Tomorrow a very good friend of mine comes over to have lunch. I’m not rich enough to be able to buy luxury bread from the baker’s or supermarket, so I decided to make it myself, using my AFK bread maker. Here’s the recipe I used, I didn’t knead the berries separately so you don’t see individual berries in my bread:

Ingredients:

• 140 millilitre ( 4 3/4 fluid oz.) buttermilk
• 1 egg
• 15 gram (3 1/5 teaspoon) butter
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 75 gram ( 2.65 ounce) blueberries (fresh or frozen)
• 400 gram (14.11 ounces) flour (plain “all purpose” flour)
• 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
• 2 teaspoons of dough enhancer (I use ground vitamin C pills for it: ascorbic acid but you can leave it out if you don’t like it)
• 1 3/4 teaspoon of dried yeast

Directions:

Put the ingredients in the prescribed order in the tin and close the lid. Choose the ’sweet’ baking program and a medium (1.5 lb) loaf size. Choose ‘medium’ for crust. If you don’t want the blueberries to be crushed, you can leave them out first and wait until the machine has stopped kneading. Remove the dough from the tin and gently knead the berries in the dough. Put the dough back and close the lid. Make sure to do this in a warm kitchen, avoid draught.

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