Jan 15th
No kneed bread
There has been alot of talk about this no knead bread, so i thought i would look into it for you and see if i could come up with a good recipe for you.
500g strong white flour
15g fresh yeast / 7g dried yeast
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp of sugar
370ml [...]
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Jan 10th
This bread is a great combination of two flavours, sweet plump sultanas and that perfumey fennel taste all wrapped up in a fantastic crusty bread. For this recipe you need to use a good extra strong flour to help achieve a good crust.
Ingredients
500g Extra strong white flour
480ml water
7g dreid yeast or 14g [...]
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Jan 7th
I found this great little gadget on Amzon UK before christmas and it just arrived this week. So i have been making some great little bite size snacks. It is meant to be used for pasta dough, but i have been rolling out bread dough and filling it with all kinds of fillings, egg washing [...]
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Jan 7th
This soup is one of the Good Taste cafe customers Favorites
Ingredients
1kg parsnip
1 large white onion chopped roughly
3 cloves of garlic
1 red chili or 1 tsp of dried chili flakes
2 pints of vegetable stock
100g parmesan or the skin of the parmesan cheese
100 ml of double cream
salt [...]
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Jan 7th
Banana bread
Ingredients
100g butter
175g castor sugar
2 large eggs beaten
200g self raising flour
200g ripe bananas
85g yogurt
½ tsp of baking powder
½ tsp of nutmeg
125g plump sultanas
100g roasted walnuts or pecans
75g poppy seeds
Method
cream the butter and the sugar together in a bowl until it is light and fluffy
add the beaten eggs
add a little of the flour at a time [...]
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Dec 2nd
Introduction
I was given this recipe by my mother in law, it is an old recipe from Cyprus
where they used to live in the 70’s
Lemon tart
Ingredients
4oz short crustpastry
3 eggs
6oz caster sugar
2oz melted butter
1 lemon zest and juice
Method
Line and rest a pie dish
Blind bake for 10 mins 170oc
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Nov 28th
Here at the Good Taste bakery with have been playing around with some new bread baking methods.
We have started mixing the bread and leaving it over night, this seems to result in us not needing to knead the bread so much, which is great because that mean we get an extra half hour in bed [...]
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Nov 25th
Introduction
Our coffee is the back bone of our business we take great care in making sure it is the best we can possibly make, as we drink it all day long and we would be the first to know if it was not right.
The first thing we do every morning is open a fresh bag [...]
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Nov 7th
I personally love risotto, i have been trying to come up with a few west coast versions of some European classic’s. While out walking my dog Sandy and Poppy my daughter picking up every stone, pebble and seaweed she can find on the beach I saw some people out seaching for the great British brown [...]
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Nov 5th
Due to popular demand from customers in the cafe I have finally got round to publishing my sausage roll recipe
Introduction
Here at Good Taste we started making our own sausage rolls after nipping out to a well know high street bakers for a snack, we were so dissapointed we thought someone should re introduce a real [...]
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