Posts Tagged ‘Baking’

Flowerpot Seasoning

Preparing Flower Pots for Baking

Terracotta pots are excellent for baking bread, but be sure to use unglazed ones. Terracotta flower pots are readily available from garden centres. I’d suggest that you use new ones, and then set them aside for baking. Here are some instructions on… Read More

The Elusive Cronut

The Elusive Cronut…

The recent months have seen a media frenzy over Dominique Ansel’s trademarked breakfast pastry invention the ‘Cronut’, which has been rapidly followed by a barrage of other doughnut-croissant hybrids such as the ‘Dosant’, the ‘Croque Croissant’ and the ‘Cronetto’. Surely… Read More

Delicious SourDough

The only sourdough in the village

It was conceived well over a decade ago in Rhinebeck, New York using organic grapes, a copy of Nancy Silverton’s instructions on how to capture a sourdough yeast culture, a large plastic tub, some flour, and a square of muslin… Read More