Some of my followers may recall that I love to make bread. I wrote about my enthusiasm for bread making Here I haven’t made any bread for a while because I have been enjoying an upmarket-supermarket bread, made with Flax and Spelt. Yesterday, however, I was in exactly the right mood to make my own bread again, so, how timely was this post from Forest So Green http://forestsogreen.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/making-oatmeal-bread/ It’s a perfect, detailed, easy to follow recipe for making oatmeal bread. I followed Annie’s instructions carefully; especially this very important one “While the bread is baking, it is going to smell very good. Ignore your thoughts to open the oven door. The bread is on its own now and it knows exactly what to do. Just sit back, enjoy the delicious aroma, and wait for the kitchen timer to ring.”
Here is the result. How did I do Annie? The loaves aren’t as beautifully shaped as yours but they taste ever so good. Thank you for a wonderful recipe 🙂
Annie’s Oatmeal Bread made by Gallivanta
I know that many folk no longer eat wheat based breads because of gluten intolerance/allergies, so they won’t share my adoration of all things bread. But, for me, there is hardly anything more soothing and rewarding than the process of bread making, followed by that first bite, from that first slice, of fresh-from-the-oven bread.
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Looks perfect! Yum!
So excellent and it kept very well.
I love bread too freshly baked and warm, it’s addicting…
Oh, it so surely is 🙂
There is nothing like home made bread. I used to make it all the time but unfortunately I have joined the merry band of gluten intolerant. Will have to find a decent recipe to meet my special needs!
Gluten free bread is tricky. I used to make a very good one in my bread making machine using a bread mix. My next post may interest you. (when I get to write it!!!!!).
You were not wrong – looks yummy…
Thanks for saying so 🙂
🙂 x
*peeringcuriouslythroughtheinterweb*
what’s that in the lovely faded ceramic blue bowl?
do you grow basil?
*impressed*
and those lemons look so cooling. (it’s v hot here – we’re Up Against the Fan)
https://silkannthreades.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/come-in-to-my-garden-maud-its-the-first-day-of-spring/#jp-carousel-2714 in the faded ceramic blue/green bowl, aka posy ring. There are also twigs from this bush https://silkannthreades.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/giving-thanks-for-the-rain/ Very Constance Spry, yes?????
we adore Constance Spry.
such a fervent example of That sort of brilliant English Woman.
make do – and make it beautiful.
As a former British subject and daughter of the far flung colonial realm, I have inherited a strong streak of the ‘make do’. The Make it Beautiful sometimes goes awry but that is why we need Constance to remind us of what is possible.
and Quentin Crisp, of course.
Indeed.
They look absolutely divine – I’m a bread fan. Funny, today I bought a ciabatta bread mix to have a go. I have not yet risen (excuse the pun) to the status of bread making from scratch!
Sometimes the bread mixes are useful if you are not sure of the quality of the flour available. However, if you can get bread flour and good yeast, making it from scratch is not so hard. I love a good pun, or even a bad one. Puns are fun.
Hey, I feel left out…you didn’t share a piece with me? The crack in the middle is so perfect…ready for a magazine shoot.
There’s plenty left for you. And I have any topping you would like to go with it. Come on over 🙂 Would Little Man like a slice too? In fact, I have so much bread I have had to put one loaf in the freezer!
Little man would love a piece too♥
Oh Good. I am delighted 🙂
I so agree! Looks divine~
I am loving every single slice of it 🙂
Ah, the bread made as play rather than work! You followed the golden rule: you played when you made it, when it baked and when you ate it! You are on course!
Elephant
You ‘called’ it! I was always think it is better to play with dough 😉 Speaking of play and fun, makes me remember fairy bread; buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands….is that still a birthday party treat, I wonder?
Ah, I can smell it from here! Looks sooooo yummy ! You made me hungry Gallivanta ! Would like to have some with butter and honeys ith my coffee !!!! 😃
And I would love to share it with you. I would make a special buttered piece for Malus too. Would he eat honey? Maybe he would like his with salmon 🙂
looks so delicious!!! Wow you really enjoy cooking!!! So nice.
Thank you. I do enjoy cooking…most of the time…but not always. Sometimes I would rather listen to music or go gallivanting. 😉
haha ‘go gallivanting’!
Yes, gallivanting is great fun.
Wow, your bread looks so delicious, I think you did a great job 🙂
I think I did too. You are a great instructor. 🙂
You are so kind and thanks for mentioning my recipe on your blog 🙂
If we ever get to meet in real life we will celebrate our joint interest in bread making with a slice of oatmeal bread 🙂
Your bread looks superb, well done … 😉
Thank you. I am enjoying another slice now.
As with most cooking, the process is meditative. But bread making has a certain quality that gives a Zen effect.
Exactly. In fact, I heard one of our local artisan bakers being interviewed on the radio this morning and she said much the same thing.
Okay, this is going to get made in our house, perhaps I will get my pastry chef husband to make it for me! It looks REALLY good and a perfect vehicle for…um…butter!!! (Diet, what diet?)
Yep, butter and honey ; or butter and cheese; or butter and peanut butter. And I had mine with butter and vegemite. Did you encounter vegemite on your travels?
I tried to avoid it at all costs… 🙂
It has that effect on those who were not brought up on it!!!!
I can smell it from here, it looks super and delicious and crusty. I’d love to have a slice. Well from me you get a 12 out of 10 for this!
12 out of 10. 😀 You can have a whole loaf for giving me that score.
Oh yes please!
🙂
Oh I didn’t eat bread for a while because I didn’t go to the market recently. Your picture made me drooling, like I can smell the aroma. I think I must go to a supermarket tomorrow for some bread. 🙂
Maybe you can make some 😉 instead! I love the smell of freshly baked bread in the house. And the aroma of fresh coffee to go with it.
I am not talented in making bread but some other pastries. I had tried several times but failed. The bread become so hard and all finally found the right place, my neighbor’s fish pond ! Oh yes, that would be so nice to go with the fresh Java coffee that I usually have. 🙂
I am sure the fish were happy 🙂 Often times, even here, the problem is the flour, or the yeast, not the person who is making the bread. I hope you now have some delicious bread from the store and a lovely cup of Java coffee.
They look very good!
Absolutely delicious 🙂
This is a perfect post for a Sunday! Will have to try it. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe. By the way is it better to do it in a larger or a smaller shape?
I think the two smaller shapes are the best. They fit nicely on a regular oven tray. The advantage of Annie’s recipe is that it is very precise and orderly. The only thing I had to judge was exactly how much flour I needed and that wasn’t hard. Have fun. And, of course, as Annie says, the moment when your hands are the most sticky something happens; and it did!!!!! The phone rang.
Hahaha this made me laugh out loud! Can’t wait to try it 🙂
Let me know if you get interrupted too!
I think the two smaller shapes are the best. They fit nicely on a regular oven tray. The advantage of Annie’s recipe is that it is very precise and orderly. The only thing I had to judge was exactly how much flour I needed and that wasn’t hard. Have fun. And, of course, as Annie says, the moment when your hands are the most sticky something happens; and it did!!!!! The phone rang.
It looks too perfect to eat.
It was perfectly irresistible 😉
Lovely
Thank you 🙂
Mmmmm warm oaty bread fresh out of the oven……
Yes, just what my body probably doesn’t need but it’s good for the soul 🙂 Well, the bread is good for the body but what I put on it, isn’t.
I agree – I love baking bread, too, and Annie’s recipe looks like a great one! I told her I would have to try it, and now you’ve given it an extra seal of approval! Yummy! 🙂
You MUST try it. Her method made it so easy. I haven’t made an oatmeal bread using egg and milk before. I thought it would be good and it really was.