About the bake
This Malted Brown bread is delicious served warm from the oven and slathered with butter. It also is the ideal bread to make a yummy Ploughman's sandwich.
Our easy-to-follow ten-step guide will help you bake this malted brown bread recipe in just 50 minutes, from prep to plate.
If you're new to bread making, check out our handy guide which details everything you need to know about baking bread.
Method
Step 1:
Put the flour, salt and yeast into a bowl.
Step 2:
Combine the water, honey and sunflower oil and add to the flour mixture.
Step 3:
Mix until you have a soft dough and then knead by hand for 10 minutes or use the dough hook on your stand mixer.
Step 4:
Turn out onto a floured surface and knead and form into a long oval. Place into a greased, 450g/1 lb loaf tin.
Step 5:
Cover with oiled clingfilm and set aside to rise for 1-2 hours or until doubled in size. The time may vary depending on the temperature of the room.
Step 6:
Preheat your oven to 220°c/200°c fan/Gas Mark 7.
Step 7:
Once your oven has reached full temperature, place your loaf in the oven and immediately reduce the heat to 200°c/180°c fan/Gas Mark 6.
Step 8:
Bake the loaf for 30 minutes.
Step 9:
When the loaf is cooked it will sound hollow when the base is tapped.
Step 10:
Leave the loaf to cool completely on a wire rack.
Ingredients
- 475g Country grain bread flour
- 1 tbsp Sunflower oil
- 280ml Warm water
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 tsp Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast Sachet
- 1 1/2 tsp Runny honey
Recipe Reviews
Made this in my ninja foodi - was delicious 😋
Tried this loaf today as a change from my usual Wholemeal loaf (which is perfect). Dough is bit sticky and as it rises it falls over on itself. Didn’t look great but tasted fantastic. What am I doing wrong?
So far so good. This has made a beautiful looking (and smelling) loaf, but I double proved it (couple of hours in a covered bowl) and it looked far too much for a 1lb loaf tin - so I used a 2lb tin and it has come out looking just right. Not tasted yet, too hot!
Easy recipe with excellent end result, would definitely recommend
Nice easy to follow recipe which produces lovely tasty bread. I’ve used this recipe lots of times with good results and have modified it from time to time adding different ingredients to produce additional flavours. I’ve presently got beer and chilli rolls baking in the oven for lovely tasty burgers with a kick for our tea.
I’ve made lots of bread from bakingmad.com and this is one of my best although its a little bit wet to knead by hand the result is still amazing, I’ve even made bread rolls from this recipe and they are very nice. Whatever bread I make from this site is eaten up the same day.
Ingredients
- 475g Country grain bread flour
- 1 tbsp Sunflower oil
- 280ml Warm water
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 tsp Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast Sachet
- 1 1/2 tsp Runny honey