Year: 2011
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Nettle and Bacon Risotto Recipe
Don’t we all just love things that don’t cost a penny? Foraging for wild food is a way to do this. March is the ideal time to pick nutritious nettles which are jam packed with iron and Vitamin C. You’ve no doubt seen loads of recipes for the ubiquitous ‘Nettle Soup’, which is, of course,…
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Book Review – Knead to Know, the Real Bread Campaign
This well designed book is subtitled, ‘The introductory guide to success in baking Real Bread for your local community’. How well does it fulfill its remit? How far along the line from interested or amateur baker to community purveyor of Real Bread can ‘Knead to Know’ take you? In my view, The Real Bread Campaign…
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French baguette – high hydration bread
I’ve been keen to make ‘proper’ french baguettes for years now. At last I’ve found recipes and techniques that work. There’s still room for improvement as I’m learning as I go. All ‘high hydration’ means is that there’s relatively more water in the dough than a lower hydration dough: ‘wetter’ doesn’t sound so glamorous. More…
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How to make sourdough bread
In this post I’ll show how I make sourdough bread at home. The recipe and technique is an amalgam of Hugh Fearnley Wittingstall (River Cottage Everyday) & Dan Lepard (The Handmade Loaf) plus some other stuff I’ve read online and my own experience. Stop press: 31st March 2011 I’ve posted an update with some lessons…