Is bread vegetarian? I can hear you ask the question! In the main, of course, it is. However, vegetarians and vegans do need to be very careful if they buy the industrial loaf because industrial bakers often add a flour improver called L-Cysteine that can be made from animal sources (feathers, fur, pig bristles) including
What should I put in my child’s lunch box? It’s confusing and difficult to know what to put into a packed lunch. You want your kids to actually eat their lunch. You want to pack a healthy lunch. You want them to have variety and your kid wants a cool packed lunch. Look no further
If you can make brioche you can make conchas and here is a really easy recipe for conchas which are made of an enriched dough (not quite as enriched by a true recipe for brioche but not far off) that is shaped into balls and topped it with something akin to pastry. Really very delicious
There is a ray of light, a great bakery has opened up in Monterrey…. Where can I buy good bread in Mexico? Buying bread in Mexico is easy, but buying good bread – real bread – is hard. This is not just a stylistic thing, this is a taste and health thing and the lack
I go to Sweden a lot to visit friends, bake and keep learning about bread. My friend Kat has been eating and discussing bread with me enthusiastically for years and on a recent trip to Sweden we were baking again. There is a great tradition of baking in all of the Nordic countries, including Sweden of
I despise bad science, simplistic argument, and attention grabbing headlines. Truly I do. And that is why I despise this article on wheat by the “Real Pharmacy”. I know that the best way to loathe something is probably to NOT write about it, respond to it, or otherwise draw attention to it but it is
How do you make focaccia? Look no further than….well….about a million recipes. There is no one way to make focaccia. From village to village it’s all different. So you just need to choose: How do you like your focaccia? Thin and crispy and oily? Fat and doughy and not oily? With herbs and sun dried
I went down to deepest darkest Hampshire/Berkshire today to meet my cousins at The Wellington Arms, a pub at which we started to meet because it is half way between their house and mine and at which we continue to meet because it’s so good. It’s a lovely pub with friendly staff in an idyllic
Where can I get good bread near Windsor? Well, let us tell you! On a rainy day, fellow Bread Angel, Ursi (owner of Little Bear Bakery) and I went on a mini bread safari to the German Bakery in Windsor. A kind soul had written into the VB website and alerted us to the presence
Make your own sourdough starter in just four days Making your own sourdough starter takes just four days. I will repeat that: it only takes four days to make a sourdough starter. You have your sourdough starter forever and making your own starter just means you have a four day delay on home made bread