Walnut Bread

Name: Walnut Bread
Yield: Makes about 6 small loaves
Ingredients: 2 oz (50 g) walnuts; 2 oz (50 g) brown sugar; 8 fl oz (250 ml) milk, warmed; 1 lb (450 g) granary flour; 2 oz (50 g) unsalted butter; 1 sprig fresh rosemary; a pinch of salt; ½ oz (15 g) fresh yeast

Preparation info

Makes about
6
small loaves

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Shaun Hill's Cookery Book

By Shaun Hill

Published 1990

About

A variety of granary bread, flavoured by rosemary and browned butter as well as walnuts. This bread suits both creamy and blue cheese. As with most breads it freezes well.

Ingredients

½ oz (15 g) fresh yeast
a pinch of salt

Dessert
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Warm 2 tablespoons of water to blood temperature — just past lukewarm – and mix the yeast and salt into it. Leave in the warm to froth.
Heat the butter in a small pan with the rosemary until the butter starts to brown. Add the sugar and then the warmed milk.
When this has cooled to lukewarm, strain on to the yeast in a large bowl, and add the granary flo