danlepard.com

The Bread Builders

by Dan Lepard
The Bread Builders

This is a complex, detailed work without peer. If you want to bake using a natural leaven, if you ever feel in your mind that you want to give over a chunk of your life to baking remarkable loaves with care and dedication, then The Bread Builders should be your first book to start that [...]

Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day

by David Whitehouse
Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day

This book aims to show that breadmaking can be an option for even the time-poorest of home cooks. As with the majority of more detailed books, ‘Artisan Bread…’ .’ opens with Ingredients, Equipment, Tips and Techniques and the authors’ ‘Master Recipe’. With photographs relegated to colour inserts, the onus is on the text to guide [...]

River Cottage Handbook No. 3: Bread

by David Whitehouse
River Cottage Handbook No. 3: Bread

Deceptively presented like a little hard-cover novel, this book is beautifully illustrated with Gavin Kingcome’s rustic photography. The book is prose-heavy and goes into a lot of detail – amateurs may want to give this one a miss, but serious breadheads will be chuffed with such a large amount of information in such a small [...]

Cookbook for Girls

by Zoe Perrett
Cookbook for Girls

I’m not quite sure that I get the idea of a cookbook aimed at girls rather than children in general, but presumably the publishers had thought about this when choosing a title which excluded all those budding Jamies and Gordons in favours of the Delias and Nigellas.
However, having gone down this path, Dorling Kindersly have [...]

Cucurb your enthusiasm: marrow & ginger chutney

by David Whitehouse
Cucurb your enthusiasm: marrow & ginger chutney

This little adventure started when Dan’s cousin Maura and her lovely Mum, Auntie Sheila, gave us a large and fully ripened marrow (Cucurbita pepo) when we visited at Christmas 2009. Most marrows seen on sale in the UK are bright green and look like supersized courgettes, but if you let the marrow reach a good [...]

Current Jobs

by Dan Lepard
Current Jobs

Sally Clarke’s Bakery in London, UK, is currently searching for an Assistant Head Baker with experience in quality bakeries.
Knowledge of sourdoughs,vienoisserie, “the hand shaped loaf” and oven work is essential, alongside good organisional skills and management skills. Attractive salary and benefits for the right person. Approximately 50 hours per week with 2 days off per [...]

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 to extinction

Chutney, Mary: red tomato chutney & yellow tomato chutney

by David Whitehouse
Chutney, Mary: red tomato chutney & yellow tomato chutney

Our very small back garden was relatively neglected for the first nine years we lived here… there always seemed to be something more pressing to spend the money on, like new floorboards, or kitchen cupboards, but late in 2008 we finally agreed on what we wanted and got the builders in. We then had the [...]

Has bean: french bean & tomato relish

by David Whitehouse
Has bean: french bean & tomato relish

The thing that has surprised me most with this year’s first steps in growing vegetables has been just how many beans you get from a few plants tucked in amongst the flowers. First to crop were the dwarf beans, then the runner beans kicked in (and have been amazingly productive, even climbing over the fence [...]

Go, man, go!: mango chutney

by David Whitehouse
Go, man, go!: mango chutney

Having got the garden produce under control for the moment, I still had a hankering to make more things for the store cupboard. On a quick trip to my local supermarket, I found large unripe mangoes on sale at a bargain price, so picked up a box full. I left them near the kitchen window [...]