Christmas Stollen: Daring Bakers’ Challenge December 2010

The 2010 December Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Penny of Sweet Sadie’s Baking. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make Stollen. She adapted a friend’s family recipe and combined it with information from friends, techniques from Peter Reinhart’s book………and Martha Stewart’s demonstration. Stollen is a bread-like fruitcake made with yeast, water and flour, and [...]

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Brown Scones with Seeds

Another bank holiday weekend over!  Can you believe the next proper ‘break’ from work is Christmas? Is it too early to even type the word ‘Christmas’? And it was so dark when the alarm went off this morning!  I think I need to move to California!  I do love baking this time of year though: [...]

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Brown Soda Bread

An Irish person’s favourite brown bread seems to be a very personal thing. There are so many different recipes and methods to produce the ultimate brown soda bread. Some recipes use all whole meal flour, some use a mix of wholemeal and plain flour. Some add a little sweetness, some prefer to stay savoury with [...]

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Savoury Cornbread

When we were in San Francisco last February, we ate breakfast out alot. Our hotel’s boring buffet option seemed less exciting than the random diners with good coffee dotted around the surrounding blocks. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, home fries, fruit (well not so much). At one of these delicious breakfasts (at some ungodly hour of the [...]

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Blueberry Bread

So I ran out of time for the Daring Bakers’ Challenge this month.  I can’t believe it. In my defence, I was *sure* there was another weekend left in June. There isn’t. I was away last week taking laser measurements and attending a summer school, and I visited my parents for the first time in [...]

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