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What you need:

  • 350g/12oz Odlums Coarse Wholemeal Flour
  • 125g/4oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Odlums Bread Soda
  • 125g/4oz Shamrock Diced Apricots
  • 50g/2oz Dried Cranberries
  • 50g/2oz Sesame Seeds
  • 300ml/½pt Milk
  • 125g tub Natural Yoghurt
  • 1 tablespoon Sunflower Oil
  • 1 Egg (beaten)

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 190°C/350°F/Gas 4. Lightly grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
  2. Place the wholemeal and cream flour in a large mixing bowl. Sieve in the bread soda and mix well together.
  3. Stir in the apricots, cranberries and sesame seeds.
  4. Beat the milk, yoghurt, oil and egg together and add to the dry ingredients. Mix well to combine. 
  5. Transfer to prepared tin, smooth top with back of spoon and lightly dust with flour.
  6. Make a deep cut lengthways down the centre of the loaf.
  7. Bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour until risen and golden brown. Bread is baked when tapped underneath and has a hollow sound.
  8. Wrap in clean tea towel until cool.

Healthy Loaf

CATEGORY: Weekly Recipe
COOK TIME: 1 hour
healthy loaf

What you need:

  • 350g/12oz Odlums Coarse Wholemeal Flour
  • 125g/4oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Odlums Bread Soda
  • 125g/4oz Shamrock Diced Apricots
  • 50g/2oz Dried Cranberries
  • 50g/2oz Sesame Seeds
  • 300ml/½pt Milk
  • 125g tub Natural Yoghurt
  • 1 tablespoon Sunflower Oil
  • 1 Egg (beaten)

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 190°C/350°F/Gas 4. Lightly grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
  2. Place the wholemeal and cream flour in a large mixing bowl. Sieve in the bread soda and mix well together.
  3. Stir in the apricots, cranberries and sesame seeds.
  4. Beat the milk, yoghurt, oil and egg together and add to the dry ingredients. Mix well to combine. 
  5. Transfer to prepared tin, smooth top with back of spoon and lightly dust with flour.
  6. Make a deep cut lengthways down the centre of the loaf.
  7. Bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour until risen and golden brown. Bread is baked when tapped underneath and has a hollow sound.
  8. Wrap in clean tea towel until cool.

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