"pan mess kit bread" with nettle seeds

[WildHog]

This summer I tried to bake bread in my pan mess kit. I "pimped" the dough with seeds of stinging nettle.


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I collected the seeds with the small branches in the pan:


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Then they where roasted carefully over the alcohol stove without any fat.


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Thats the result from 20 minutes collecting:


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I made a dough out of wheat flour, dry yeast and salt:


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For rising up I done the closed pan next to a fire for about an hour:


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After that, I have done the pan on hot ash and covered it with some ember. I baked it for about a three-fourths hour:


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The "dent" in the plate of the messkit isnt suited for baking ^^ but you can scrape of the black surface:


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thats the result:


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the nettle seeds are very tasty and gives a nuttily flavour to the bread.

cheers
Stefan

 

[Elen Sentier]

Looks delicious ... shall borrow your recipe and have a go

 

[Man of Tanith]

interesting. hadn't thought of adding nettle seed.
like the pan mess kit where's it from?

 

[WildHog]

like the pan mess kit where's it from?

I bought it in an army store a longer time ago

 

[birchwood]

That looks very tasty. I will also try the seeds.

 

[Ed Edwards]

Looks great! I'll be trying this out.

Cheers

Ed

 

[xylaria]

toasted nettle seed taste really nice added to stuff. They are really good for you as well, and they are an aphrodisiac. i dont think I have tried them in bread but I have in pakora and as a topping. Looks lovely.

 

[Harvestman]

Lovely. Better than any camp bread I've ever made.

 

[swotty]

interesting. hadn't thought of adding nettle seed.
like the pan mess kit where's it from?

I think it's a U.S. Army one?

Here you go.... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/U-S-Army-...War-M1942-Type-A-120-/360335411135#vi-content