Peanut Bread
This bread is always a great favourite with the kids at teatime, loaded with honey or chocolate spread. For a change, serve it with cream cheese and celery as an energy-giving sandwich.
Ingredients
- 500 g strong white flour
- teaspoons salt
- 15 g yeast
- water warm to mix
- 3 ⁄4 jar crunchy peanut butter
- 100 g caramelized peanut chips to mix
Instructions
- Put the flour, salt and yeast into a bowl.
- Slowly add warm water and mix by hand until the dough is pliable.
- Leave in the bowl to rest for 1 hour.
- Add the peanut butter to the dough and mix it in thoroughly.
- The dough will now be sticky, so begin to add the peanut chips until the dough tightens up again.
- Divide the dough into two pieces and leave to rest for 1 hour.
- Grease a baking tray.
- Punch any air out of the dough pieces and mould into two sausage shapes, approx.
- 30.
- 5 cm/12 inches long and tapering at each end.
- Roll them up into a coil, place them on the baking tray and leave to prove for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
- Using a sharp knife, score a line down the middle of each loaf and dust each lightly with flour.
- Bake the loaves for 20–25 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.