Pizza-the-action When I started this whole journey into bread I hadn't really anticipated that one has to start to learn about it all, "somewhere". Sharon Roberts who runs Learn Sourdough was someone that I was put in touch with because she runs classes about...
Eight years in and Andy Weston is now a multi-award winning baker.
Leakers bakery in Bridport feels like it has been around forever. Pretty much – it has!
Bring me fire! Panary In the quest to find real bread I went to the north of Dorset and visited a flour mill at Cann and the bakery that is there. A year ago now (goodness how time flies) Paul Merry and his assistant Martin Judd allowed me to follow them through their...
The bakery on the cornerHaving decided I was going to do a project on bakeries I started ringing around those that I knew of. Sgt. Bun is one of those lovely bakeries that sits near a junction of a couple of roads in my home town of Weymouth. Almost literally the...
Celebration Cakes - CranleighFollowing on from the first post about the roots of my bakery project this is the prequel! I've said before that I come from a long line of bakers. I can trace my bakery roots back to 1805 and a master baker by the name of Thomas Cornwell...
Baker Boys - HookWell if the last post was a look back in time this one is a bit of a jump. This morning I was wishing a couple happy anniversary and went back to their wedding and re-processed an image of them from eleven years ago. It is always interesting going...
This is part three of a set of three posts. The hobby side of my bread baking takes me often to the Facebook Group called Sourdough Nation which is run by the lovely people at Hobbs House Bakery. On that forum during Coronavirus Lockdown I found myself offering to do...
This is part two of a set of three posts. The hobby side of my bread baking takes me often to the Facebook Group called Sourdough Nation which is run by the lovely people at Hobbs House Bakery. On that forum during Coronavirus Lockdown I found myself offering to do a...
Sourdough and dainty delights Some of the blog posts that I'll be adding for the Bread project are starting to seem old! Istvan and Marta run M's bakery in Boscombe. They won the World Bread Awards in 2018. They were bakers in Hungary for many years and Istvan has...