Atomic Shrimp - You Can Make Bread

You Can Make Bread

About The Video

A lot of people think making bread is so difficult that they never even attempt it. Actually, it's really easy.

This video demonstrates how really simple it can be to make your own delicious fresh baked bread.

You're meant to use 'strong' bread flour - as this has more gluten in it and should result in a lighter fluffy texture and better keeping qualities, but as this video demonstrates, if you intend to eat it the same day, there's really no reason why you can't just use ordinary, cheap plain flour and still get a great result.

The Music

The background music for this video is just something I threw together using Dance Ejay

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Variations On This Recipe

This recipe is intended to be a simple, foolproof basic bread - if you like it, you'll probably want to move on to more advanced recipes - some of these include eggs, milk, or butter and will produce breads with different flavours and textures - but there are also other things you can do with this basic recipe, for example:

Form It Into Different Shapes

Just divide up the dough and make it into any shape you like - for example, here, I've made a variety of different-shaped bread rolls - (methods, clockwise from top left: 1 - A heap of tiny balls of dough, 2 - A baton shape, slashed diagonally before baking, 3 - A short plait, 4 - A long plait, curled around on itself, 5 - A farmhouse roll - a small ball of dough placed on a larger one, joined by pressing down hard in the middle, 6 - A simple roll, slashed with a cross before baking.)

Feast Bread - To Tear And Share

Transforming the basic dough into Feast Bread - filled with bacon, cheese and onion - and designed for tearing, sharing, and eating with your fingers.

Stuffed Crust Pizza

Use the dough to make Stuffed Crust Pizza

Edible Bread Bowls

They're edible - they're bread-ible! - Completely Consumable Crockery! - Tasty, Toasty Tableware - they're Edible Bread Bowls!

Garlic And Herb Focaccia

Turn the basic bread dough recipe and into Garlic and Herb Focaccia

Breadsticks

Divide the dough into small pieces and roll them out into long thin strips - for crispy breadsticks, roll them thin and bake at a lower temperature until they turn golden brown and brittle.

For soft breadsticks, roll them to finger thickness or more and bake as per the recipe (they won't take so long to cook though, so keep an eye on them). You can let your imagination run wild - cover them with different things (here, tomato and herbs, cheese, oats) and twist them into different shapes before baking.

Harvest Celebration Loaf

Another use for this basic bread dough (although you need to make double the amount), is a traditional harvest celebration loaf.

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