Sausages!

Continuing with Peter Reinhart’s Perfect Pan Pizza: Garlic Lovers’ Italian Sausage. Experimenting with baking pan pizza in cake rings. My patent spreadsheet dough calculator tells me I need 135.7g for a 6″ ring and 377g for the 10″ (after reducing his quantities by a third). The dough has been maturing in the fridge for a […]

10 Oat & Honey

Now that my ulcerated leg is nearly better I need a new baking plan. I’m not going back to 40+ large loaves at a time and I’m abandoning the mixer – hauling out kilos of dough from floor level is gut-wrenching. So I’m experimenting with baking 10 loaves per week, just one dough instead of […]

Torth Yr Wyl

A little token of thanks to the vascular nurses at Ysbyty Gwynedd who, along with the local nurses, have been treating my leg ulcers. Should be my last appointment with them today although the Bethesda nurses will have to put up with me a little longer. The local health authority may be in a state […]

Old Dog: Pizza 2

New feature on Detroit style pizza here

Students

Here’s a photo I stole off Facebook. My mate Kev with a Pumpkin, Sunflower Seed and Chile loaf ready for the oven. This is a photo of Matt and Geth taken yesterday at Matt’s shortly-to-be-opened pizza restaurant in Llangefni. What they have in common is all three have done bread courses with me. When Kev […]

Capperi, Bordeaux

New feature added: Capperi a serious pizzeria – even if a visit takes a little planning … Capperi

Bread Course

David Lea-Wilson, of Halen Môn/Anglesey Sea Salt, is a happy boy at the end of his bread course yesterday. ” Loved the course – freezer not big enough… ” he emailed later in the day. He was also a lucky boy because a good friend bought him the course as a present. Well, People, Christmas […]

Old Dog: Episode 1

See how the aging and recovering baker attempts to regain his brain (and leg) with the help of, amongst other things, pineapple pizza. Follow the link: https://thepartisanbaker.com/old-dog-episode-1/

Let them eat Cake salé au Potimarron

Widely misquoted, what Marie-Antoinette actually said “Let them eat cake salé au potimarron”. What a lot of people don’t know is that the French use the word “cake” to define baked concoctions, usually containing eggs and not much flour, both sweet and savoury (sucré et salé) and baked in a tin. A tin in French […]

Breakfast #48

Never had any ambition to make “authentic” French baguettes. I just make smallish, 200g baguettes using my basic Campagne dough and very popular they are too. They’re about the only bread that doesn’t improve by standing overnight – get ’em down you and, if they’re still around the next day, give them a blast in […]