Given the subject of today’s Dilly Dally in response to the Daily Prompt, I should scarcely be surprised that I sit here now telling you that we cannot have photographs of this morning’s baking. No! It did work. I have a proper loaf on the cooling wire, and it turned out of the new ceramic pan …
Tag archives: baking
Egg Sarnies
I need to learn to bake in smaller quantity. It goes against the grain a little, I grew up learning to make efficient use of my power units and to fill every spare inch of oven space when it was on. Switching on for just one loaf? Oh, how I wish I had the ever-ready …
Malt Loaf
As I mentioned somewhere yesterday, this recipe felt more like mad scientist chemistry than home-cooking due to the number of specialist ingredients. I am reproducing the recipe in full, as written in the original – I am linking back to the original.
25th Nov ’12: Stollen moments
Stollen has been on my “must try” list for years now. On Sunday last I decided to have a go. I knew that I had an out of code block of marzipan – I decided that if it was OK on opening, I’d forge ahead and try a Stollen. Being short of time, I had …
21st Nov ’12: Plain White Stoneground
It feels slightly strange to be working backwards but catching up in the right order would have been tedious, I think. I have been blogging my baking exploits elsewhere and only today elected to separate this part of my life out into a new blog. At some point I’ll summarise how we got here in …
27 Nov ’12: no-recipe bread
Came home yesterday from Spinning Group with fresh yeast and a plan. We had been discussing group purchasing flour in bulk. Time, I thought, to use up some elderly stock. My first delivery from Bakery Bits had arrived and in it, among other things, were a couple of proving baskets and some malted wheat flakes. …