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 [...]
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 [...]
I started work at 5am this morning to make our bread for the deli so it was pitch black. After several coffees I went out to collect the papers and have a quick shop around Keswick’s farmers market and there it was Skiddaw mountain covered in snow. Every year I see this site but it [...]
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 [...]
I have just taken delivery of my new cookery book Simply Good Bread and it is for sale in the cafe priced at £15, we are also planning to sell the book through Amazon uk. The new boo is all about making your own bread a little easier, by using a Panasonic bread maker. This [...]
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.
On Friday 28th November we had a stall on the Keswick Christmas food market
