Food and Cooking

[Wee Man]

Oh, nice. Never heard of focaccia. I've tried bread, I'm okay with it - I have the patience to make it when I have the patience. When I don't I just don't make it lol.

Is there a particular recipe you use?

Most bread is made from pretty much the same four ingredients (flour, water, salt and yeast) just in varying quantities and using various techniques. When I first started baking I just played around with adding extra ingredients to a basic bread dough recipe and seeing how it came out (Cheese and Onion were my personal favourite additions).

I find home baking to be a lot more fun and rewarding than what I make at work but it's definitely time consuming and does require a lot of patience and motivation. If you ever wanted a bit of a challenge I'd recommend trying to make sourdough bread. You ferment a mixture of flour and water (sometimes adding milk/yogurt/tops of certain fruits like plums) over the course of a few days and use that instead of traditional bakers yeast which gives the bread a slightly sour taste and a much longer shelf life. It also happens to taste amazing.

Sourdough Starter (the fermented mixture) Recipe: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/sourdough_starter_22976
Sourdough Bread recipe: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/how_to_make_sourdough_08213