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Produce => Recipes => Topic started by: tim on July 17, 2011, 07:03:59
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Now stop teasing Tim, they look lovely. What ratio of veg to flour are you using please ?
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It looks great. I like the idea of making it in balls and then putting them back together.
Yes yes yes recipe please.
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Many thanks Tim, your a star.
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I've only recently started making my own bread again, so I'll definitely be adding that to my repertoire. Thanks Tim!
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Your bread looks truly scrumptious and the pictures are fantastic.
Thank you :)
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Has anyone ever tried adding courgettes to a packet bread mix?
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Many thanks Tim. Looks good. Starting to get a glut so must get baking.
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Following good advice - picking very young this year, so no real 'glut'.
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Have made Tim's recipe many times and it is very good.
I make batches and freeze ready to accompany hearty soups for colder days
Would recommend it to all
debs
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I shall pass this one on to daughter no1. Thank you Tim.
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Credit where credit's due - it's from Roz Denny.
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I shall be making it tues to go with soup from our own onions
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Just tried it today on a gluten free basis and half maize flour ( that is the yellow corn flour one not the white cornflour the Americans call corn starch ) with a quarter rice flour and a quarter potato starch works with a tiny bit more water works with a teaspoon of baking powder. (mix the dry stuff first)
IF it is served hot or at least very warm.
Should any one finds it hard to find potato starch then get the own brand instant mash from Sainsbodies. They do the same at our UK WALMART = ASDA but it is almost twice the price. Seems their offer they advertise does not count because the quantity in the Sainsbodies pack is almost double the quantity in the ASDA pack.
Yes they have a right to compete but friends. Do check the price carefully on the price per kilo or litre. It is no sin to take a calculater and note pad out with you when shopping.
My OAP mates shop at all the major supermarkets and get a supply in for a month of certain items. Then do the rounds again.
THEY (the supermarkets) do not like it THEY want us to buy from them 52 weeks a year.
Also, do not forget Netto Aldi and Liddle. If you have a free bus pass use that to find out where you are to where there are stores on a bus route
Thankfully I live in an area where I can get a bus every 10 mins to major shopping centers in both directions and links to other places where there are routes to a load of places I can walk round and shop0
Plenty to do on rainy days when I can not tend to me lottie.
LOVE retirement. So much better than working.
Just hope me health stays with me.
Did 40 years working without a break and paid me dues but still feel slightly guilty about being retired.
I am fit and healthy
Then I see the numbers of people unemployed and do not feel so bad leaving the jobs to them. Wish people would stop asking me to return to work and offering me jobs. It is hard to say no to them. Not because I want the money but the challange is, well. Tempting.
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Just tried it today on a gluten free basis and half maize flour ( that is the yellow corn flour one not the white cornflour the Americans call corn starch ) with a quarter rice flour and a quarter potato starch works with a tiny bit more water works with a teaspoon of baking powder. (mix the dry stuff first)
IF it is served hot or at least very warm.
Should any one finds it hard to find potato starch then get the own brand instant mash from Sainsbodies. They do the same at our UK WALMART = ASDA but it is almost twice the price. Seems their offer they advertise does not count because the quantity in the Sainsbodies pack is almost double the quantity in the ASDA pack.
Yes they have a right to compete but friends. Do check the price carefully on the price per kilo or litre. It is no sin to take a calculater and note pad out with you when shopping.
My OAP mates shop at all the major supermarkets and get a supply in for a month of certain items. Then do the rounds again.
THEY (the supermarkets) do not like it THEY want us to buy from them 52 weeks a year.
Also, do not forget Netto Aldi and Liddle. If you have a free bus pass use that to find out where you are to where there are stores on a bus route
Thankfully I live in an area where I can get a bus every 10 mins to major shopping centers in both directions and links to other places where there are routes to a load of places I can walk round and shop0
Plenty to do on rainy days when I can not tend to me lottie.
LOVE retirement. So much better than working.
Just hope me health stays with me.
Did 40 years working without a break and paid me dues but still feel slightly guilty about being retired.
I am fit and healthy
Then I see the numbers of people unemployed and do not feel so bad leaving the jobs to them. Wish people would stop asking me to return to work and offering me jobs. It is hard to say no to them. Not because I want the money but the challange is, well. Tempting.
No offence ... but have you been drinking?
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:o . . .;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Poor Girl - I'm sure she needs a drink?
I know that I couldn't live without it!!
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Well this has turned out very well. Totally delicious and filling:)
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Noted, printed and maybe baked soon - I am only on my second courgette! But maybe I could use this to use up the Serpente di Sicilia that I am being told is a bit yucky just to eat??? :o
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the OH is making this to go with tonight's dinner of chicken casserole which is currently in the slow cooker doing it's thang...mmmm looking forward to it already.. ;D
So glad the diet is going well......not :o
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Well the OH went off piste and made courgette and gruyere cheese muffins with Rosemary..have to say they were spectacular, I will make the courgette bread another day but here is the recipe if anyone wants to try it..
Ingredients
• 225g/8oz self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 100g/3½oz courgette, grated
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 75g/2¾oz Gruyère, grated
• 175ml/6fl oz full fat milk
• 1 free-range egg, beaten
• 75ml/2¾fl oz olive oil, plus extra for greasing
• 1 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
• butter, to serve
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease 5 of the holes in a 12-hole muffin tray with olive oil. Mix the flour, baking powder, courgette, seasoning and 50g/1¾oz of the cheese together in a bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the milk, egg and olive oil together until well combined. Add the liquid mixture and rosemary to the dry ingredients and mix until well combined. Divide the mixture among the muffin holes and bake for 10 minutes in the oven, then sprinkle over the remaining cheese. Bake for a further 10-15, or until risen and golden-brown. ;D
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Why haven't I got a husband that like that ;)?
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Aah he's fab, he is currently trying out new recipes to introduce in the new school term, he's a chef but he did admit he pees in the shower ??? so nobody is perfect ;D ;D
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;D ;D ;D. I don't want perfect ;). I have 3 daughters & all their OHs (one is about to be ex OH ::)) are brilliant cooks.
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;D ;D ;D. I don't want perfect ;). I have 3 daughters & all their OHs (one is about to be ex OH ::)) are brilliant cooks.
I think it's great to have many cooks in one family it means you never have to dread going round anyone's house for dinner ;) I have a brother and mother who are chefs, another brother and 2 sisters who are brilliant cooks - it gets a bit competitive at times I can tell you ;D ;D
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Inspired by this thread to make courgette/cheese scones. [Wasn't sure my 99 yr old mum wants courgettes in her morning toast and marmalde ::)]
Usual cheese scone mix but it needs to be mixed with egg rather than milk [now I know] coz otherwise too damp. Nice thou will try again. Go well with soup, salad etc. :)
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I'm trying to pick them very young, but the buggers get huge between a Sunday afternoon and a Tuesday evening (zumba calss on Monday!). ::)
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Our daughter has been on holiday & the person looking after her plot didn't like to pick even though she had asked him to. She took a picture of her OH holding the 'courgette'. It was the size of a large baby, some chutney to be had there ;D.
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Looks like I shall have to get baking.
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Thanks for the recipe Tim - this was superb.
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Made this again with more cheese. It's Sooo Good
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So am I the only one that has had trouble making it into a 'crown'? :-\
I made this last week and it went well until I got to the bit where I knocked the dough back to make into balls. What a mess on my hands! Couldn't get rid of the stuff off my fingers but I managed to scrape most of it off into a cake shape in the tin and carried on from there. It tasted very nice, but LOOKED so much nicer when cooked in the crown shape. Where did I go wrong?
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Not had that problem myself but reckon some courgettes may require a longer resting/draining time. I usually allow an hour to be on the safe side.
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Making it again tomorrow to go with homemade tomato soup so will bear that in mind, thanks. (OH thinks I'm trying to turn him veggie, with garden produce
maturing thick and fast I've forgotten about meat!) :)
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anisemary
I reckon your mixture was simply too wet. If you make a lot of bread, by hand, then you get to know fairly quickly when the dough is too wet/too dry, and adjust accordingly. Often it is a matter of different flours absorbing liquid in a different way. After kneading this one, it should be OK to handle, and not stick to your hands. If it does, add more flour until it works OK.
I made this one for the first time last week, and was very pleased with it, even proud, as it looked so beautiful!
I would add a photo if I knew how to, but I've not yet had any success Can anyone help, please?!
Peanuts
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I think the key with thus bread is to make the dough dry if using a machine mixer as it seems to get wetter as its worked :)
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anisemary
I think I may now have cracked it - adding a photo to my posting. if all goes well, you will be able to see a photo of this bread that I made last week. Hooray, I've done it! Peanuts
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2rr8m00.jpg)
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Doesn't that look 'moorish' and very rustic, and I'm proud to say I have an almost identical photo taken this morning in my kitchen. I listened to what you all had to say and actually squeezed the courgettes out in muslin, couldn't believe the amount of water that came out. I also mixed in some wholemeal bread flour as it seems to absorb moisture better, and it all worked a treat. Tried topping it with a mixture of poppy seeds and extra grated parmesan as well, which gave it a tasty cheesy topping.
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Well I've currently got my patty pan draining to use in place of a courgette. Then I'm going to attempt to make this for the first time to take along to my lotti committee meeting in the local pub tonight. Fingers crossed it turns out :-\
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Well I've currently got my patty pan draining to use in place of a courgette. Then I'm going to attempt to make this for the first time to take along to my lotti committee meeting in the local pub tonight. Fingers crossed it turns out :-\
How did it turn out?
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Thanks Tim. I have made it before and forgotten all about it. Have such a glut of courgettes I have made one for now and will make one later to freeze, and keep making them. :) (I have also made Nigella's courgette sponge and the beebs choccy courgette cake)
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Right - ho it's rising as I type, this is the stage where I have to be patient. I usually don't let it rise enough and end up with hard, doughy bread.
Alison
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Turned out very nice indeed thanks, they cleared the lot :)
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Yes - totally delish.
Alison
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I plucked up courage and have just made this. It's in the oven as we speak. looking amazing. I've never made bread before, so the taste test has yet to happen, but thanks for the inspiration tim :)
Oh and I noticed the recipe you gave called for "2 sachets" of yeast :o :o I added a teaspoon to the flour. I hope I've done the right thing ! :)
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Swapped the poppy seeds on top for sunflower seeds and had it with butternut soup. Magnificent!