Drying hydrangeas

It’s so easy to dry hydrangea flower heads. They’re a beautiful, long lasting addition to home decorations.

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