Ballymaloe brown bread

Ballymaloe brown bread was The Ballymaloe House Hotel's version of Doris Grant's no-knead bread, introduced in her book "Your Daily Bread".

I've found that with all brown or wholemeal flour bread recipes, half a vitamin C tablet (ascorbic acid) crushed between two tablespoons (about 100 mg) and added to the flour, seems to prevent a heavy, poorly risen loaf. It has an effect on Glutathione (Wikipedia) which has an affect on the the elasticity of the dough.

It has a bitter-sweet toffee flavour, almost like a sweet malt bread.

This is my version which has additional rye flour and is adapted to suit a bread making machine.

Use menu 08 French bake (6 hour) on Panasonic SD-ZB2502 automatic breadmaker)

Ballymaloe brown bread

Not a perfect rise, but delicious!
Servings:	Serves 10 - Make 1 large loaf
Calories per serving:	187
Ready in:	6 hours
Prep. time:	4 hours, 30 minutes
Cook time:	1 hour, 30 minutes
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	Chef
First published:	25th December 2012

Best recipe review Nutty 5/5 This had a lovely nutty flavour and a good texture. Paul R Smith

Ingredients

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• 2.5 teaspoons dried active yeast.
• 1 vitamin C tablet, crushed to a powder.
• 430 g very strong wholemeal flour.
• 70 g wholegrain rye flour.
• 3.5 teaspoons black treacle or molasses.
• 2 teaspoons salt.
• 400 ml water - or by weight instead of volume, 400 g water.

Method

1. Place all of the ingredients in the bread maker in the above order.
2. Panasonic SD-253/4/5 bread maker.
3. Set to gluten free bake (2 hours)
4. Remove as soon as baked and cool on a wire rack.

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  Ballymaloe brown bread

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  Ballymaloe brown bread - using the French setting and recipe

French setting and recipe

JuliaBalbilla experimented with this recipe and made a very successful Ballymaloe Brown Bread loaf using the following recipe and French Bake setting on her Panasonic SD-255.

Ingredients

• 3.5 teaspoons dried active yeast
• 1 crushed 250 g vitamin C tablet
• 425 g wholemeal flour
• 75 g wholegrain rye flour
• 1 teaspoon of molasses
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• 400 ml water

Method

1. Place all of the ingredients in the bread maker in the above order.
2. Panasonic SD-253/4/5 bread maker.
3. Set to French Bake (6 hours)
4. Use menu 08 French bake (6 hour) on Panasonic SD-ZB2502 automatic breadmaker
5. Remove as soon as baked and cool on a wire rack.

Notes

If you don't have a gluten free bake setting, look for a fairly short knead and rest time with a long bake time. I found with other settings, the bread would rise extremely well, but after being knocked down (by the breadmaker), it never managed to rise again properly. The failures make brilliant breadcrumbs though!

See also

• We have a number of brown and wholemeal bread recipes for especially for a bread making machines:
• Basic brown loaf
• Small wholemeal loaf
• Wholemeal loaf (20%) wholemeal flour 80% white flour
• Wholemeal loaf (50%) wholemeal flour 50% white flour
• Wholemeal loaf (75%) wholemeal flour 25% white flour
• Wholemeal loaf (100%) wholemeal flour
• Seeded wholemeal bread
• Rye and spelt bread
• Ballymaloe brown bread

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