Spelt and Linseed

As mentioned earlier, this recipe comes from Bakery Bits and can be found in the leaflet that they produced for use with the La Cloche baking dome. It uses 60/40 Strong White and Spelt flours. Fresh yeast is called for. Just for once I had none to hand, so I used Dove’s Farm active dried …

La Cloche revisited

I was so pleased with the results of baking in the dome that I am going to try it out again today. I am using a recipe from the leaflet that Bakery Bits put together for using La Cloche. This recipe for a Spelt and white flour mix has a plentiful portion of linseed added …

La Cloche

Today I finally made some effort and tried out the bargain baking dome that I bought via eBay. Contrary to my earlier belief, it is actually the real deal and not a copy. It is branded Sassafras on the base. The main reason that I had not yet tested it was that when it arrived, …

Baguettery

One more tick against the old Baking Bucket List. Baguettes. yes, believe it or not, in all my long baking life, this is a first for me.Mr L was due home on the afternoon plane, so I thought the smell of warm bread might be an appropriate welcome home after a week away at the …

Tasty

I have just made up another batch of Granola – from a different recipe this time. I was nibbling at bits… just testing, you know. I reached a conclusion – there is nothing in this world that tastes finer than a toasted almond. Feel free to disagree… I used the recipe from Joy of Baking. This …

Erratic

We don’t seem to be eating much bread at the moment, so there has been little need to bake any. Today was different – we had some roast pork in the fridge and ‘is nibs requested a milk roll to make pork sandwiches for tea. I think I’d have to say that this was the …