So This is Christmas

Soon be over and I can get back to some proper baking.

The Ultimate Christmas Present

For your lurved-one this Christmas! For just £100 have your beloved’s name embossed (well, printed) on a Bethesdabakers’ gift voucher for a compact but comprehensive baking course. Full course details here

Cucking Fups

I hate them. I love the Cheese Board Collective Works book. A cooperative that’s been operating in the States since the mid-60’s has to be something wonderful. But all the recipes are in cups. That includes things like “2/3 cup (1 stick + 3 tbls)”. So we’re off to see my Mom in Birmingham tomorrow […]

Christmas Special

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Dos Gatos

We don’t usually do animal pics but this is a bona fide bakery operative, Legs, Pest Control Officer: Here the scourge of small rodents is soaking up the low winter sun after a hard day on patrol. Plus the near horizontal rays of the sun pick out other objects lost for the rest of the […]

Breakfast (Contains Gluten)

Raisin Challah, naturally leavened and full of lovely gluten (someone stole a raisin)

Hip Flask Refill

Second two day course in seven days. Last week we had Justin doing Microbakery. Very different this week with Jeremy. His partner bought him a course for his birthday so the objective was to give him a good time but also an intensive hands-on bread skills experience. Actually that’s always the objective – it’s just […]

Stagefright

Sometimes I still get a sort of stagefright before a bake even though I’m entering my tenth year of baking for sale – the fear that you are about to attempt something that’s physically impossible – not just because of the aging body but also the size of the fridge for retarding and the ovens […]

Supermoon II

Parmesan & Courgette Flatbread. Can only be seen in “Sourdough – your guidebook to the world of Naturally Leavened Bread”. No worries about cloud cover.

Supermoon!

2 kilo Pain de Campagne taken from my new “Sourdough – your guide to the world of Naturally Leavened Bread”. Available shortly (just got to run a couple of bread courses first).