Guinness Treacle Bread with Pickled Cucumber
Easy
Chef Shane Smith’s Guinness treacle bread with pickled cucumber is perfect for a savoury Afternoon Tea. This is the ultimate modern twist on a classic cucumber sandwich and it might just be my new favourite combination. Sponsored by Kenwood
PREP IN
20 MIN
COOK IN
50 MIN
SERVE
20
Guinness Treacle Bread with Pickled Cucumber
Easy
PREP IN
20 MIN
COOK IN
50 MIN
SERVE
20
Introduction
Chef Shane Smith’s Guinness treacle bread with pickled cucumber is perfect for a savoury Afternoon Tea. This is the ultimate modern twist on a classic cucumber sandwich and it might just be my new favourite combination. Sponsored by Kenwood
Ingredients
- 250g wholemeal flour
- 60g plain flour
- 1 tsp bread soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 100g treacle
- 60g porridge oats
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 30g butter
- 100ml Guinness
- 200ml milk
- 1 tbsp porridge to sprinkle on top
- 1 cucumber
- 1 tsp salt
- 1.5 tsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
- chopped dill
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- Edible flowers for garnish
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Method
- 1. For the Guinness bread, preheat your oven to 180°C/160°C fan. Grease and dust a 2lb loaf tin and set aside.
- 2. In a small bowl, add the butter and treacle and melt in the microwave and set aside to cool slightly.
- 3. In the bowl of your Kenwood mixer fitted with the K-Beater, add the wet ingredients first followed by the dry and mix until combined.
- 4. Spoon into the prepared tin, sprinkle some porridge oats on top and pop into the oven for 50mins.
- 5. Once baked, carefully remove from the tin and pop on a wire rack to cool.
- 6. For the pickled cucumber, cut in half lengthways and remove the seeds from the centre.
- 7. Using a peeler, peel ribbons of cucumber into a bowl and sprinkle on the salt and set aside for 20 minutes then pour off any excess liquid and add the remaining ingredients and allow to sit for 5 minutes.
- 8. To serve, slice the cooled Guinness bread, you can spread on butter if you wish, top with the pickled cucumber and edible flowers.
