English Mum’s Fresh Bread Bakeoff
So recently I showed you my simple recipe for easy step by step bread. I had a lot of comments from people saying they’d quite like to have a go – so now’s your chance! The newest, shiniest bakeoff is here – and it’s all about fresh bread! What do you fancy baking? A nice crusty loaf? Some shiny conker-brown bagels? Sticky buns?
The Rules
As usual, we laugh in the face of rules. As long as you actually bake something bready, take a picture and send it to me (with a link if you have a website), you’re in.
Photos need to be emailed to me at: english [dot] towers [at] gmail [dot] com, with a brief note saying what your bakey masterpiece is and how you’d like to be credited.
Entries must be received by midnight on Feb 14th, St Valentine’s Day.
Cheating
As usual, a bit of healthy rule-breaking is to be embraced and any creative wavering from the theme will be acceptable. As long as there’s a suitably waffly and entertaining reason why, I’ll let you off.
The Techy Stuff
If you’re a blogger, please link back to this post, and if you’re a tweeter, please use the hashtag #freshbreadbakeoff. If you’re neither, then just ignore this bit completely.
The Prize
The lovely chaps at Marriage’s Millers (www.flour.co.uk) have very kindly offered to provide a prize of a range of their fabulous quality flours, plus some scrapers, so you can bake bread like a pro! The entries will be displayed in one enormous blog post (this bit causes a total hysterical meltdown in my non-technical brain, but don’t worry, I’ll get over it).
The Judge
The fabulous Hannah Marriage knows absolutely everything there is to know about flour, bread and baking and has foolishly agreed to be the judge. All bribes and dodgy approaches to be made directly and not via this blog. The judge’s decision is final.
So that’s it, then. You’ve got loads of time, plenty of inspiration, and some very ambiguous rules. Let’s get baking bread!
Hm… what am I going to bake?
[...] This recipe is a softer dough than I usually use for pizzas – it puffs up more when baked and is all fluffy and delicious. It’s a little more hassle than regular pizza, but not alot. And it’s nice to have a change Most importantly, this is my entry to English Mum’s Fresh Bread Bakeoff! [...]
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These are my son’s absolute favourite – if I ask him what special dinner he would like these always feature.
Oh and EM I have to say thank you – after seeing your fresh bread recipe I reduced the flour quantity in mine and it works much better – a lighter easier dough to knead, so thanks for that x
That pic is absolutely amazing, by the way – I was thinking it would make a great pic for a kitchen wall!
I am totally gutted, I made some wonderful heart shaped pizza’s with fresh dough (my first ever attempt) especially for your Bake Off and am having major issues my blogging platform which won’t allow me to include photos or links! I don’t think I will get my entry in to your bread contest but good luck to everyone who entered!! Ren x
[...] it really was easy and definitely one I will be using again and again. I am also entering this into English Mum’s Fresh bread Bakeoff, so if you fancy baking some bread pop on over and let the Queen of blogging know. Hasta luego [...]