Mainly Baking

This post should really be called Date and Coffee Loaves, as the recipe makes 2 x 1lb loaves. One loaf was sliced and frozen for future use,...

Regular readers will know that yeast and I don't get on together well, which makes it all the more surprising that I haven't come ac...

In line with government recommendations, I'm trying to shop as infrequently as possible. Where I live, supermarket shopping is the least...

The only time I get to make a large cake these days is if I can bake for someone else. At the end of last year I joined the Friends of my lo...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a refrain often heard, and this time I decided to take heed. Through some unexpected ...

I baked two loaves to take one to each of my children, just before the Covid-19 lockdown measures became more stringent. At the time the foo...

After deciding to leave two bananas to ripen enough to use in a cake, I realised that I've never made a basic simple banana bread/cake...