flour

Saturday Bread

4 ‘Tartine’ style loaves, two tins with Stoates 100% organic wholemeal (foreground right), and two tempered with 15 % white plus 15% rye (back to right). Last month in Oslo I spent the nights on a mattress in my host’s library. The first of many temping volumes was Tartine Bread. The author Chad Robertson has

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Baker’s delight

Getting great flour is not so difficult in this Internet age, but getting flour at a reasonable price is not so easy.   I recently spotted the story of a home baker scaling up – Birch Cottage Bread. An interesting subject for me as my Kenwood mixer bought specially for preparing dough had stopped working, and I

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