Bread on a stick
This was one of the activities we did during lockdown. Something neither of us has done since being a kid. Its great fun for the whole family, from finding the sticks needed, making a fire and eating around the fire. We did ours using our fireplace, but sometime you need to work with what you have.
Ingredients
520g flour
120g rye flour
360g water
10g yeast
12g salt
4 1-1.5m sticks
Knifes
Method
Mix water, yeast and rye flour together.
Add in flour and knead the dough by hand for 5-10 minutes.
Put the dough in a covered bowl and let it rise until doubled for 1-2 hours or let it slow rise in the fridge for 12 hours or longer.
While the dough is rising, you can go adverturing to find some suitable sticks. The sticks needs to be long enough, so you don’t have to sit too close to the fire and not too thick nor too thin, rougly 2-3cm in diameter.
You will also need to light a fire a good time in advance so you can get it down to a embery state, making it perfect for cooking bread without buring it in the flames.
Once the dough has doubled, knead the dough and divide it into 8-10 balls.
At the fire, roll the balls into long strips and twist them around the carved part of the sticks. Roll the dough thinly around each stick, shaping it so that the dough is evenly distributed and bake the them over the embers of the fire until they are baked through and golden. They are ready when the dough does not stick to the stick and they are easy to remove.
8. Eat the breads while they are warm or fill them with a delicious filling like sausages, sauces, hummus or a homemade jam.
