World Bread Day 2009: Stout, Oat and Honey Knots

Today we celebrate World Bread Day, a global celebration of, well, BREAD. Bloggers all over the world are baking bread and posting about it today. This is my second year participating. Last year I baked Anadama Bread (to see the round up of all the breads baked last year go HERE). I was a baby baker (I still am, but probably more of a toddler now).

This year the bread I baked–Stout, Oat & Honey Knots— is a truly global creation. The recipe comes from Dan Lepard, a British artisan professional bread baker. In order to bake this bread I had to convert oven temperatures from Celsius to Fahrenheit, figure out what a sachet of yeast is (It’s 7 grams), and remember that strong white flour means bread flour.

The knots are made with toasted oats & a bread flour/whole wheat flour mix. Instead of water, stout is used for hydration. I used Stockyard Oatmeal Stout from Trader Joes. Honey provides a bit of sweetness and butter a bit of richness. I really liked these rolls. The stout flavor was strong (which I liked) and paired really well with cheddar/sage scrambled eggs. The crumb was smooth and almost creamy.

The idea to bake this bread came from my blogging friend Nancy of The Dogs Eat the Crumbs and Corner Loaf . I baked the bread with Nancy (who lives across the country in Atlanta, GA) via Twitter. It was so fun. I often read about these bake-alongs on Twitter, but can’t participate because of work or other obligations. I look forward to doing it again soon!

You can find the recipe for the Stout, Oat and Honey Knots HERE.

26 thoughts on “World Bread Day 2009: Stout, Oat and Honey Knots”

They look wonderful! I am a big fan of Dan Lepard too. Great looking knots. Happy World Bread Day!

Those look incredibly tasty and beautiful. You have such a way!

I have yet to bake my own bread. I’ll buck up and do it one day, I promise 🙂

Wonderful looking bread. Do I spy raisins?

Fabulous looking bread. If only I’d have known about World Bread Day. I’d have joined in as I love making breads!

Twitter bake along- so cool! Nice knots too!

Toasted oats in bread sounds so delicious! Your knots turned out beautiful.

I love bread in the shape of knots and yours sound tasty!

We love these knots, and yours look exceptionally tasty, especially with cheddar/sage scrambled eggs! I’ll be making those soon, for sure. Enjoyed our Tweetalong baking session. You pick the recipe next time!

Made them for BBD#2, great recipe, isn’t it? Yours look very tasty!

mmmm, these look delicious. happy bread day!

Ciao ! What a lovely recipe ! I would love to twittely bake with you but maybe I would be sleeping !!

Do I spy an egg “sandwich” in the background? Yummy!

Twitter bake-alongs sound like so much fun.

And that bread looks even better.

I love stout beer. I love bread. I love this post!

Your bread looks so lovely,…MMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

I love this recipe, I’ve made it several times, the breads are delicious. The first time I made it I used dark stout and the color and shape of the breads were quite suspicious… they looked a bit like… let’s say… poop? My kids thoroughly enjoyed the breads, they couldn’t stop laughing 🙂

I am so bummed I missed World Bread Day. Somehow I totally didn’t even know about it. Oh well, next year, right? Your knots look terrific – I have to try this recipe for Shane. He loves stout.

What beautiful knots AND they sound delicious! I can’t believe I missed World Bread Day.

The knots looks perfect and I love the scrambled eggs on the bread knot in back. You did such a wonderful job on this bread, just delicious looking!

That bread looks incredible!!! I love the egg sandwich!! YUM!!

Nice job Wendy. They are really beautiful little knots….he he Seriously delicious and glad you liked them. Sounds like you all had quite an adventure. That’s so neat.
AmyRuth