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UPDATE: The online courses are now available. You can choose from my Bread Made Easy Masterclass, Bread Basics, Savoury Breads, Easter Breads and Christmas Breads. Take a look at our Online Bread Courses page to help you decide which one will suit you best. I have been busy filming videos for my new online courses
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By reducing the amount of yeast that your recipe suggests you use your loaf will thank you for it. It will take longer to rise, but will be all the better for it, taste wise, as a result. If a recipe suggests using 25g fresh yeast, use 15g instead. You could use as little as
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The photo shows my Komo flour mill in action. Using freshly milled flour makes a huge difference to the taste of your bread, cakes, scones and biscuits. When you mill fresh flour the flour smells of wheat. That may sound obvious but I am yet to open a bag of flour and smell the wheat
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Whilst I am working I sometimes like to listen to podcasts. There is a wealth of information out there that you can just absorb as you go about your daily business. If you want to learn more about bread – whether that’s making it, the history of it or how grain gets from the farmer
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The answer to the question ‘Why make your own bread when you can buy it at every supermarket for about 70p* a loaf?’ could be answered in many ways. *The first edition of this post was published in August 2018. A price check in September 2022 finds the cheapest 800g loaf at 80p, but most
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One of the things I bang on about during my bread classes is how different flour can be. Even using the same brand of flour can be different from bag to bag. It will depend on so many factors: where the grain was grown – country and even county can make a difference; the soil
