baking

How to make rosemary and olive bread

June 28, 2010
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Rosemary bread is very easy to make, and you can add olives to give it a Mediterranean twist. It is great with both salads and meat products.

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A steady supply of home-baked bread

June 23, 2010
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A weekly gift of a loaf of freshly home-baked bread is doing much to enhance our breakfasts, and proving to be highly inspirational.

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Success with the sourdough bread

March 23, 2010
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Our second attempt at baking sourdough bread was more successful than the first, but the results were still nit as light and airy as we had hoped. We suspect that it’s all down to inadequate proving.

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We’ve made beer bread

March 22, 2010
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We’ve been experimenting with making bread using beer. The results aree delicious, and with only three ingredients in the whole recipe it’s a quick and easy treat to bake.

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Mixed results from the sourdough mix

March 21, 2010
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Our first sourdough bread was flatter and denser than we had been expecting, but we’ve worked out why and reckon that next time around we should have it sorted. It still tasted good, though.

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Marble cake

December 14, 2009
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Marble cake is great for parties and birthdays. The colourful inside makes for a great surprise when cut, and it’s not much more difficult to make than regular sponge cake.

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How to make blackberry and apple pie: simple recipe

August 19, 2009

Blackberry and Apple pieThere is so much free fruit to pick right now that it’s the perfect time to make one of the most tasty pies going: blackberry and apple.

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Brie and broccoli quiche recipe

September 25, 2008

Continuing our series on things to make with the eggs you’ll get from a small flock of home-kept hens, which recipe for brie and broccoli quiche is a delicious alternative to the meat-centric quiche lorraine.

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How to make pastry

September 9, 2008

Pastry can be quite temperamental, but once you have mastered the art of making it, you can make some big savings on the cost of buying it in.

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Cornish pasty recipe

March 10, 2008

Cornish pastiesCornish pasties are very easy to make – much easier than you probably realise. If you can knock up a pastry you’re half way there, end even if you can’t, you can always buy that part and then fill them with home-grown vegetables and locally-sourced meat.

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