Bread Therapy

This year's yuletide discharge from Santa's bulging sacks revealed a copy of Crust by Richard Bertinet from my lovely wife MsG....

MsG's birthday is woefully close to Jesus's, which means: a double December sized dent on the credit card for presents. However...

Hurrah! At last: I've made a loaf that looks like it wasn't baked by a chimp. In fact, Sunday's loaf could easily have sneaked...

Ms G has put in a request for a challah this Christmas, so on Friday I did a dummy run. As luck would have it, challah is a great bread...

Last weekend we went to jolly old London village. We did the essential shoe busting route march across town, looked at stuff. More walking...

After the thoughts I'd noted in the previous post I was determined to see improvements in bread appearance. Last week's loaf (sh...

This weekend I made a batch of Lemon Barley Cobs (no photo this week). They all baked well and tasted really good (sounds like a boast but t...

Don't pummel your dough in a blanket of flour: learn to tenderly knead it on a clean surface without any extra flour. When I first s...