Northern_Lad
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Malt LoafNow, I'm already making my own, and it's quite good, though I say so myself.
My question is, how do you make it all sticky and soft? Mine's got the texture of a moist loaf of bread.
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Nick
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More.....treacle?
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judith
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Is it one of those things that gets stickier after a few days - like parkin?
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Northern_Lad
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| nickhowe wrote: | | More.....treacle? |
More would imply putting some in in the first place. I suppose it's worth a try. Now to get back the half pot of treacle given to BIL for his butties...
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Nick
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That's why I left dots... I'm not sure what you have in there.
What do you have in there?
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Northern_Lad
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| judith wrote: | | Is it one of those things that gets stickier after a few days - like parkin? |
Not mine, but it doesn't really go off either. Last week's lasted for at least 6 days with no real difference.
Now, the fruit cakes in the cupboard, that's a different matter.
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Northern_Lad
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| nickhowe wrote: | | What do you have in there? |
About 500g of malt flour
about 2 tbsp of caster sugar
a tea spoon of salt
lots of raisans
yeast and water.
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Nick
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Maybe treacle might help! If it gets too sweet, cut back on the sugar. I have a packet of Soreen, I'll grab a look at the ingredients.
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Nick
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They cite Glycerol, a humectant (something used to keep foodstuffs moist), and interestingly, condensed milk.
So...
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lottie
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have you tried using the malt extract stuff that is the consistency of treacle that they sell in chemists or health food stores---that's what all the recipes I've tried said to use
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Northern_Lad
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| lottie wrote: | | have you tried using the malt extract stuff that is the consistency of treacle that they sell in chemists or health food stores---that's what all the recipes I've tried said to use |
No, I've got flour that's already got the extract in it. Only one bag to go (about 3 loaved (bread sized, not Soreen)) so I might try that afterwards.
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lottie
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lottie's malt loaf recipefound one of my recipes
malted wholewheat teabread
12oz.wholewheat flour
2 level tsp baking powder
0.5tsp salt
2 oz muscovado sugar
2 oz sultanas
2 oz dates
2 roundedtablespoons malt extract
2 oz butter
quarter pint plus one tbs milk
2 beaten eggs
mix flour baking powder and salt in bowl addsugar sultanas and chopped dates gently heat malt extract and butter together until fat just melted add eggs to milk then combine with malt mixture andstir into dry ingredients turn into greased 2lb. loaf tin or 2 1lb loaf tins level tops and bake at gas 3/325F/160C/ for an hour when cool wrap in foil and keep a day before eating and the bread will be nice and moist----sorry about imperial measurements---I've had most of my books a long time but easy to convert lottie
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alison
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Alison's Malt Loaf RecipeThis is my bread machine recipe that is very moist and scrummy
Malt Loaf
1 cup water
1 tsp salt
2 tblesp sunflower oil
1 1/2 tblesp black treacle
2 tblesp malt extract
3 cups plain flour (I use bread flour)
1tsp fast yeast
1/2 cup sultanas (I use 1 cup)
Put in machine in this order and use the basic setting.
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Silas
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| alison wrote: | This is my bread machine recipe that is very moist and scrummy
Malt Loaf
1 cup water
1 tsp salt
2 tblesp sunflower oil
1 1/2 tblesp black treacle
2 tblesp malt extract
3 cups plain flour (I use bread flour)
1tsp fast yeast
1/2 cup sultanas (I use 1 cup)
Put in machine in this order and use the basic setting. |
Yep, thesame one as me - works greatI also use a fullcup of rsultanas) but don't put extra treacleor malt in - it don't work!
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alison
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  not really the same one then is it
We have a fool proof soft loaf every time
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Silas
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| alison wrote: | not really the same one then is it
We have a fool proof soft loaf every time |
Er.. Yes, exactly the same.
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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| Northern_Lad wrote: | | nickhowe wrote: | | What do you have in there? |
About 500g of malt flour
about 2 tbsp of caster sugar
a tea spoon of salt
lots of raisans
yeast and water. |
is this the Wessex Mill malt loaf flour - wondered what that was like...
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Behemoth
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This way lies Schism.
There is one malt loaf though it may come in many forms.
and there will be peace.
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Northern_Lad
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote: | | is this the Wessex Mill malt loaf flour - wondered what that was like... |
'tis indeed. It's been sat in a box in my kitchen for about 4 months, maybe more. I got spured into action by seeing a 2-for-1 offer from a 'super'market on Soreen. Very odd the way my brain works.
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alison
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| Silas wrote: | | alison wrote: | not really the same one then is it
We have a fool proof soft loaf every time |
Er.. Yes, exactly the same. |
Sorry Silas, I mis read your previous post, and thought you said without malt extract. I do beg your forgiveness. Joke is on me!
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Bugs
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote: | | is this the Wessex Mill malt loaf flour - wondered what that was like... |
The taste is awfully good and exactly what you remember as "malt loaf" (well, what I remember, I don't have some sinister insight in to other people's memories. Yet). But it does fall down on texture, being not so squidgy and chewy. In the bread machine I have improved it a bit by adding some of the fruit earlier, so it gets pulverised, and I wonder if other fruits would work too.
Haven't been able to make the malt-extract ones work yet.
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jamanda
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| alison wrote: | This is my bread machine recipe that is very moist and scrummy
Malt Loaf
1 cup water
1 tsp salt
2 tblesp sunflower oil
1 1/2 tblesp black treacle
2 tblesp malt extract
3 cups plain flour (I use bread flour)
1tsp fast yeast
1/2 cup sultanas (I use 1 cup)
Put in machine in this order and use the basic setting. |
I'm going to give this a try at the weekend. Do you put the sultanas in the main bread tin with the other ingredients? Our machine has a little flappy bit on the top for seeds, fruit etc but I don't think it would take a full cup.
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alison
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Yes, so has ours, but I chuck it all in, like Bugs said, as it squiches the fruit more, and gets the squidgy thing going
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Nick
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| Bugs wrote: | | I don't have some sinister insight in to other people's memories. Yet). |
Is this why you've been away? Perfecting your brain robbing rays?
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Fee
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Well, I thought I would try Google before looking on here for what to do with this bag of Wessex Mill Malt Loaf flour, and where do you think my searches led me?
Off to make some malt loaf, thanks NL 
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sally_in_wales
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um yum yum, I adore malt loaf, really fancy a slab now, got wasabi peas instead 
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Nell Merionwen
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| sally_in_wales wrote: | | um yum yum, I adore malt loaf, really fancy a slab now, got wasabi peas instead |
mmmmmmmm me too, do you think if we ask nicely NL will bring us some?
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RichardW
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| Fee wrote: | | Well, I thought I would try Google before looking on here for what to do with this bag of Wessex Mill Malt Loaf flour, and where do you think my searches led me? |
Ah DS's world dominance via Google searches.
Richard
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sean
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| Helen M wrote: | | sally_in_wales wrote: | | um yum yum, I adore malt loaf, really fancy a slab now, got wasabi peas instead |
mmmmmmmm me too, do you think if we ask nicely NL will bring us some? |
He posted about it in 2007, if he's got any left it's probably a bit stale.
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Nell Merionwen
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| sean wrote: | | Helen M wrote: | | sally_in_wales wrote: | | um yum yum, I adore malt loaf, really fancy a slab now, got wasabi peas instead |
mmmmmmmm me too, do you think if we ask nicely NL will bring us some? |
He posted about it in 2007, if he's got any left it's probably a bit stale. |
but surely he would make some fresh for sal and lil ol me
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