Back to basics recipe and technique (including videos). How to make a very simple loaf/your first loaf. Also ideas to change your loaf to stop food wastage – new on Inksugarspice ๐
Category Archives: Kitchen tips & food advice
Sourdough flatbreads
These are my gorgeous, tangy flatbreads but they do take some commitment as they are fully sourdough, with a pre-ferment stage. I’ve been making sourdough since 2001… I was already making bread by hand for many, many years before this, but started as my twin baby sons began weaning. I was a little obsessed withContinue reading “Sourdough flatbreads”
Chilli salt grissini
An easy recipe for taper-thin, crispy grissini / bread sticks with chilli salt coating
Flavoured salts – part two
Four incredible salt mixes: Italian with dried tomato puree, French, Umami with dried @marmite (yes really!) and a pretty and unusual English Summer Sweet – all vegetarian. Part 2 of my salt mixes posts
Nine top tips on artful bread scoring
My nine top tips on making beautiful scored patterns and art on your bread
Bread shapes: making at home
A look at the most commonly created bread shapes
Flavoured salts – part one
[updated] It’s all the food fashion at the moment it seems to have a pot of two of flavoured sea salt, with salt companies clambering over each other to bring them out. Take a look past the hype and you’ll see that salt mixes are exceptionally useful in the kitchen and can even be usedContinue reading “Flavoured salts – part one”
Stencilled beer cob
Stencilled cob loaf – a recipe for a beer bread cob loaf, plus how to stencil bread and a free medieval sun face stencil to create a gorgeous loaf
Lavender and Lovage – book review ๐
Lavender and Lovage – cookbook review ๐ “By interleaving smaller stories and anecdotes between the recipes, Karen’s woven a holistic, beautiful book, where the recipes only make full sense with the voice, and vice versa”