More Dan Lepard from the essential book The Handmade Loaf. Some proper teatime muffins. It’s crazy I feel I have to refer to these as “English muffins”, as I’m English and was eating these long before US-style muffins invaded Britain.
Muffins are like yeasted buns, but are cooked on a griddle or hotplate. Alongside crumpets, muffins [...]
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Buckwheat muffins
June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Baking
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Alsace loaf with rye
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Baking
Very pleased with this one. It’s another recipe from Dan Lepard’s The Handmade Loaf, a book that’s kept me busy for many a weekend, and will doubtless do so for years to come. Although I’m yet to perfect my stick-shaping technique, the flavour was delicious, the texture nice and open, the crust crunchy without being [...]
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Handmade loaves
February 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Baking
Although I blog about my baking over at Cake-Off, the emphasis there is on cakes, cupcakes, tray-baked cakes, biscuits, cookies and all things sweet and yummy. For my bread-making, I’m going to try and write about it a little more here.
I’ve been making bread on and off most of my adult life, starting, like much [...]