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Australia: Yarra Valley: Fruition Bakery

Baking in a big city is fine; it has a ‘buzzy’ urgency. Chef customers hot on the phone, whining the instant they see anything unusual with the delivery. Shoppers spinning...

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Paris: bakeries

I'm regularly asked what bakeries might be particularly worth a visit when in Paris. Very briefly, and in no particular order, this is my 'top 10', a personal and far...

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A pressing time in Cambridge

Apple juice, champagne and a wood-fired oven, with Jack Lang and Jill Grey. The aims of the home baker are varied. For some, the...

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features

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Cakes, pastries, and other baking • Re: Ricciarelli

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features hot cross and bothered

Australia: Melbourne: Loafer Bread

by Dan Lepard
Australia: Melbourne: Loafer Bread

I took these photos when Loafer was owned and run by brothers Georg and Antoine von Baich and their family, two Canadians who were...

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Oranges are the only fruit

by Dan Lepard
Oranges are the only fruit

They're doing it again. Warning of the imminent death of marmalade eating and the traditional British way of life as we tweet our way...

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Bake class: is it twirly for cake?

by Dan Lepard
Bake class: is it twirly for cake?

Marble cake recipes involve what appear at first to be a simple technique swirling two mixtures together in the tin. But getting those curves...

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recipes

Crisp, golden, light, salty & oily

by Dan Lepard
Crisp, golden, light, salty & oily

Making a Focaccia Genovese in a commercial bakery(originally published in British Baker) Foccacia has a home, in Italy, and a birthplace in the town of Genoa. That’s what Italians from Genoa tell me. But then as every man, woman and child...

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Blini-esque American-style pancakes (made with a touch of sour starter)

by Dan Lepard
Blini-esque American-style pancakes (made with a touch of sour starter)

Some people worry about being wasteful when discarding old starter at each and every refreshment. This simple solution may not suit you on a daily basis, but it’s a delicious way to use up something you might otherwise have thrown...

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Yellow Tomato & Ginger Chutney

by David Whitehouse
Yellow Tomato & Ginger Chutney

I decided to make a spicier version of my original Yellow Tomato chutney, as in addition to a last flush of the ‘Sun Baby’ or ‘Sun Belle’ tomatoes I’d used from our garden earlier this year, we also had a...

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Christmas Plum & Apricot Chutney

by David Whitehouse
Christmas Plum & Apricot Chutney

Late in the autumn, I had some dark red plums that were just asking to be made into something, and I also needed to sort out a couple of kitchen cupboards and use up some of the things I found...

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recipes

Wild Fermentation

Not a baking book, per se, but one which I’ve found interesting and thought-provoking enough to want to see...

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River Cottage Handbook No. 3: Bread

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Deceptively presented like a little hard-cover novel, this book is beautifully illustrated with Gavin Kingcome’s rustic photography. The book...

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