Orange, Lemon and Cherry Bread
Toasted with butter – perfect.
Ingredients
- 500 g strong white flour plus extra for dusting
- 10 g salt
- 30 g caster sugar
- 40 g butter softened
- 20 g yeast
- 1 lemon zest of it
- 3 oranges zest of it
- 300 ml water
- 75 g morello cherries
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients except the cherries into a bowl and mix to a dough.
- Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 minutes, then put the dough back into the bowl and leave to rest for 1 hour.
- Line a baking tray.
- Add the cherries to the dough and mix well, then divide the dough into two pieces and roll each out to about 30.
- 5 cm/12 inches long.
- Twist the two pieces together and place on the baking tray, then leave to rise for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
- Bake the bread for 25 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.