Recipes for yeasted baking, breads, rolls, buns, brioche and yeasted pastries
Chelsea Buns are a lovely, fruit-filled bread, traditionally baked close together so that they join up in baking. I read lots of recipes before deciding what ingredients to use. Some use mixed dried fruit, others sultanas, raisin, apricots, cherries and any number of other fruits. I eventually decided to try to make something that resembled […]
I wanted to try a Mulligatawny soup recipe that I found, but also needed some bread to go with it, so I decided on some wholemeal rolls. However I struggled to find a decent recipe for the rolls that I liked. I did find a Paul Hollywood recipe for a wholemeal loaf, and thought that […]
As it is Christmas time I thought I wouldn’t be baking for a week or so, but I had the urge. At first I was going to try to make some pretzels, but having read the recipes I decided that was just too much work for today. So I opted to make some soft white […]
A lovely treat is a toasted teacake, with lashings of butter, all washed down with a cup of tea. I looked around for a recipe, and found several that looked promising. The one I settled of was on the BBC Food website, courtesy of The Hairy Bikers. I just want to comment on that site, […]
There is nothing quite like the smell of cinnamon as it is being baked. The aroma really whets the appetite. So I hunted around for some nice bunsrecipes and found one for a Scandinavian type bun in The Guardian . The article actually goes into detail about several different recipes they tried, and then provides, what […]
To go with yesterday’s Cauliflower Soup I decided on Paul Hollywood’s recipe, on BBC Food website. This is a white loaf with a hard crust on the outside. I watched a video of Paul making the loaf and read the recipe. It didn’t give any indication that this would work well in a stand […]
As a bit of a savoury bake today I have made cheese scones. I don’t actually enjoy cooked cheese, but a scone is fine, as it will be eaten cold, and there is not too much cheese in it. It is melted cheese like on pizza and in things like lasagne which I find so […]
I had never tried Brioche, knowingly at least, so thought I would have a go and making some. It is an enriched dough, and is supposed to be very light indeed. It is also very heavy on eggs and butter, and sweetened somewhat by a little sugar. For my bake I decided upon a Paul […]
This recipe is one of my favourites, not too sweet, and quite simple, but deliciously nice. Eating an iced bun, reminds me of a TV ad from years ago, where the actor would eat a cream cake and say ‘naughty, but nice’. That is just how I feel about these buns. The recipe I used […]
I had a baking blitz a few weeks back, baking 4 different loaves in a single day. The first of which is a Sticky Malt Loaf. For those who know, and love the Soreen malt loaf this is not like that. But it is certainly most delicious, and its stickiness increases day by day. I […]