bread for Farmhouse Breakfast Week

This is last year's wheat crop, which was green last January, almost ready to harvest in July, combined in August and then stored in the barn. 

Most of the wheat was sent to a central co-operative store where it is sold on for food production. We use some of the wheat as seed for the next crop that is now growing in the fields and I take a very small amount to use throughout the year.

So that we can have toast and marmalade for breakfast during Farmhouse Breakfast Week, I've been using wheat from last year's  harvest to make some bread.

First the wheat is put into the grain mill, which grinds it into flour and then the dough is made, left to prove and shaped into loaves.

The loaves are then baked in the oven and we'll eat the fresh bread with rabbit rillettes and then toast the rest for breakfast.
There are more ideas for farmhouse breakfast week at Life In Mud Spattered Boots.

Farmhouse Breakfast Week

It's Farmhouse Breakfast Week. There's lots of information about it on the HGCA Shake Up Your Wake Up  website with breakfast ideas, nutritional advice and challenges. While you're shopping for breakfast, remember to look out for the Red Tractor logo because all Red Tractor labelled products can be traced back to the farms, which are committed to assuring food to high standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection and the Union flag tells you that the product has been farmed and packed in the UK. During Farmhouse Breakfast Week, we're trying to have a different breakfast each day instead of the same old boring thing every day.