Best. Bread. Ever.

I've been keeping up with my bread making efforts. Apart from some hiccups a while back where I was using blackstrap molasses, which did not provide enough sugar to sufficiently activate the yeast, it has been going well. But the very best loaf to date was the one I made yesterday.

Here is the recipe:

Fig and fennel seed bread

In the order as written, place the following ingredients in the bread machine:
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp salt
1 Tbs olive oil
1 tsp fennel seeds
2.5 cups flour (I used 1.75 cups white bread flour; 0.25 cups millet flour and 0.5 cups of wholewheat flour)
1.5 tsp yeast
1 Tbs brown sugar

With the dough setting, begin the cycle, then when the machine beeps to let you know to add extra ingredients, add:
1 tsp yeast
4 chopped dried figs

Once the dough is formed, turn it out in a pan covered with parchment paper. Bake at 450F for 6 mins, then at 400F until done (for me this was after a further 28 mins).

Enjoy!