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 […]

Fig’n’Walnut Wholemeal

Requested by Rene, now posted in the Specials section of the Menu, Fig and Walnut Wholemeal.

BBGA Calendar 2018

Second year on the trot – not one but two photos in the Bread Bakers Guild of America calendar: The top one shows Nina’s Simple Danish Rye with the quarry and Glyder mountains in the background. The second one is the smaller photo under “Wednesday” – Klimentini’s family recipe for Christopsomo.

“Artisan Bread”?

Look what just came through my letter box: Does that look like incitement to con and rip off the British public? It suggests that you too could market small loaves of fake bread for the best part of a fiver – no knowledge required. The Real Bread Campaign is celebrating it’s tenth anniversary this year […]

Grill Pan II

Next in the grill pan- Burgers! 100% beef (well, a little salt & black pepper) Plus instant burger buns (dough in fridge 48 hours, roughly shaped and straight in the oven as soon as it reaches 250C). Not a meal for food-faddists.

Bruschetta

Roast cherry tomatoes in olive oil with garlic and chile flakes. Grill Pain de Campagne, rub both sides with a peeled clove of garlic and sprinkle with olive oil. Layer the tomatoes on the toast with goats cheese and rocket pouring any pan juices over the top. Sue’s favourite (minus the chile)

Santes Dwynwen

Santes (Saint) Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers and her saint’s day is this Thursday 25 January. This is a bit weird because she spent most of her life as a nun but not as weird as the rest of the story. Back in the 5th century Dwynwen is deeply in lurve with […]

New Business Card

2018

10 January already. Better crank up the blog. People who have done courses with me are already featuring in the news this year. Three years ago I taught Benjamin Lee and his staff at Becws Mefus, Llangefni, to bake sourdough and went on to do a product development consultancy for him. Since then he has […]