Walnut Bread

Name: Walnut Bread
Yield: Makes 2 loaves
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 20 g compressed fresh yeast; 200 g whole, shelled walnuts; 1 teaspoon sea salt; 500 g bread flour; 2 tablespoons walnut oil; rice flour; 1 teaspoon castor sugar; 250 ml warm water; 1 egg yolk

Preparation info

Makes
2
loaves

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Paramount Cooking

By Christine Manfield

Published 1995

About

This is a very manageable bread dough to work with, easy to roll out, not at all sticky, and so a good starting point. It is a wonderful bread to serve with cheese, particularly the more pungent varieties. A generous slice of quince paste completes the equation.

Ingredients

500 g bread flour
1 teaspoon sea salt
200 g

Australian
Oceania
Australia
Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Put the flour, salt and walnuts in the bowl of an electric mixer with a dough hook.
Dissolve the yeast and sugar in the warm water and then pour it into the flour with the walnut oil. Knead with the dough hook on medium speed for 15 minutes until the dough becomes quite elastic in appearance and spongy to feel. The dough should not feel sticky; if it does, then to