Challenge 14: Bread - Dalek Bread

[miss_s_b]

When my daughter was tiny she always called Garlic Bread "Dalek Bread", because she was brought up in a properly Whovian household and we thought it was cute and we never bothered to correct her. These days she is a much more world weary 13, but we still have one of these, which is the perfect size for a loaf of bread...

Equipment

• One Dalek baking mould
• Two big mixing bowls (or one Kenwood Chef)
• Weighing Scales
• Oven
• Large, clean, dry, flat work surface

Ingredients

• 500g strong white bread flour
• 1 1/2 tsp Fast Action Bread Yeast
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp garlic granules
• 1 tbsp dried oregano
• 1/2 tbsp dried basil
• 1/2 tbsp dried rosemary
• A good 20 grinds of black pepper from the pepper grinder
• 360ml hand-hot milk
• Some light olive oil

Method

If you're lucky enough to have a working Kenwood Chef (or similar) throw it all in and set it going with the dough hook. For those of us whose Kenwood Chef is broken, however...

• Put all the dry ingredients in one of your mixing bowls and mix them together so they are all evenly distributed. You can use a well-washed hand for this, you'll be using your hands a LOT in this recipe.
• Pour in the milk and a little dribble of oil - no more than a tablespoon of oil - and then mix throughly with your hands till you get a (quite sticky) dough
• Oil your work surface with some more of the olive oil.
• Knead. Knead like your life depended on it. Or, if you're me, get matgb to show off his kneading prowess.
• Oil the inside of bowl #2
• Place your kneaded D'Oh in the oiled bowl, cover the bowl with clinging film, and leave it to rise until it is roughly doubled in size. This will take a couple of hours. Go have a bath or something.
• When the dough is doubled in size, oil the inside of your dalek.
• Knock back the dough on a floured surface, roughly shape it till it fits the dalek, and then carefully fit it into the mould
• Leave it to prove in the dalek
• Preheat your oven to 220^oc/gas mark 8
• Once the bread is proved and the oven is preheated, bake for about 30 minutes.
• Take it out, tip it onto a cooling rack, and leave to cool completely before cutting into it.

Your end result should look like this, and be very tasty and garlicky.