The best ever hand made crumpets
Crumpets and tea are things of beauty, especially in the winter when warm, buttery, toasted things are welcome by tea time just as the long, dark night begin to close in.
Bread and baking
Bath buns
Bath buns are a total and complete delight. You will LOVE how easy they are to bake and how utterly yummy they are.
Life is too short for lent
We need excitement and beauty. During COVID, we fried doughnuts, ate pancakes, gobbled all the chocolate in the house and we learned that life is too short for giving up goodies. My thought? Take up walking 10,000 steps per day instead.
Easy recipe for delicious, Swedish Tunnbrod (thin bread)
Unlike Swedish Cracker bread, Swedish Tunnbrod is soft and squashy – perfect for a picnic, quick lunch or breakfast.
Lussebullar – simple and delicious saffron buns from Sweden
Lussebullar are a Scandinavian bun prepared and eaten specifically to celebrate St Lucia’s day on the 13 December. They are super fun to make and very very yummy.
Impressive and simple bread sticks
This recipe first appeared in All You Knead is Bread, now republished as Making Bread At Home. Covid got you down? Why not continue to bake your way around Italy, learning virtually on our ciabatta and the focaccia e courses!
Delicious and beautiful twisted, chocolate buns
If you enjoy baking buns, why not buy The Book of Buns and enjoy some bun challenges every few weeks. To learn more about bread, click here to take a face to face or Zoom baking class or click here to take one of our e-learning classes. You will enjoy really fun, informative sessions. We …
How to make rye bread
It may be time for a SUPER SIMPLE recipe for rye bread. No sourdough, no wheat flour. Just rye. Any rye will do. Rye has a bad reputation. People think is is heavy and dense, “brick like” and black. Well, it need not be any of those things. It can be very light and almost …
A two country bread tour and not a hole in sight
How do I get those big holes in my bread? That is a question we often get from students. In fact, we get it so quickly that there is a post dedicated to it. However, take a set back and ask yourself these questions: why am I baking bread how am I baking bread what …
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A simple recipe for delicious cinnamon buns
Cinnamon buns are *just a bit* of a Canadian thing and remind us of summer week ends and winter mornings. This delicious recipe results in fantastic cinnamon buns just perfect for breakfast or coffee.