Christmas is now well behind us, and our life has finally got back into its normal rhythm after a pretty gruesome start to the year. Sadly we are of the age when our parents’ generation is passing on and our contemporaries are succumbing to the scourge of cancer and other middle aged diseases. 3 funerals…
Tag: Bread
100% Rye Sourdough – Delicious and Easy
Bread has been somewhat neglected on the blog because it is such an everyday thing for us, but I seem to be making up for lost time. Most weekends my sourdough starter is brought out from the fridge to be brought back to life and a loaf of something is run up. I long stopped…
A Seedy Sourdough
We have my big brother and his brood visiting for the bank holiday so we are in for a houseful for a couple of days. The first port of call for getting ready for any visitors is baking bread for our breakfast toast and I decided it was time to break away from my staple mill…
Wrestling with an Easter Wreath
I can officially say I am now baked out for Easter. My finale was going to be a Polish Babka Wielkanocna, a rich bundt cake (12 egg yolks are just the start of its richness) that caught my eye on Mary Berry’s programme and in the papers, but after making this monster loaf it will…
Trouble on the Heath…and a Brioche on the side
…….and not Hampstead Heath you dirty minded boys out there (though you may need to be of a certain age, or George Michael, to understand that reference). The heath referred to here is Lüneburg Heath in Northern Germany where Heidebrot (Heath Bread) is supposed to come from. I remember Lüneburgerheide as somewhere the British army…
The Cottage Loaf 