Name: Ballymaloe Brown Yeast Bread
Cuisine: Ireland
Ingredients: 1.4 litres water at blood heat (mix yeast with 300 ml lukewarm water approx.); 20 g salt; 1–2 well rounded teaspoons black treacle; 350–450 ml water at blood heat (mix yeast with 150 ml lukewarm water approx.); 1.6 kg wholemeal flour; 5 g salt; 450 g wholemeal flour; sesame seeds (optional); 55–110 g fresh (baker’s) yeast; 30 g fresh (baker’s) yeast; 1 teaspoon black treacle

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

About

Yeast is a living fungus and to grow it requires warmth, moisture and nourishment. It feeds on sugar and produces carbon dioxide which makes the bread rise. Hot water above 110°F will kill yeast; have the ingredients and equipment at blood heat. The yeast will rise on sugar or treacle. At Ballymaloe we use treacle. The dough rises more rapidly with 110 g yeast than with only