Paul Hollywood's Bread: Classic Bread

Paul Hollywood presents a series in which he reveals the secrets of breads from all over the world and shows how a loaf can be transformed into delicious dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In this first programme, Paul celebrates the history and traditional flavours of great British bread. He explains the basics of bread-making by baking a classic white bloomer, a crusty everyday bread that he transforms into the perfect portable lunch, and his colourful roasted vegetable picnic loaf. He tracks the history of British bread-making from farm to miller, brewer and finally to baker and makes his ultimate ploughman's loaf, a rye, oat and ale round. He also prepares a honey glazed, fruit-packed malt loaf and bakes his medieval-style rye and wholemeal trencher, a centrepiece flat loaf piled high with watercress salad and sliced, seared lamb leg steaks in a mustard dressing.