Gone in seconds

I made doughnuts at the weekend. Just simple ones – plain balls rolled in cinnamon sugar. They were snaffled before I could take a photograph! We needed the brain food, we were working. From 500g of flour I made sixteen small doughnuts (about 35g of dough) and fashioned the remaining dough into a Chelsea Bun …

I killed Bill

Just a quick catch up, as there is still no baking going on here. I killed Bill. I popped him in the ‘fridge over Christmas, to slow him down a bit so I would not have to feed him as often, and then I forgot to feed him at all. Fresh yeast arrives next Monday …

Retro delights

Yesterday saw the freezer filled to the very top so I shall not be baking until I have used up some of the bread in there. We shall start by digging out the Epi for dinner tonight, when we are having our second anniversary dinner. This one is far more interesting than last week’s and …

It ain’t necessarily so

You know,  if one were to attempt to make cheese and have it go rather badly, one could always make a kind of curd tart from the debris… …and if one did, one might choose to perfume the pie with some Aroma Panettone… …and if one did that, it might just well turn out to …