Course: Bread & Baking

Bagels

A bagel is the only bread product boiled first before baking, giving them their characteristic shinny appearance, warm doughy bite and crunchy crust. Packaged bagels are more like dense rolls than their authentic cousins. I used to live round the corner from Brick Lane in London where they’ve been making fresh bagels for over 100 …

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Witches Fingers – Halloween Biscuits

These are the perfect spooky treat to cook with the children this Halloween and they taste delicious. For an extra scare –  serve them with a blood red dip, try some strawberry puree sweetened with a little honey.
But of course they are tasty too –

Flipping Jack Tiffin

What could be better than fussing my two favourite sweet treat bars together – Flap Jack & Tiffin. Here’s my flippin’ good recipe – perfect for picnics, pack-up’s and Scooby snacks.

Apple, Fig and Toffee Pudding

It’s a celebration of English apples, Gressing hall celebrate and so do I with this delicious indulgent apple based baked pudding with sticky figs and lashings of sweet gooey toffee oozing all over the top – not-calorie free but who cares once in a while.

Christmas Cake

Boozie ole Christmas cake full of seasonal cheer. Although better made earlier so the alcohol can seep in and mature, its still not to late to make this one. My husband has his with a slice of cheese, a Northern tradition but I like mine just as it is with a nice cup of tea on Christmas eve when the children have gone to bed and Santas mince pie is waiting on the mantle.

Easy Light Carrot Cake

There’s nothing quite like a homemade cake, especially when it’s edging on guilt free. Packed with Autumn Carrots, dried fruit and low in fat and sugar.
Slightly spiced but as light as a feather – with a piece of carrot cake on top!

Beer Bread

Beer Bread is so simple to make, no kneading, no proving only bush, bash, bosh and bake! It’s also incredibly tasty, with that slight yeasty tang, beer aroma and soft and slightly doughy bread taste with a great crust.

Basic Bread

A basic white bread recipe – – for use as pizza bases (5), bread rolls (7 -8), loafs (1) and more. The perfect way to relax or vent your anger on a good kneed!

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