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Looks nice, can't say I'd missed brioche as I hardly ever had it anyway, but now I quite fancy some :p

I think the baking powder in that recipe may be to replace an egg which is in traditional Welshcakes. I would imagine you could do it without if you prefer - as you say they just wouldn't rise, but...

You could try making Welsh cakes, which aren't exactly cookies but are quite nice

http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/recipes/welshcakes.html

That's proof of success!

They look very interesting BS - hope you didn't suffer any after-effects? ;) What's your next project?

Making bread isn't really very hard, so let's hope you're pleasantly surprised. I usually use a mixture of half wholemeal (spelt) and half white (wheat) flour as a completely wholemeal loaf tends to...

Re how long it keeps, I make a medium size loaf (probably about 500g) and put half in the freezer and the other half in a sealed bag in the fridge. The fridge half keeps for several days, no problem....

Thank you, khadagan - I don't think I'd persevere with regular breadmaking without a machine (have tried it before and didn't - might be better if I had a three-year-old human mixer ;) )

But I'll...

How do you make the olive bread, khadagan, please?

Just calculated that I have been regularly making my own bread (in a bread machine) for over 3 years! Must be the longest time I've done...

Oh yes, I missed the bit about the omega 6 in soya oil. Back to the drawing board then!

There is apparently a school of thought that says coconut and palm oils are OK after all because the studies...

I used to use sunflower oil but apparently vegetarians and vegans should avoid overdoing it because it's got omega 6 fatty acids in it and that can interfere with assimilation of omega 3 EFAs (which...

Cedarblue - There seems to be a lot of conflicting advice about this around, but I have read that (allergies permitting, obviously) groundnut/peanut oil is quite good for baking and frying because it...

I think canola oil (which is called "rapeseed oil" in the UK) is meant to be OK trans fat wise as are other liquid oils
(http://www.ific.org/publications/qa/transqa.cfm). If things contain...

As I understand it it's the process of hydrogenation that creates the trans fats, and so if you bake with unhydrogenated oils you won't end up with trans fats. (Not sure whether this means you won't...