How to make tiger bread
Tiger bread is known for it's beautiful golden mottled crust and tasty smell. We've improved our recipe so that the crust is extra tiger-ry. Follow our recipe step by step to have your whole house smelling of freshly baked warm bread in a few hours.
Get the butter out, you're going to want to eat a slice as soon as it's baked. Fancy making your own jam to spread on the top? Try our Strawberry Jam recipe. Delicious.
Or for something a little different, give our pizza dough a go!
Method
Step 1:
MIX
Mix the flour, yeast, sugar and salt in a big bowl. Using your fingertips rub in the butter until only fine ‘crumbs’ are left. Mix in the water with a cutlery knife.Step 2:
KNEAD
Tip onto a lightly flour dusted surface and knead for 10 minutes (or use the dough hook attachment on your mixer).Step 3:
RISE
Lightly grease the mixing bowl with some oil. Put the dough back in, cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave to rise until doubled in size.Step 4:
SHAPE
Knock back the dough by gently kneading just 5 times to get the air out. Shape into a smooth oval and sit on a floured baking sheet.Step 5:
PROVE Cover the dough again with a clean tea towel and leave to prove until doubled in size again. Preheat your oven to 200°C (fan 180°C, gas mark 6). Whisk all of the topping ingredients together until smooth. Leave this to rest for 10 minutes.
Step 6:
BAKE
Spread the paste all over the top and sides of your loaf – use a palette knife or your hands. Bake for 35 minutes, until it’s golden brown and crackled and when you tap the base it sounds hollow. Cool on a wire rack.
Ingredients
For the Dough
- 500g Allinson's Strong White Bread Flour
- 1 sachet Allinson's Easy Bake yeast or Allinson's Time Saver Yeast
- 1.5 tsp Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Butter (softened)
- 300ml Warm water
- 500g Allinson's Strong White Bread Flour
For the Topping
- 3.5g Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast
- 0.5 tsp Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 0.5 tbsp Sesame seed oil
- 1pinch Salt
- 75g Ground rice
- 90ml Warm water
- 3.5g Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast
Recipe Reviews
I really enjoyed making this loaf. The results were so professional too! I thinks it’s important to use sesame seed oil as it really makes it tasty. One of the tips I’d picked up from reviews was to add a teaspoon of marmite to the topping. I am pleased I did this as it added extra flavour but it was not obvious that it tasted of marmite. Thank you.
Tastes great, as good as supermarket, the underlying bread is really soft and light. A great alternative to sourdough with a lot less prep needed.
Have made this twice now, first as directed but second time I baked it in a loaf tin. Turned out lovely each time but the topping crumbles off when cutting, any suggestions how to avoid this would be appreciated
have made this loaf three times now it is almost perfect i have modified it slightly by using 475grams of white flour and 50 grams light malt house flour and a extra half a tsp of sugar all other ingredients as per recipe knead for 12min with doe hook if kneading by hand use 450 grams of white flour and 25grams for dusting when kneading
I love making bread, to cheat a little, I let the butter slowly melt in the 300ml of water. It saves the fiddly job of rubbing the butter into the flour. It turns out just fine.
The bread as always is perfect, but my paste was a lot thinner then what it looked in the video! I did add a little more rice flour to thicken it up. The final product was very nice for my first attempt. I will be baking it again or so the wife tells me.
Ingredients
For the Dough
- 500g Allinson's Strong White Bread Flour
- 1 sachet Allinson's Easy Bake yeast or Allinson's Time Saver Yeast
- 1.5 tsp Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Butter (softened)
- 300ml Warm water
- 500g Allinson's Strong White Bread Flour
For the Topping
- 3.5g Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast
- 0.5 tsp Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 0.5 tbsp Sesame seed oil
- 1pinch Salt
- 75g Ground rice
- 90ml Warm water
- 3.5g Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast