Tag: Bread & baking
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Orange & Cinnamon Swirl Brioche Recipe – Carla’s Treat
The smell of this bread when making, baking and eating is heady. It’s redolent of warm summer evenings in Morocco with spicy orange & sweet cinnamon. You’ll be hard pushed to leave it once it’s out of the oven for the crumb to mature. I think it must be mildly addictive. I came by the…
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Fermenting Revolution 1 – Bouza experiment
I’ve been going a bit wild of late. More specifically, wild fermenting. And it’s all Sandor Katz’s fault. Let me explain. I bought a Kindle version of Sandor’s book Wild Fermentation. It explains the science and practice of fermenting just about anything. Not only are fermented products tastier & healthier, they’re also a great way…
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Oatmeal Soda Bread
I had a request for a recipe this morning from Craig at WeGrowOurOwn and Alys Fowler for the recipe for my breakfast bread. It’s a really tasty, simple and quick oatmeal soda bread. The principle of soda bread is that the raising agent is bicarbonate of soda (hence the ‘soda’ in the name) which is…
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Sourdough breakfast bread with spelt, fruit , nuts and spices
This is a wonderfully moist, tasty and nutritious start for your day full of fruit, nuts & spices. It’s also a great mid-afternoon snack for when your energy levels are dipping. First thing to say is that the original idea was not mine. This recipe is a sourdough adaptation of Ed & Marieke’s yeasted muesli…
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Sourdough bread with rye and linseed
I’m lucky to have a number of truly inspirational people in my ‘internet family’. This bread happened due to the inspiration of two people: the talented & generous Joanna at Zeb Bakes & baking guru & good guy, Dan Lepard. Joanna posted some beautiful pictures of a flax (linseed) & rye loaf. As you’ll see…
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How to make sourdough bread – update
In January I posted this article on how to make sourdough bread. I was amazed at how much attention it generated. I was so pleased at how many people contacted me to say they’d started baking sourdough bread as a result. You’ll see by the button on the right that I’m now a member of…
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Book Review – Knead to Know, the Real Bread Campaign
This well designed book is subtitled, ‘The introductory guide to success in baking Real Bread for your local community’. How well does it fulfill its remit? How far along the line from interested or amateur baker to community purveyor of Real Bread can ‘Knead to Know’ take you? In my view, The Real Bread Campaign…
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French baguette – high hydration bread
I’ve been keen to make ‘proper’ french baguettes for years now. At last I’ve found recipes and techniques that work. There’s still room for improvement as I’m learning as I go. All ‘high hydration’ means is that there’s relatively more water in the dough than a lower hydration dough: ‘wetter’ doesn’t sound so glamorous. More…
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How to make sourdough bread
In this post I’ll show how I make sourdough bread at home. The recipe and technique is an amalgam of Hugh Fearnley Wittingstall (River Cottage Everyday) & Dan Lepard (The Handmade Loaf) plus some other stuff I’ve read online and my own experience. Stop press: 31st March 2011 I’ve posted an update with some lessons…