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Last Friday my class made 31 plant pot loaves - totally delicious - with homage to Jamie Oliver.

Why not have a go.

Makes 4 x 5inch plant pots

570g wholemeal flour
2tsp salt
1tsp muscovado sugar or similar
1pkt dried yeast
enough warm water
4 terracotta plant pots - plastic ones not so good

1. I always mix yeast, sugar and warm water to get things going.
2. Season flour and gradually add water/yeast mixture.
3. Form dough then knead thoroughly.
4. Add in sundried toms or olives or garlic, or all during kneading.
5. Place in oiled plant pots and leave until risen above top
6. 30-40 mins at 150C
7. Remove from plant pot with a sharp knife - always sticks - if anyone can think of a way to stop it let me know (HATH?).

Knocks bread-machine stuff into a cocked hat.

Next week vegetable soup in a wellingto boot.

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Thanks for this!

I really fancy trying this at home (no, I've no kids, I just like cooking!)

Can the pots be washed and reused?

ETA: can you line the inside with a strip of baking parchment? I use it for most of my baking and find it really helps with the non-sticking of things

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Ye s the pots was well and can be re-used, you might even put a plant in them!

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[quote=johnty greentoes;77261]Last Friday my class made 31 plant pot loaves - totally delicious - with homage to Jamie Oliver.

And I hope Jamie Oliver gives credit to the Welsh! This is a classic Welsh recipe. Sorry, my OH being Welsh, he points these things out to me on a regular basis

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I think that they stick because terracotta/clay is porous - I think that I'll line my pots with parchment or foil, perhaps, like OWG.

BTW, for those who don't like the idea of using old pots, Wilko are selling 4 1/2 inch terracotta pots for 29p each at the moment!

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update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

Oh, yummy.
I'm going to try your recipe with a slight modification...4 mins in a microwave instead of the oven. Idea lifted from Chas Griffin's book

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I'd be interested to hear how you get on. How do you get a crust in a microwave?

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Ah yes. You don't get no crust in the microwave. But kids don't eat their crusts anyway

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Take a pic and let us have a look.

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We did - we didn't have a choice! Oh ...still in rant mode..sorry!

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update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

My grandmother would have been proud of you Hazel!!
Bet you got lovely curley hair then??

Only if I pay for a perm - we can't have had the right sort of bread down here!

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update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

May be I was a very strange child. I always loved the crusts and usually ended up eating everone elses. Hair never curled.

The old wives tale I was brought up with is that it was the burnt crust of toast that gave you curly hair - or was I just a victim of being made to add burnt food?

Mus mention this to my therapist.

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We used to fight over the crusts in our house, Dad me and my sister loved the crust of a fresh white split tin with real butter.....

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Especially when it was still warm from the oven - which is how most bread would have been eaten throughout history.

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And still is, Chez Flum. Come to think of it, we're nearly history now. Whoops, there we go.

Flum

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I'll have a go at the pots over easter with Miss EB. Sort of thing she'll enjoy then she can recycle the pots for some of her flowers. I'd best get some new ones she may not like the idea of using dirty ones and I don't have than many anyway.

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She'll love it - have fun.

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Here we go....4 little loaves in plant pots!

Jigged around with the recipe a bit - part granary flour - and was pleasantly surprised that it didn't take long to make (tho' realise now that this recipe doesn't do a second knead). Bread tastes wonderful...had eaten one loaf before I realised I hadn't taken a pic!

Query tho' JG - did you mean 150 degrees (gas 2) or 450 degrees (gas 8)? Consulted a number of cookery books and did the loaves at gas 8 for 15 mins then got cold feet and turned down to gas 4 for 25 mins.

They didn't seem to suffer for it .....DELICIOUS........will be making again, especially with the single knead.

Good inspiration, JG - thank you.

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update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

HATH

Cool result - they look great.

Yes you were right to jig-up the recipe, and sorry I did mean 150 degrees and I should have said it was a single prove and didn't need kocking back.

So I hope you are a true convert to doing things by hand and not by machine. Don't you think it was easy - and less time consuming than bread machine - and you don't get woken up in the middle of the night (oh I forgot you sleep in the West Wing when the machine is on).

Did you manage to line the pots in some way?

For our part we didn't do this recipe but made. My son had a friend on a sleepover and we made yeast dough for pizzas, knocked them back, made the bases and then watched them rise incredibly in the oven.

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