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Homemade bread

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Thought I would give baking bread a go by hand. A very quick method and was so easy it made me feel a bit silly for not realising it was this quick and simple to do.

350g bread flour

200ml warm water

2 tbsp sunflower oil

1/2 tsp dried yeast

1 tsp salt

Mix the water, salt, yeast and oil together. Then add the flour. Work together to form a sticky dough.

Place on a mat/surface with some flour and knead. This one required being rolled in on itself a few times after a short time kneading (like you would roll up a pair or trousers for packing), and pinched in where it joins.

Then place in a tray on baking paper and cover with a tea towel for half an hour to give it time to rise.

Then score down the middle with a knife to give it room to spread. Sprink with flour. Bake for 25 mins at 190 Celsius. (Halfway through take out and sprinkle or spray a bit of water on it).

Very pleased with this, it’s very tasty.

(c) K Wicks

Strawberry cheesecake

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I used my other cheesecake recipe for this, but reduced the ingredients slightly and swapped raspberries for strawberries.

Ingredients:

150g digestive biscuits

50g melted butter

170ml double cream

60g caster sugar

300g cream cheese

125g fresh strawberries

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

These will be the speed version – a more detailed cheesecake approach is here for the Raspberry Cheesecake recipe I have used for a few years, which started as blueberries so really, whichever fruit you choose is good.

Crush the biscuits, melt the butter. Mix them.

Then put into the paper lined tin and press down, put in fridge.

Then mix the sugar and double cream together until super smooth and silky. In a separate bowl soften the cream cheese. Then add the creamed sugar and vanilla extract. At this point I blended about 80g of the strawberries and added to the mixture – folding everything through to make sure all mixed.

Add the creamy fruity mixture on top of the biscuit base and evenly distribute to the edges. Put back in fridge. Is ok after a couple of hours, but for best results leave overnight. Then I add fresh cut strawberry when ready to serve.

As we won’t eat the whole cheesecake at once, I dress each piece with strawberries when ready 🙂

It was rather delicious and makes me wonder why it took me so long to make one!

(c) K Wicks