So it was back to the drawing board... I do have a bread machine, but it is old and tempremental so now I use it only for mixing and rising cycles, never to bake. I used the country white recipe from the book that came with the machine and it gives me a delicious rich white loaf. I bake two in the oven at a time. One is for lunch the other is kept for toast the next day.
If we eat bread for breakfast I don't like to serve bread again at lunch and will then do baked potatoes, rice or another carb for lunch.
This is my white loaf recipe:
Into the bread machine add 300ml milk, 1.5 t salt, 1.5 T butter, 4 cups bread flour, 2 T sugar, 1 pkt dry yeast. Set to dough cycle. When it bleeps put the dough into a loaf tin and cover, allow to rise again while the oven heats up. After about 15 minutes bake for 30 mins or less.
I then took that recipe and looked at how I could make it a really nutritious loaf of bread. My elder daughter is about to head into exams and I am mindful of the fact that she needs extra Omega 3 at the moment. The anwser came in Macadamia Nut Oil and Chia Seeds, both high in Omega 3. We use both raw on salads or the seeds on our porridge, but I used them in this bread recipe too and it was delicious.
Into my bread machine:
300ml warm distilled water
1.5 t Himilayan Crystal Salt
2 T Macadamia Nut Oil
2 cups white bread flour
2 cups freshly ground spelt flour
2 T raw honey
2 T Chia Seeds
1 pkt yeast
Set to dough cycle and cook as above when it beeps. This is superb with soups, great with egg mayo & sprouts, or simply with butter!
The second loaf also toasts well and is scrumptious with avo for lunch!