Category: Bread information

• Caring for your bannetons

  

  If you’re a keen bread baker you probably will have one or more proofing bannetons. These can actually represent quite a bit of financial outlay, if you’ve amassed a collection. The fact that they’re such useful and essential kit for a baker together with the financial investment does mean they need a little looking after.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  October 21, 2022

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food

  banneton, care, cleaning, couche, fermentation, liner, maintenance, proof, proofing, use

• Base sourdough recipe

  

  My base recipe for sourdough loaves – it’s a robust recipe that you can learn and then begin to adapt and improve with

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 18, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Techniques

  basic, beginner, realbread, sourdough, sourdoughSeptember, starter, wild yeast

• A week in the life of a loaf

  

  A week in the life of a loaf -how to make the most of your bread day by day (whether you’ve made or bought it) plus some additional ideas

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 16, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Frugal food, Ingredient information, Kitchen tips & food advice, Lunch

  a day in the life, a week, breadcrumbs, bruschetta, cheese on toast, covid-19, croutons, frugal, ideas, lockdown cooking, melba toast, pandemic, seven days, waste not

• New to baking? Simplest yeasted bread

  

  Back to basics recipe and technique (including videos). How to make a very simple loaf/your first loaf. Also ideas to change your loaf to stop food wastage – new on Inksugarspice 💚

  Ink Sugar Spice

  March 22, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Food skills, Techniques

  first, how to, knock back, knocking back, real bread, simple

• Sourdough flatbreads

  

  These are my gorgeous, tangy flatbreads but they do take some commitment as they are fully sourdough, with a pre-ferment stage. I’ve been making sourdough since 2001… I was already making bread by hand for many, many years before this, but started as my twin baby sons began weaning. I was a little obsessed with […]

  Ink Sugar Spice

  March 1, 2020

  Bread, Bread information, Food, Herbs, Italian, Sides, Vegetarian

  flatbread, frying, mother, skillet, slowfood, sourdough, starter, wild yeast

• Nine top tips on artful bread scoring

  

  My nine top tips on making beautiful scored patterns and art on your bread

  Ink Sugar Spice

  February 9, 2019

  All seasons, Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Food skills, Kitchen tips & food advice, Techniques

  advice, artistic breads, Bread, bread art, bread slash, dough, featured, grignette, lame, slashing bread, top tips

• Stencilled beer cob

  

  Stencilled cob loaf – a recipe for a beer bread cob loaf, plus how to stencil bread and a free medieval sun face stencil to create a gorgeous loaf

  Ink Sugar Spice

  January 13, 2019

  All seasons, Baking, Bread, Bread information, British, Crafts, Food, Food skills, Techniques, Winter

  beer, beer bread, Bread, bread art, bread slashing, download, featured, PDF, reindeer, stencil, stencil making, stencilled

• Knotted pesto dinner rolls

  

  Delicious and soft knotted pesto dinner rolls

  Ink Sugar Spice

  November 6, 2017

  All seasons, Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Italian, Sides, Vegetarian

  Bread, panini, pesto, Rolls

• Pan d’oro – using fresh and sourdough yeast

  

  A full, laminated rich and delicious Pan D’Oro recipe using a sourdough starter enlivened with fresh yeast. This tricky and complex recipe is timed to fit around my working life (so you don’t have to be chained to the kitchen to complete this). An ultimate tick-off-my-bucket-list bake

  Ink Sugar Spice

  December 7, 2016

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Christmas, Festive, Food, Italian, Patisserie, Winter

  Christmas, Festive, Italian, Pan d’oro, pandoro, sourdough, yeast