Recent Breads

In just the last couple of weeks I’ve put up another seven bread formulas on the partisanbaker site: Pain Niçoise Mediaeval Barley Bread Cistercian Black Olive Bread Black Bean Bread with Herbs and Jalapeños Jamaican Easter Buns Nina’s Bread with Dark Beer Check them out. Make a contribution: paypal.me/partisanbaker Every little donation helps the site […]

Bath Buns aka The Fastest Bun in the West

One of the regular mutterings about sourdough is the length of time it takes – there’s no way you can just make bread when you fancy it. Oh, really ….? Knock up a dough at 80% hydration. It’s wet enough for you to mix with a spatula so you don’t even have to get you […]

Rest of the Bottle

When you’ve made your Jamaican Easter Buns, what to do with the rest of the Titanic Dry Stout? Nina’s fabulous Bread with Dark Beer of course! Bread formula coming shortly.

Free From – Vegans

Couple of weeks back in the Guardian, Meera Sodha, presented a vegan recipe for Jamaican Easter Buns containing highly unnatural ingredients like almond milk and sunflower spread (see here). People of a nervous disposition might also be disconcerted to be faced with commercial yeast hidden in the ingredient list. Still, nothing is beyond redemption: a […]

Laverbread

Not very exciting looking stuff, is it? However, it’s one of those iconic items that spring to mind when the question of what defines Welsh food arises. It’s seaweed, Porphyra Umbilicalis, and maybe sounds a bit more upmarket if you call it by its Japanese name, Nori. Anyway, a guy called Matthew did a bread […]

Bara Surgeirch

Think I’m entering a Welsh bread phase. Bara Surgeirch – sour oatmeal bread – a Welsh soda bread.

Holiday’s Getting Closer

That’s the holiday shopping done then. Aldi special offer £7.99.

Hot X Buns 19.03.18

Just posted in the “Enriched Doughs” section, Hot Cross Buns: What’s all this snow? It’s Easter next week …

New This Week 11-17 March

Bread formulas uploaded this week: Oat & Honey Med Bread Nina’s Swedish Spiced Laputabrot Fig & Walnut Wholemeal Nina’s Simple Danish Rye This site provides free information to bakers. Make a contribution to this service by clicking on this link: paypal.me/partisanbaker

Seasonal Affected Starter?

A whimsical thought. Are the little critters in your starter seasonally affected? I don’t mean, does the temperature affect them, because it obviously does. Raise the temperature your starter’s development speeds up, colder temperatures retard. Less than a fortnight ago we were hit by viciously cold weather, sub-zero temperatures made worse by snow and searingly […]