City Bread

This bread worked up nicely; it rose a lot faster than the recipe suggested, but the I only use bread machine yeast and that was probably a big factor. I added some of the suggested ingredients on page 122: chopped onion, sunflower seeds and cumin seeds. It made for a nice robust bread that went nicely with the chickpea soup. I found it hard to knead in all of those ingredients after adding the four and in future would add addition ingredients when the dough was soft. I added an entire very large chopped onion, so cooked the loaves until they were quite browned, so the onion would be cooked through, it was a bit of an excessive amount of onion. The two tablespoons of cumin seed and one half cup of sunflower seeds worked well.