Does Franco Manca stand up to the Bristol pizza heavyweights?
The Pizza Dip Problem – AN UPDATE!
Honestly, I could wax lyrical for hours about the pizza in Bristol. We have nailed every conceivable version from the £5 carby saviour of a drunken Friday night, to chain waggon wheels you should never buy without a voucher. The simple sourdoughs and Italian thin crusts leading finally to the 72-hour fermented luxury pizzas with …
Soughdough Hot Cross Buns, I make the mistakes so you don’t have to.
As there is nothing more dull than relentless positivity, I thought I'd share with you a recent failure of mine. Of course, like most of my failures the dreaded sourdough was involved, but this time I was at least prepared for the experiment to go a bit wrong. I've been nailing traditional white, sourdough loaves …
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How to bake sourdough with The Thoughtful Bread Company, Bath
Forget everything you think you know about baking bread. Think you need warm water? You don't. Think you need a warm place to prove dough? You don't. Think stirring sourdough starter with a metal spoon will kill it? It won't. I headed over to The Thoughtful Bread Company in Bath to take part in a …
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Diary of a Sourdough starter and why we can never be friends
After some mild deliberation I decided to try sourdough again, the last starter eventually gave up and died. Well, I think it did? When things go grey and smell bad they are usually dead, my time working in a mortuary taught me that, and to be honest, I was glad. Of the 8 or so …
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