Tag Archives: baking

Making Good use of Oven Space – Breadbox

Zeb Bakes Bread

I am often asked if I repeat the breads I bake and the answer is that of course I do, but just as no two days are the same, no two breads that I bake are ever quite the same, I’m a home baker after all!

We have favourites and variations on themes so this is what I am going to call a Breadbox post, it will probably have a bread I’ve blogged about before but these posts will have nice pics ( I hope) of those and any half baked thoughts that are floating around in my head. Continue reading →

February Flapjacks

Now is the season of my discontent
Made happy eating by this plate of flapjacks

  • 250 g Porridge oats
  • 175 g soft butter
  • 85 g of chopped glacé cherries
  • 60 g of slightly crushed flaked almonds
  • 50 g of salted caramel sauce or 50 g golden syrup (Choclette is right and I had too much sweet stuff here – been back and weighed properly when I made them again, and have dropped the syrup quantities)
  • 125 g soft brown sugar
  • two capfuls of Kirsch (why not? – actually don’t, because you can’t taste it…)

These have always been called flapjacks in England as far as I know, though I understand from my transatlantic readers that the word flapjack is used to describe a popular breakfast pancake in the US and Canada.  Another one of those words that has two different uses. See the comments for the discussion on this. Continue reading →

Valentine’s Toast

A two post day!

Nothing original about love, but like freshly made toast, a little goes a long way.

Valentine's Toast

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To make this loaf or something similar, use full cream milk and any dairy products you like in with your regular bread flour and you will get a light and fluffy loaf that makes great toast.

320 ml of liquids to 500 grams of flour, 10 grams of salt, 2 tsps of yeast, 2 dessertspoons of light spraymalt.