baking this as we speak!--woops already finished

[God de Vader]

Flower Pot Bread (or bread baked in a flower pot)

Ingredients
· 600g (1lb 4oz) strong white flour
· 11g (3/8 oz) salt
· 15g (1/2 oz) dried milk powder
· 15g (1/2oz) sugar
· 15g (1/2oz) butter
· 26g (7/8ths oz) fresh yeast
· 330ml (11 1/2 oz) water
Optional additions - pick and choose
· 60g (2oz) olives, chopped and stoned
· 60g (2oz) pumpkin seeds
· 60g (2oz) walnuts
· 2 tblsp mixed herbs
· 60g (2oz) cheese
· 60g (2oz) pecan nuts
· 60g (2oz) poppy seeds

Making Bread
Prepare your container first. If you do use flower pots use brand new terracotta ones and wash them throughly. Pots or loaf tin should be greased with butter.
Sieve the flour into a warm bowl with salt and milk powder (a little twist which adds a bit of sweetness to the bread as well as helping to make it light in colour). Crumble up your yeast with a little warm milk and mix it together with a little warm water, sugar and flour to feed it. Cream together and keep in a warm place for 15-20 minutes. When the yeast mix is ready add the remaining water and sugar. Meanwhile, rub some butter into the flour mix, the colder it is the easier it is to rub in, and add a little bit of wheat germ. Add the fermented yeast and start to stir them together gradually adding some warm water. Knead until smooth.

Cooking bread
Cover with a tea towel and store in a warm place to ferment for 45 minutes at 37/40 degrees C - body temperature - until it's trebled in size. Once risen, this is the time to mix in the dry optional additions of your choice. Knead again and shape into an oval. Criss-cross 2 strips of strong baking foil into the pots, allowing a 2 inch overhang over the edge. This will make it easier to remove when the bread is cooked. Divide the dough evenly between the two flower pots or place all the dough in the loaf tin. Leave to prove until doubled in size and then bake in pre heated oven at 220 degrees C/450 degrees F/ Gas mark 8 for 25 to 35 mins depending on its size.

[HKBloke]

GdV - you forget to mention where you could buy the bl**dy flower pot itself !!

[God de Vader]

eyh? Jayzus.....you got no flower pots at home? ok buddy go to mongkok flowermarket, is a nice outing for the lady anyway, treat her to a nice bouquet and buy few pots along the way....just small sized ones terracotta about 3 inch diameter i think would be perfect

[God de Vader]

absolutely deslicious@! try it out folks.......mmmmmmm those flavors....am only not happy with the crust, damn next time i will use the other oven!

[life]

what is the difference between "strong" white flour as opposed to a "weak" one..

Ohh and will any kind of cheese do?

Ohh and why do I have to make it in a flower pot???????

because of the flour?

[life]

Water, which question are you answering?

Hahaha.. just got your wise a*s answer to my wise a*s question. Good one.