Grant Loaf Bread

A Grant loaf is a no knead wholemeal bread, invented by Doris Grant to encourage people to eat healthy bread. It is unusual to produce yeast bread without any kneading and to produce three of these loaves required 3 lb of stone ground whole wheat flour, 2 pints of water, 2 teaspoons of salt, 3 teaspoons of Barbados sugar and 3 teaspoon dried yeast. This is unquestionably the easiest bread I have ever made.

Ingredients make 1 loaf

400 ml lukewarm water

2 tsp brown sugar or1 tbls honey

1 tsp yeast

450g strong wholemeal flour or Spelt

2 tsp salt

Method

Place water, sugar and yeast in a bowl. Mix and leave for 5 minutes. Add flour and salt and mix until well combined. Place mixture in a greased bread tin and cover. Allow proofing for approx. 60 minutes until dough nearly reach the top of the tin. Preheat oven to 200°C. Bake the bread in the oven for approx. 40 minutes. Remove bread from tin and place on a wire. Allow cooling for at least 30 minutes before cutting.

Note: If you want crispier bread, remove the bread from the tin and bake another 5 minutes.