Bread

I have been making a lot of bread recently so thought I would post my fav bread recipe.

You will need:

200g strong wholemeal flower

300g strong white flower

1 pack of dried yeast

0.5 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of butter (salted or unsalted)

300ml of warm/hot water

Mix the dry ingredients together, add about 2oo ml of the water and mix. Put in kitchenaid with dough hook and add water slowly to a dough, add the butter (make sure you still have a bit of water left to add just in case the butter is enough moisture). Keep in kitchenaid mixing for about 5 mins. Then place in oiled bowl, making sure that the dough is covered with oil and then cover with cling film and leave for about 1-2 hours in a warm place. For me 1.5 hours is usually perfect. After that, knead the dough in to the shape you want and place on baking tray, cover with a clean tea towel and rest for another 30mins – then after that shove in the oven about 190c for about 35 mins. To test it is read, knock in on the underside and it should sound hollow.

The hardest part is then waiting for it to cool down! I have some in the oven now and I’ll post a pic if it turns out ok…

Itunes not updating Artist to Ipod

Came across this problem when my b/f gave me an Ipod last week. The artist showing correctly on itunes was not showing at all on the ipod when you went into the “Artist” menu, and you could only find the artist when looking through the “Album” menu. Frustrating – and concerning that you might miss your music when flipping through artist when deciding what to listen to! In particular this was happening to my Gwen Stefani album (not sure why I am telling you that particular detail!).

I looked this up on the net and got some advice to update (in bulk) the artist name to itunes. For me this didn’t work as the artist was already correct in itunes. In the end the ever clever b/f went through menus on the ipod and realised that some albums were categorised “Compilation” for some reason (it may be because they co-wrote the album?).

ANYWAY – I highlighted the artists concerned in itunes and went to “Get info” – I then went to bottom right of info box and checked “NO” under compilation and then synced my ipod. Problem solved!

Let me know if this has happened for you and if this helps at all!

S