If you'd been following the Brown Bread Baking Competition at the National Ploughing Championships this year, you've probably been craving some homemade bread.
Whether it's a humble soda loaf or a melt-in-your-mouth brioche, homemade bread is one of life's simplest pleasures, but can be intimidating for a new baker.
Here, we've up our favourite bread recipes that anyone can tackle.

Brown soda bread with stout and treacle

Mark Moriarty's brown sugar brioche

Mary Berry's Nordic seed and nut loaf


Shane Smith's Irish soda bread


Rory O'Connell's bastible bread


