Today I made cookies with my daughter Poppy for the first time. My wife Emma was working today at the local school so I thought it was a great opportunity to do something different with poppy, something special that I can do well with her, so cookies it was. I used a recipe that did [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It all starts on a friday afternoon by weighing out the right amount of flour for the following day, the flour (we use carrs) it is then blended together with some salt and set aside until after the lunch time rush . Then we weigh out the correct amount of yeast and mix well with water [...]
While I was off work on paternity leave following the arrival of my baby boy Ethan I have been researching that classic loaf the Sour Dough.
I have started working with the Lake District Cheese Company this year so i have been working on developing some recipes with embrace this great cheese
