Getting the best out of wholemeal flour
When it comes to getting you and your family on the whole-grain-train, these tips will get you better results out of your bread and cakes.
Yay! It's National Picnic Week
It’s National Picnic Week this week so grab your blankets and baskets and get out into the great outdoors for this brilliant British alfresco tradition. With high summer upon us, what better way to enjoy our parks and countryside than with some home-made picnic staples. Just the word 'picnic' conjures up visions of peaceful, pastoral countryside, a gathering of people, a hamper full of finger-friendly dining and a bottle or three! With over a 200 year history, us Brits have happily set our hampers down in all sorts of places from summer meadows, sandy beaches and river banks. And despite...
Baking and the Great British Street Party
Nothing brings a community together more than when a special royal jubilee is celebrated. This will be the fourth jubilee celebration for our longest-reigning monarch, following the Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Golden Jubilee in 2002 and the Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Us Brits have used street parties to celebrate major national occasions for more than a century. The end of wars, coronations, royal weddings and jubilees have all been leapt on as excuses to get out the trestle tables and paper cups. The events echo down the decades revealing just how much we have changed but how the simple desire...
What's the deal with spelt flour?
From ‘ancient wheat’ to ‘the gateway grain,’ spelt has been used for millennia and is a healthy and nutritious grain. It’s a wonderfully unique flour which is easy to work with and can be used for both bread baking and cakes. What is spelt flour? It’s a type of wheat flour that encompasses the entire grain. If you’re a fan of whole wheat flour then spelt is your hero because it’s undoubtedly the easiest of all the flours in this category to work with. If you’ve tried wheat flour before that wasn’t spelt, and not had particularly spectacular results from...