It’s so easy to dry hydrangea flower heads. They’re a beautiful, long lasting addition to home decorations.
Category Archives: Techniques
Base sourdough recipe
My base recipe for sourdough loaves – it’s a robust recipe that you can learn and then begin to adapt and improve with
Egg pasta dough – pasta all’uovo
Full instructions and images for egg pasta dough, plus some hints and tips including being frugal/replacement ingredients for lockdown cooking
Gnocchi
How to make and cook delicious, pillowy gnocchi, a way to change up cooking with potatoes
New to baking? Simplest yeasted bread
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 💚
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
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
Hot Water crust pastry technique – and wild boar and apple spiced hand raised pie recipe
Hot water crust illustrated technique – with wild boar & apple spiced hand raised pie recipe