Videos on how to make bread
Virtuous Bread has lots of bread making videos because videos are a great way to learn. Our videos show you ways to proof dry yeast, knead dough, and shape dough - baguettes, loose balls, tight balls (cobs), loose sausages, tight sausages, and buns....all the basic shapes you need to get going. It's all in the kneading and the shaping! Many of the videos are intended as teaching aids to go along with the book All You Knead Is Bread, published in October 2012.
Remember - there are plenty of ways to do anything and these videos give you just a sample of the countless ways to make bread.
How to Proof Dry Yeast
One way of kneading dough by hand - it's all in the stretching
One way of shaping dough for that perfect "sandwich loaf"
How do I know when the bread is done?
How to shape baguettes
How to mix in scalded flour
Baking with scalded flour - close up of mixing it in from Virtuous Bread on Vimeo. This is a teaching aid that goes along with the book, All You Knead Is Bread.
How to knead in scalded flour
How to do the stretch and fold, shape a loose ball and shape a tight ball (in other words, a cob!)
How to shape buns for a perfectly light and round bun
How to shape a braided (plaited) loaf like a challah
How to shape twists for grissini, simit, or cardomom knots
How to shape a loose and a tight sausage
Why not take a bread class? It is great to learn how to make bread with others and Virtuous Bread offers bread courses in London and all over the UK. Go to the Bread Angels site and the post code finder will help you find the location and course for you.