We have been having a very nice week off work at home, though as ever when one staycations, we have done a little too much round the house clearing out the dust from the building work and catching up on the garden. I may have also taken on a little too much when committing to…
Tag: Brioche
La Dolce Gubana
My Easter Baking has begun and with so much choice from around the world (see my last post here) I was struggling to make a decision about what to do first. My first thoughts were a Simnel Cake, but I realised I needed to take one to my mother over Easter. Also we are making a…
A Delicious Bee Sting with a Bienenstich
Regular readers will know we have had the builders in for the last couple of weeks. Our old shower room needed replacing thanks to Suffolk’s hard water wreaking havoc with the plumbing over the years (and a bit of 1970’s jerry building). The job has been proving trickier than we thought, so we have been…
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 