Coming back home into the warm I decided to make some soup
and bread – just the thing for such a cold day. I love making soups – and being
a skinflint this is a lovely cheap one.
Here is the recipe
Here is the recipe
1 white onion – chopped roughly and cooked quite gently in a
generous knob of butter until golden and soft.
Add approx. 900g frozen peas – the cheapest ones and a few
florets of frozen broccoli, 4 Lincoln Q)uorn sausages sliced, a desert spoon of
garden mint – mine was in the freezer from last summer. Its nice to find a use
for it. The add 1.2 litres boiling water, 2 vegetable stock cubes, some black
pepper. Bring to the boil, simmer for around 20 minutes. Liquidise about 700ml
of the soup well (try not to put quorn sausage slices into the liquidiser pot
though. Mix back into the un-liquidised soup.
Now for the recipe for the bread –
1 kg white flour – I used spelt flour as it was on offer at
Aldi (I promise you I don’t have shares in Aldi, just good food cheap)
2 sachets fast action yeast Aldi don't sell these at the moment - I had to go to the COOP next door.
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoon salt
Mix all the above ingredients well
Knob butter melted in 300 ml whole or semi skimmed milk then
made up to 1.3 litres with boiling and
cold water to make lukewarm temperature. Stir into the dry ingredients mix well. Leave
to stand for a few minutes to let the flour soak up the liquid. This makes it
easier to knead.
Knead for around 5 minutes – you might need to squeeze and
pull it more than you would ordinary flour if you are using Spelt flour as I
did as the dough doesn’t feel the same.
Cut in half roll in flour, and place each half in a 2 pound
pre-greased bread tin. Place in airing cupboard or other warm, draught free
place for about 45 minutes.
Place in a preheated oven – mine is a fan oven and I put it
on 180 degrees. Cook for 45 minutes. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes or so then
tap the tin around the sides and turn out onto a rack to cool. Cover with a clean
tea towel.
Finally do what I have just done – indulge in big bowl of
the soup with rather to much of the warm bread covered in real butter while
watching Gardener’s World. Very cosy!
Keep in touch , I’d love to hear your news
Caroline
xx
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