25/04/2025
Mark’s Magic Loaf 🍞 Recipe
Our guests love Mark’s homemade, soft bread and so we thought we would share our recipe with you, so you can make at home. A little reminder of your stay with us at The Hideaway!
You can change and mix up the flour to suit your taste as long as it is 500g in total. O flour is fine to use too. Manitoba makes it more light and slightly chewy.
200 g Brown / integrale flour
300 g Manitoba flour
1 sachet Dried yeast or 1 cube of fresh yeast
300 mls Luke warm water
1 tablespoon Black treacle or 1 tablespoon dark sugar
1 teaspoon Olive oil
1 teaspoon Salt
We make our bread in our bread making machine but you can also use the same recipe and bake in the oven. Make sure you leave the bread to rise well (covered with a damp tea towel) for at least half and hour, then knock back slightly and leave to rise again before baking.
If using a bread making machine -
1. Add the water, yeast, treacle and olive oil to the tin.
2. Next add the flours and salt.
3. Use a medium setting on your bread maker to bake your bread.
4. You can also add sunflower and pumpkin seeds to your bread. Delicious!
If using an oven -
1. Add the flours and salt to a bowl.
2. Mix the yeast with the liquids.
3. Pour liquids over the flour, bring to a ball and kneed well for at least 10 minutes until dough is silky.
4. Cover with a damp cloth and leave to rise for at least 30 minutes in a warm place until doubled in size.
5. Knock the dough back slightly and kneed gently briefly then shaper as required (loaf/ rolls).
6. Place on a greased baking tin or on baking sheet and cover again. Leave to rise again for 30 minutes.
7. Preheat the oven to 240oC /460oF/ Gas 9.
8. Reduce oven temperature and bake on 190oC/ 370oF/ Gas 5 for around 30 minutes for rolls or 45 minutes for a loaf until bottom of loaf/ rolls sound hollow when tapped.
8. Enjoy!
Makes one 500g loaf or 12 rolls.
