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Every so often now I catch myself making a comment about just about any yeast-based dough recipes and saying, “ach I can do that”. I say catch myself because as regular readers here will know, there was a time when making bread seemed like some sort of magical, dark art to me. […]
I have been on the most epic adventure over the last few weeks. Well I say few weeks, in truth this adventure started last year but it didn’t pan out, so I’ve chosen to completely gloss over it and pretend it didn’t happen. So last few weeks it is, and […]
I’ve been eating challah since I was a kid and I used to bring it home from the kosher deli I worked in at weekends. It’s a sweet, enriched dough bread which makes the most amazing sandwiches and it looks super impressive because it’s braided but it’s actually really easy […]
The cottage loaf is a traditional British loaf shape from the Victorian era and possibly even earlier although it’s rarely seen in shops these days. I use my standard bread recipe but this loaf is shaped by putting a small ball of dough on top of a bigger one to […]
I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, and like everyone else around me I absolutely love a bacon and scone roll in the morning. Now that doesn’t seem like a huge political statement, but trust me, as you are reading this, some folk are scoffing at their computer screens because I […]
A while back you joined me in my first nervous steps into bread making, so I thought it was time to bring you back to bread making and some of the fabulous new breads I’ve learned. Cheese breads are a favourite of Kate’s, and cheddar and caramelised onion was an […]
