Recipe | Bread
Flower Pot bread

By Lesley Van Alphen. Good. Easy. Kind of like Vogels bread. Double recipe for flower pot

1 teaspoon sugar or honey
2/3 cups boiling water
2/3 cups cold milk
(Can replace water and milk with 1 1/3 cups of warm milk)

  • Put into bowl

1/2 rounded teaspoons active yeast (orange top)

  • Sprinkle on liquid

  • Leave to froth (about 15 minutes)

1 cup white flour
1 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon bran, wheatgerm (optional)
1 tablespoon poppy seed, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds
dried fruit (optional)
nuts (optional)
raisins (optional)
1 tablespoon of cinnamon (optional)
2 tablespoons of brown sugar or honey (optional)

  • Add

  • Mix well - can’t over mix the bread

  • Kneading is optional

Flower pot

  • Cover whole with tin foil

  • Fill with dough

  • Put in oven at 70° C for about 30 minutes, or until dough has risen

  • Turn oven up to 200 for 30 minutes to bake.

  • Leave loaf in pot for about 10 minutes

To season a new flower pot, oil real well, and put in oven at 100° C for at least 1/2 hour. Do not wash pot, keep dust free.