Another Baking Course

Yes, another one, you would think that I would know what I'm doing by now but more education in the dark art of bakery can only help. The course is at The School of Artisan Food on Saturday and I have booked a hotel to stay for a couple of nights. The idea is that I drive up on Friday and stay until Sunday morning so that there's no rush and I can take my time, then a few days to practice what I've learnt before flying off to Florence for a week of sunshine and art galleries. I have not been baking as much as I would like lately as work seems to have taken over my life. Hopefully once I'm back from my holiday I can get back into it.

Sourdough

So here it is at last, I have finally managed to post a picture of my latest loaf, a white Sourdough. it only took 72 hours to make. It was worth it though, it has a lovely crust which I could hear cracking after I had taken it out of the oven.

Crumpets!

Well I said in my earlier blog that I was going to give these a try and so I did on Monday night. The first ones were a bit too thick and I could have used them to wedge a door open or stun one of the local pigeons if thrown hard enough. the final batch were not too bad and I couldn't help but pop one in the toaster, smother it in butter and take a big bite. The taste was very different from commercially made crumpets, very bread like not unpleasent just different from what I'm used to. I will have to try these out on a few friends and see what they say.

Update!

Okay, so apologies to anyone with enough time on there hands to read this blog, I haven't posted anything for some time, it's not that I haven't been baking but have not baked anything new. Easter came and went with a rush and before that it was my birthday. My sister-in-law baked me the most amazing cake as you will see from the photo's below.

I made a batch of currant buns for the people at work, they seem to go down a storm as I didn't have one left over, other than that it's been the usual white or wholemeal loaf baked every other day or so. Thinking about it that's not strictly true, I made a couple of loaves with olives in for some friends, I did manage to taste some and I have to say it wasn't bad. I have been feeding the sourdough culture that I have for the last few days and it's bubbling away like mad, I'm going to try and make a few loaves from it. I will post on here when they are done. I've just remembered another challenge and that was to make crumpets, will give that a go this afternoon.