It's been a long time!

OK.....so I got distracted and havent blogged for some time now.  But now I'm back to tell you my latest adventures as a dough ball.

This week, I baked a fabulous bread.  Would love to say it was my idea but no, I came accross this recipe for Beetroot Bread and just couldn't believe it. I had visions of a pink glutinous mass, but I just had to try it to prove that I was right!

Basically, I grated 2 medium sized cooked beetroot (not in vinegar!) into my flour before adding the water and yeast mix.  Care! The grated beatroot has lots of moisture so you won't need as much water.  The dough was indeed a pink mass, with red bits throughout.  Left it to proove etc. and it behaved very well.

When cooked, the bread had a lovely crisp crust, quite thick, almost like a sourdough.  Inside, the pinkness had subsided to reddish brown.  The texture was beautifully open and so moist.  A lovely earthy flavour which I would never have guessed as beetroot, just fabulous.  So my scepticism has been proved wrong yet again.

Now I'm going to try a sourdough with courgette.  I'll be back in a day or so to tell you how it went.