I had some molasses that needed using up, so the latest loaf from my kitchen is another of George Dale's, from his book "More Daley Bread".

I'm not going to copy the recipe in, being respectful of George's copyright, but here's a photo of the egg sandwiches being made for lunch today. Organic pullet eggs from my friend Steph's very free-range chooks, and fresh bread. Nothing better!

The molasses is a stronger taste than I'm wanting in my bread, so I won't be replacing it now I've used it up.  I'm thinking that treacle would work as well in this recipe, although this bread would be good with sardines and was nice with egg.

Oat Bran & Wholemeal Bread

This week's loaf of bread is one of my favourites. Great whole food healthy loaf!
From George Dale's book - "More Daley Bread", which contains great recipes for breads which are low-salt, high fibre, low sugar/sugar-free, high protein, or multigrain etc.
 
George Dale is a bit of a hero in the bread-machine baking community.  He is a bread-maker technician,who found that most of the machines brought in for fixing actually had nothing wrong with them.  It was the recipes, or the inaccurate measuring of ingredients which were the problem, and he has published several books of great bread-maker recipes.  He's a Kiwi and offers an advice service if the cook is still having problems!


I've got three of his books,
Daley Bread : making the most of your breadmaker
More Daley bread : hearty wholemeal and special diet loaves in your bread machine
Traditional Daley bread : a selection of classic recipes for your bread machine


And now for the recipe:
Oat Bran and Wholemeal Bread

1.5 cups water
3 tablespoons milk powder
3 tablespoons honey
1.5 tablespoons lecithin
.75 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons oat bran
3 tablespoons gluten flour
3 cups wholemeal flour
3 teaspoons yeast

This is a 750g (1.5lb) wholemeal recipe, and on my machine, it is a Regular Wholemeal.

Garlic bread

Garlic is a great thing to have in the garden! I plant it around the tomatoes to keep the bugs away (pity it doesn't work on birds - they love to peck the red tomatoes!) and copiously around the apples for the same reason - in this case the moth that attacks apples.

When I harvest it - about now - I lay it out on the barbecue table to dry and then string it up in bunches in the shed. I've still got some from last year - it's time it was used, so I'm tossing it into every savoury meal. I love garlic and it's great for heart health.

My herbs are rampant at the moment too, so my loaf of bread this week was this recipe from George Dale's book "Daley Bread"

Garlic Bread

1.25 cups water
.75 teaspoon gluten flour
3teaspoons fresh herbs (I used basil - green and purple - rosemary, thyme, sage)
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons raw sugar
.75 cup wholemeal flour
2.25 cups high grade flour
3 teaspoons dried yeast for breadmaker machines

This is a 750g (1.5 lb) loaf, 'regular' setting on my machine.

Smells divine! Pity we haven't got a smell option on the Internet!!