Breville Oven Deluxe: 50/50 Wholemeal Bread

Ok Louise, you asked for it, and here’s the first of a new category:  Recipes.

Ingredients	1kg	750g
Water	400 ml	350 ml
Oil	2 tablespoons	1 tablespoon
Salt	2 teaspoons	1.5 teaspoons
Sugar	3 tablespoons	2 tablespoons
Wholemeal plain flour	2 cups	1.5 cups
Edmonds High Grade flour	2 cups	1.5 cups
Gluten flour	2 tablespoons	1.5 tablespoons
Milk power	2 tablespoons	1.5 tablespoons
Yeast	4 tablespoons	3 tablespoons

 

Add the ingredients in the order they appear. 

The water is luke warm.

Use the wholemeal setting on the bread oven.  This allows the flour to begin to absorb the water.

*On my bread oven I set the crust to light, I also found that 2 tablespoons of sugar was too sweet so I’ve cut it back.  I also added in 1/3 cup (total) sunflower and pumpkin seeds.  My oven beeps 5 minutes before the 2nd knead, this is when you add the seeds.

If you add more than 1/3 cup of grains (which you should soak for 20 minutes in hot water) you reduce the flour by the same amount.

And it must be good, Mark was after the sunflower seeds in last night’s bread but alas I’d run out.

Boy how that man has changed.

I extolled the virtues of eating Vogel’s bread instead of white bread and now look, he’s asking to have seeds added.  He’s never asked for seeds voluntary before.

Hey, I promise I didn’t try to change him

Sssshh, don’t tell them

The boys are off to the vet tomorrow.  They wont like it.  It’s time for their annual vaccination which also means they get a bit of a tidy-up.  Their coats are so long and thick that they’re prone to knots.

While I’m happy to brush them, they’re not.

So while they are there they get a little sedative to make them more calm and the lovely people at Marshall & Pringle comb them, and shave what they can’t comb out.

Really the girls there fuss over the boys, they have lots of stories to tell us when we arrive to pick them up.

As well as the groom, they’ll get wormed as well.  Mark and I aren’t the best when it comes to forcing their wee mouths open and trying to quickly but delicately shove the tablet down the back of their throat.

Finally

Last night the call was made the software release would go … at 5pm.  I wasn’t in the meeting, I was busy trying to set up the board room ready for today’s internal training workshop.

So I get back to my desk, having already logged off my laptop and ask “so?”  My spirits dampened when I found out the release was going today, but not until after 5pm!

Great, I finish at 4pm and now have to fluff about waiting, Waiting, WAITING.

I had to phone Mark and give him the good news.  He’d probably beat me home from work and have to get dinner under way.  That was meant to be my job.

As it turns out, we got the release on the website smartly and I beat Mark home by about 3 minutes.  He tells me he was cycling along the footpath (they’ve just laid new chip and it’s THICK) approaching the roundabout when he saw me turning right at it.

First thing was first.  It was time to make a new loaf of bread.  I got all the ingredients out and then it suddenly dawned on me the recipe was on my laptop.  My laptop was at work.

I thought for a minute and discussed with Mark and reckoned I probably could guess the right quantities.  Bummer, we’d run out of sunflower seeds.  Ah ha!  I found some pinenuts, they’ll do as a replacement.  Mark wasn’t keen on me putting walnuts in, in place of the sunflower seeds.

The loaf turned out just fine, though I did have to add a few handfuls of bread mix (and a bit of yeast) while it was on it’s first knead.  It looked a bit too wet.

Now I need to look and see how close I was to getting the recipe right.  It made me laugh, Carolyn who gave me the recipe makes the loaf every day and said she’d need to get the recipe book back from me the same day to make her loaf.  Well here I was having made it just the once and I managed to make it again from memory.

Dinner was late, it was 7pm when we were eating, and because the loaf takes 3.5hrs to bake I knew it would be a late night to bed as well.

Thankfully Child of our Time was on.  It’s a British series which is quite interesting.  They were discussing different children and the way they cope with stress.

Mark decided I was like the little Jewish girl, Rebecca, who never thought she did well enough.  I’m not sure if I’m happy with this comparison, probably because I know there’s some truth to it, and perhaps because I don’t always like this trait.  Though sometimes it’s good to be driven, but not to obsession

This morning I looked back on comments left on Rachel’s blog.  I was looking for the RSS feed for Rachel’s new blog and was furiously giving her instructions in my comments how to add a Text Widget to create an RSS subscribe button.

Nadia questioned why I would do this because the address bar in FireFox has the subscribe button.

Doh!

Talk about not seeing the wood for the trees.

Anyway, it got worse because I realised I didn’t even need the button to know what Rachel’s blog feed would be.  I could have added it yesterday manually.

Right, I better tootle off and finish getting myself organised for today’s training course.  I’m running the same tomorrow for another group of our Development group.  It’ll be interesting.  Training our own staff is always enjoyable, but also a little frightening.  It’s when you realise there are people in the room that actually might have a few more clues about our product, and come up with more curly questions to ask.

Bring it on