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apple pie

Ssh! A secret about apple pie

2015-11-08
By: Helen
On: 08/11/2015
In: Sweet

Falling leaves, misty mornings, the cows have been brought in, bonfire night has gone off with a bang, it must be Autumn and time for apple pie. Method: I made a standard sweet shortcrust pastry, blind-baked the crust (controversial I know, but no-one wants a soggy bottom, do they?), cooked the apples before putting them in and made a lattice top. The lattice is easier than it looks, just a matter of cutting equal width strips, laying some of them side by side and weaving others through, then carefully placing on top of the pie. Brushed with egg yolk, I baked it for about 40Read More →

beetroot bread

Pink Bread Disappointment!

2015-11-03
By: Helen
On: 03/11/2015
In: Savoury

Having lots of beetroot in the garden, and looking for a variation on my normal wholemeal bread, I found the recipe from the Bakery Bits Newsletter and made beetroot bread. It was a vibrant pink dough and still looked pink straight out of the oven. However, by the time we came to eat it, the pinkness had gone and it just looked like normal wholemeal bread with the odd fleck of colour in it. Even so, it was a nice moist loaf and very tasty, which is the point really. The image above left is the dough in the proving basket and to the right is when the bread hasRead More →

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