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Malted seeded bread
Two soft, savoury-sweet wheat loaves with malted flour, mixed seeds, butter and honey.
Shipton Mill’s recipe specifies 500 g of its “Malted Flour” and no separate malt powder. Its related light malthouse flour is a blend containing wheat flour, malted wheat flakes and malted barley flour. The exact recipe flour’s composition and enzyme activity are not stated.
Active diastatic malt powder is a separate ingredient whose enzymes can speed yeast activity. Adding it would change this formula and may alter the rise. Use a malted bread flour without an extra diastatic-malt addition.
The archive describes malted wheat and seeded loaves as an everyday British bread for toast and sandwiches. Shipton Mill’s formula uses mixed seeds, honey and butter and gives two medium loaves. The source allows tins or a free-form shape; this adaptation uses two tins for a manageable shape.
The mill’s site history dates a mill at its site to 1086, but that does not establish the age or origin of this bread.
The inspected sources document a contemporary miller’s recipe and describe malted seeded bread as a British everyday loaf. They do not date the bread family’s first appearance.
Yield 2 medium loaves, about 540 g each · Scaling: source batch only
Uncooked flour may carry pathogens; raw dough should not be tasted or eaten.
Hazard sourceBake the dough as directed before eating. Wash hands, utensils, bowls and work surfaces after handling raw flour or dough.
Control sourceDo not taste the raw dough. Pour boiling water into the hot steam tray carefully and keep clear of rising steam.
A British miller publishes this formula. This is recipe context, not a claim of origin.
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Shipton MillInspiration
Malted Seeded BreadIngredient weights, yield, mixing, proofing, shaping, oven setting, steam, baking and cooling.
Shipton MillIngredient
Organic Light Malthouse Flour (301)A related malthouse flour contains wheat flour, malted wheat flakes and malted barley flour; it does not establish the exact formula flour’s composition or enzyme activity.
King Arthur BakingIngredient
What’s the difference between diastatic and non-diastatic malt?Diastatic malt powder contains active enzymes that can increase yeast activity; malt products differ in function.
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionSafety
Raw Flour and DoughRaw flour can carry harmful germs; bake dough before eating and clean hands, utensils and surfaces after handling.