Flapjack Bread!

This afternoon I experimented with some soda bread, adding oats and golden syrup to a normal soda bread recipe!

This is the result, and I shall call it Flapjack Bread! It has quite a sweet flavour (big shock, I know) but it's very nice.

If you're interested:

250 grams of flour (I use a 50:50 split of white and wholemeal)

2 teaspoons of baking soda

5 grams of salt

150 ml of milk

Some porridge oats (didn't measure them - I'd guess about 50 grams)

2-3 tablespoons of golden syrup

Mix it all together into a very claggy dough, keep mushing it together (or 'kneading' if you want to sound proper, like) for a couple of minutes to make sure it's all properly combined

Give it a dusting of flour and slash the top, then bake at 200 degrees celcius for 20-25 minutes.

Leave to cool for a few minutes...enjoy!

Note for non-UK types pondering about what the hell a flapjack is - this is what I'm referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjack_(oat_bar)

Bacon and Cheese Bread

A few days back I posted a pic on Twitter of some bread I'd made, cheese and bacon bread to be exact.

I ate a whole one of these in a single day

Somewhat unexpectedly, it got a fairly hefty response from people saying it looked delicious - cue much swelling of egos and puffing out of chests.
For the record, it was really nice!
Anyway, since people seemed very keen on the idea of bread with bacon in it (cos we all know that bacon makes everything better), I thought I'd post up the recipe I used.
This is taken from Paul Hollywood's book, How To Bake (that's a link to the American Kindle edition on Amazon, doesn't seem to be available in hardcover there yet. Here's a link to the British hardcover version).  If you don't know, Paul Hollywood is one of the judges on the BBC show The Great British Bake Off, a favourite show of mine.
If you like bread and fancy trying your hand at making all sorts of different types then this is an excellent book to go with - it's got everything from basic loaves to exotic sounding flavours, sweet and savoury. I recommend it!
But if you can't get hold of the book and you've just got that urge for cheese and bacon bread (and who could blame you), the recipe's below!