Bake Better Bread

Discover my breadmaking tips, techniques and recipes to help you make better bread every time. I use these techniques in my classes.

Fresh yeast is sold in cubes or blocks

Bake better bread: Fresh Yeast

How to use fresh yeast What yeast do you use in your bread? Do you …
Bread Baked in Cast Iron Pan

Bake Better Bread: Using heat and steam

Use heat and steam to improve your bread If you’ve taken time over your bread …
Cottage loves

Bake Better Bread: Not everything you read about making bread is true

Bread recipes are not always right What exactly are cookery book writers telling you in …
Valentine's Heart

Savoury Tear and Share Pesto Rolls Recipe

Pesto Bread Pesto filled tear and share bread is a fun recipe to make and …
Mini berry babas served in ramekins

Mini berry rum baba recipe

A delicious afternoon treat Bread is my thing and I particularly love making sweet doughs …
Chocolate Buns

Chocolate spread and Chocolate buns

I became a bit obsessed trying to find the right chocolate spread to fill chocolate …

Create a simple sourdough starter

The easy way to make a sourdough starter Do you have a sourdough starter? Have …
Time for deliberation at the World Bread Awards

Bread heaven at World Bread Awards

Judging in the World Bread Awards 2024: The World Bread Awards are currently on hold …
Abruzzo Potato Bread

Italian Potato Bread – Abruzzo Style

This Italian bread is typically found in the inland areas of Abruzzo particularly in L’Aquila …
Baba Napolitano

Baba Napolitana

A versatile, orange and rum soaked baba You might be familiar with rum babas? This …
Our bread needs salt

Bake Better Bread: Salt

Is salt important in breadmaking? Yes! Salt Awareness Week suggest we should reduce the amount …
Muffins baked on the griddle

Let’s Bake English muffins

Make Bread Muffins, a British Classic Often the only time we get to eat bread …
YQ Flour Loaf

Bake Better Bread: Choosing and buying bread flour

Where to buy bread flour If you are buying bread flour, where do you source …
Lena's Porridge Bread Buns

Lena’s Swedish Porridge Bread Recipe

Do you delight in eating porridge for breakfast? Or would you rather stick to bread? …
Stollen

Bake my Stollen Recipe

When did you first taste Stollen? I’m not at all sure when I first tasted …
Fermented raisins

Time to ferment bread with raisin water

Can you make bread without yeast or sourdough starter? Try fermented fruit water Whilst chatting …
Barley Bread

Bake Better Bread: Why you should scald flour

Scalding Flour Back in 2019 I participated in the Kneading Conference in Skowhegan Maine as …
Stromboli Slice

Stromboli Recipe – a feast for pizza lovers

Cut the Stromboli into generous slices before serving This Stromboli recipe is for you if …
Italian Style Easter Bread

Italian Easter Bread

Creating the perfect Italian Style Easter Bread Many of the recipes for Italian Easter Bread …
A selection of pumpkins

Pumpkins Galore Gloucestershire

Go picking pumpkins near you and use up your pumpkin in a tasty soup. It’s …
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