Perfect to use up your store cupboard ingredients, malt bread will see you through from morning to afternoon.
If you've yet to do the weekly shop and are looking for a great recipe that can be made with just store cupboard ingredients, then this is the one for you. This slightly sweet bread is perfect with slathering of butter and a cup of tea in the morning, or with coffee in the afternoon.
Malt bread is made using golden syrup and has a subtle malty flavour, a taste that's commonly associated with some of our much-loved treats like Maltesers.
This recipe for malt bread is quick and easy to make and is great served with either sweet or savoury toppings. You could also add a range of your favourite dried fruit, such as raisins to give it an extra gooey and fruity taste.
Ingredients
- 480g plain flour
- Pinch of salt
- 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1tspn baking powder
- 4tbsp malt drink powder
- 275ml milk
- 2tbsp golden syrup
WEIGHT CONVERTER
Method
- Preheat oven to 170°C/325°F/Gas Mark 3.
- Grease a 2lb loaf tin.
- Sift all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Add the milk and Golden Syrup and mix until just combined.
- Roll into the loaf tin and bake for 1 hour 15 mins.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 mins, before transferring to a wire rack to cool fully.
Top Tip for making Malt bread
This bread is great served warm with chocolate spread
Grace Walsh is a health and wellbeing writer, working across the subjects of family, relationships, and LGBT topics, as well as sleep and mental health. A digital journalist with over six years experience as a writer and editor for UK publications, Grace is currently Health Editor for womanandhome.com and has also worked with Cosmopolitan, Red, The i Paper, GoodtoKnow, and more. After graduating from the University of Warwick, she started her career writing about the complexities of sex and relationships, before combining personal hobbies with professional and writing about fitness.
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