Apostasy (/əˈpɒstəsi/; Greek: ἀποστασία, translit. apostasía, is the formal abandonment of, or renunciation of a...
Bread recipes
Pain de Campagne
I have for some time laboured under the twin beliefs that everyone who worked their own kitchen should fashion some...
Breakfast Baps
“A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde Whilst revisiting a charming recipe with...
Simple Bread Rolls
Some unusual things turn up when you’re looking for something elsewhere. Advancing shades of Don Quixote I fear. I was...
Potato Focaccia
“It was only in the 1990’s that those soupy dragons, the Delias, the Nigellas and the Jamies, burst through the double...
Flatbread. Coca De Azúcar con Piñones y Anís
If Britain was regarded as the grain sack of the Roman Empire, then Spain was its bakery. Of all the early provinces...
Focaccia
“Visitors to Liguria may perhaps be classified into six main groups; the fashionable, the ultra-fashionable, and the...
Irish Oatmeal Soda Bread
“All sorrows are less with bread” Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote As I have mentioned elsewhere on this site, the...
La Gougère
If Bordeaux wine estates are in the grip of absentee landlords and investment trusts, Burgundy (Bourgogne) in eastern...
Plain and Simple White Bread
"A technological triumph, factory bread may be. Taste it has none. Should it be called bread?" Elizabeth David....