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December 2015

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mincemeat tart

Merry Christmas with a large mincemeat tart!

2015-12-11
By: Helen
On: 11/12/2015
In: Sweet

Merry Christmas! I don’t want to worry you, but Christmas has crept up again and it’s only 2 weeks to go! So, time to do some christmas baking. Mince pies always do down pretty well around here, but I thought I would try jazzing up the recipe a bit by making a large mincemeat tart with a frangipane layer and some pastry snowflakes on top to make it extra christmassy. Method I made some sweet pastry, using spelt flour to give it extra flavour. I rested it in the fridge, before rolling it out, lining a large tart tin and blind baking the pastry case. Whilst itRead More →

3 photos of hands stretching dough

Bread is magic!

2015-12-08
By: Helen
On: 08/12/2015
In: Savoury

I really love making bread, it is the complete transformation that occurs when you mix together such unpromising-looking ingredients as flour, water, yeast and salt. You knead it and it becomes something else completely, malleable and dough-like (couldn’t think of a more appropriate word, sorry). I like the process of stretching and pulling and pushing, it can be quite meditative. And the final loaf, risen, crusty and aromatic, is nothing like the dough that went into the oven, it’s like magic. It’s also nothing like most of the bread that you buy, it’s full of flavour and very satisfying. The only trouble is, it goesRead More →

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