Here’s a recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery ‘Home Sweet Home’ book which I made at my Mum’s request. It has a Chelsea Bun / Bread & Butter Pudding feel to it
What you need:
For the dough
300ml lukewarm whole milk
25g caster sugar
1 1/2 tsp dried active yeast
500g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
1 tsp salt
85g unsalted butter, cubed
For the filling
60g unsalted butter, softened
100g soft light brown sugar
200g blueberries
1 large egg, beaten
What you do:
- Grease the loaf tin and dust with flour
- In a jug, mix the milk, caster sugar and yeast. Stir well and set aside until it becomes frothy – mine didn’t froth 😦
- In a large bowl, sift together the flour and salt. Rub in the butter into the dry ingredients to form a crumb like consistency
- Make a well in the centre and pour in the milk mixture. Use a spoon to mix to form a dough
- Turn out onto a floured surface and knead well. Place back in bowl, cover with cling film and leave in a warm place to rise for approx. 45 minutes or until doubled – mine didn’t double, in fact it didn’t look any different in any way!
- Once proved, knock back, and roll out to approx. 30 x 38cm then cut lengthways into 4 equal strips – the equal strips bit is quite important because you need to stack them
- Spread butter over the strips, sprinkle 50g of the brown sugar over, then scatter the blueberries on too, gently pressing into the dough
- Stack the strips neatly on top of one another
- Cut into 6 equal stacks, then put them into the loaf tin, cut side facing up. Place each stack next to each other to fill the tin
- Use up any extra blueberries or gather up the ones that have fallen out, press into the dough
- Wrap the tin in cling film and allow to rise again – approx. 30-40 minutesLift the strips and stack them neatly on top of each other
- Preheat oven to 170°c
- Brush the top with the beaten egg and sprinkle over the remaining sugar
- Bake for approx. 30-35 minutes – mine actually took closer to 45 minutes
- Allow to cool but this is nicer served warm with a splash of cream
Until next time…Happy Baking!
Wow! That looks really labour-intensive… although that could just be because I’m a really lazy baker – haha! It looks lovely.
I was thinking of trying blueberry muffins this week because my husband came back from the supermarket the other day with some bargain blueberries. Not sure if I’ll manage it before the toddler scoffs them all though 🙂
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It was, I’m a lazy baker too. I much prefer easier bakes and stuff which doesn’t involve proving because it never goes right for me 🙂
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It looks ok even though it didn’t froth or rise … and I bet it tasted fabulous.
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It was very nice Shaz, just disappointing that I didn’t get a bit more rise 🙂
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This just made me want to bake… mind you, it’s 9:30pm currently lol
This looks delicious. I love all things blueberry 🙂
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Thank you; it’s not a quick bake so probably not best for a late night snack 😉
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