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This week I was very luck to get a chance to see the inside of Pitstone windmill.      

A few years ago when I took up baking again I became very interested in sourdough. After much time and effort I was getting good results. While I was baking excellent freeform sourdough I realised that I had missed out … Continue reading →

Last weekend I headed off to Caernarfon to meet up with some friends for a bit of baking fun. Mick of Bethedsa Bakers fame had organized the gathering as an off shoot to the annual Bethesda baking weekends. I always like … Continue reading →

I made these yesterday with Dove Farms Malthouse flour.

This traditional bread oven is behind a row of farm cottages built in the 1860’s in Bedfordshire. There was one oven and one washhouse to serve the two rows of cottages that make up the hamlet.  The oven chamber is … Continue reading →