Savoury Damper/Bread

Ingredients:

• 3 cups white or wholemeal Self Raising Flour
• 2 tsp Lowans instant dried yeast
• 380 ml luke warm water
• handful of grated cheese for top of loaf
• spray oil

Additional ingredients - dependant on what type of damper you want to make...

• Mixed herbs
• Dried garlic
• Dried onions
• Bacon bits
• Sun-dried tomato pesto
• Grated cheese
• Pitted olives finely chopped
• Sun dried tomatoes finely chopped
• Fresh onion and/or garlic finely chopped
• Linseed seeds
• Sunflower seeds
• Poppy seeds

Method:

1. Using a standard size loaf tin, spray oli around the inside of loaf tin, then set aside.
2. Sieve flour into a large bowl. Add yeast and add any ot the additional ingredients (i.e. mixed herbs, bacon bits, chopped olives etc.) Add the water and mix all together.
3. Tip mixture into the loaf tin - it will rise quite a lot, especially in middle - so try to make mixture flat or even concaved at centre.
4. Sprinkle top of loaf with grated cheese.
5. Cover whole thing with a clean tea-towel and put aside in a warm spot for about 15 minutes, whilst the oven heats up...
6. Heat oven to 190 degrees C, then insert loaf tin and cook for 30 minutes.

Tips:

• Loaf can be eaten hot or cold. If you wish to freeze it: wait until the loaf is cold then slice before freezing - it is then easy to take out 1 or 2 slices as needed at a later date.