Flour, Ink, and Inspiration: My 2025 Baker’s Round-up
What a Year of Mary Berry Taught a Bread Baker. It’s been a little while since I last pulled up a chair here at the Severn Bites blog. Life, as …
Bake Better Bread
Bake Pumpkin Bread and Soup
Create some spectacular pumpkin bread and team it with smooth chilli pumpkin soup
Bake Better Bread: How to choose a wheat flour
Heritage Wheats are coming to a bakery near you Can you imagine going to your local artisan bakery and choosing your bread as you might choose a bottle of wine? …
Bake Better Bread: Why you should scald flour
Scalding Flour Back in 2019 I participated in the Kneading Conference in Skowhegan Maine as a work study volunteer. It was at the session led by Daniel DeRosier who is …
Bake Better Bread: Salt
Is salt important in breadmaking? Yes! Salt Awareness Week suggest we should reduce the amount of salt we eat. Is it time to reduce the amount of salt in bread? …
Japanese Milk Bread. Yudane vs Tangzhong
To make a moist delicious bread, use the tangzhong or yudane method
Bake Better Bread: Not everything you read about making bread is true
Bread recipes are not always right What exactly are cookery book writers telling you in their bread recipes. In July 2020, a group of experienced female bakers us held our …
Bake Better Bread: Choosing and buying bread flour
Where to buy bread flour If you are buying bread flour, where do you source it from? Do you know what flour to look for? Choosing the right flour will …
Bake Better Bread: equipment essentials
Breadmaking equipment. Buy what you really need to get started. Discover what to buy when you have more experience
