Christmas day, 2022. The sound in our kitchen is the sound of sourdough bread crust cracking while it cools on the worktop. It’s like the sound of ice thawing. As I write this there are two white loafs proofing on the same worktop. They are for the turkey sandwiches over the next two days. I… Continue reading The sound of crust cracking and cooling
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My brown soda loaf-a staple in my diet
Twice or three times a week I bake the brown soda loaf you see on this page. It is Neven Maguire’s recipe from a book of his which I was gifted one Christmas. The book is called “Home Economics for Life” and I believe my wife, Sally, gave me the book in an ambitious attempt… Continue reading My brown soda loaf-a staple in my diet
Brown Bread
I received a gift of a new Neven Maguire book at Christmas, “Neven Maguire’s Home Economics for Life: The 50 Recipes You Need to Learn” and took it as a hint that I was to finally get my act together in the kitchen. And so with prodigious enthusiasm, not to mention a tremendous and violent… Continue reading Brown Bread