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This special Turkish pide flatbread, known as Ramazan Pidesi, is beautifully soft, light, and has an open textured crumb. It also looks stunning. With a distinctive diamond pattern and shiny glaze speckled with black and white seeds, you might think this focaccia-like bread is difficult. …Read more
Ham, Olive & Cheese Quick Bread is inspired by French cake salé or savoury cake. Easy but delicious, it’s made with self-raising flour and eggs so there’s no kneading and no proofing. Just mix up the ingredients and bake. With a moist and soft, cake-like texture, …Read more
Smoked Salmon Smørrebrød or Scandinavian-style open sandwich has a perfect combination of flavours and textures. Nutritious, wholesome rye bread, cream cheese with lemon, chives and/or dill, topped with crunchy fresh cucumber and rich smoked salmon. Embellish with a garnish of tangy quick-pickled onion, piquant capers, …Read more
Multigrain Seeded Bread Rolls, with a flavoursome combination of different grains and seeds, are both tasty and nutritious. With a substantial but not heavy crumb plus a crispy crust with nutty toasted seeds and oats, they’re perfect with your favourite fillings or to eat alongside …Read more
Courgette, Cheese & Basil Quick Bread is a simple but delicious savoury loaf. Instead of yeast, it’s made with self-raising flour and eggs, so there’s no kneading and no proofing. Just mix up the ingredients and bake straight away. With a moist and soft, cake-like …Read more
Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomato Bread has an intense tomato flavour with background notes of cheese, herbs, and garlic. Perfect for tearing into chunks to dip into olive oil and Balsamic vinegar, equally good alongside soups, salads, or made into sandwiches. After a couple of days, …Read more
Homemade Rye Crackers are thin, crunchy, and full of flavour. Inspired by Nordic knäckebröd, you can eat them as an open sandwich piled with tasty toppings, or enjoy as a simple cracker with cheese, pâté, dips, and savoury or sweet spreads. EASY HOMEMADE …Read more
Cinnamon Raisin Oat Bread is delicious sliced and spread with butter for breakfast, at teatime, or as a snack. A few days after baking, try it toasted to bring out even more flavour. Soaking the raisins before adding to the dough ensures they’re plump and juicy. …Read more
Simple White Bread or Split Tin Loaf is a classic that’s perfect for sandwiches and toast. In this recipe, the dough is enriched with a little butter to add flavour and aroma to this tasty bread with a soft crumb and lightly chewy exterior. With …Read more
Hash Brown Waffles are golden brown on the outside, soft, and tender within. So easy, but so delicious, enjoy them for breakfast or brunch with eggs, bacon or sausage, or as a side to your favourite meals. I use my mini waffle maker to cook …Read more
This Chilli Bean Cheese Toastie is inspired by the flavours of a Tex-Mex chilli but is put together in minutes. The warmly spicy bean, corn, onion, and melting cheese filling is a great contrast to the buttery, crunchy and crispy golden bread. Perfect on its …Read more
Soft White Baps with an attractive floury top are a British favourite. Whether you call them rolls, buns, or baps, these fluffy breads are perfect for simple, traditional fillings like egg, ham, cheese, burgers, or breakfast goodies like bacon or sausage. Enriched with a little …Read more
Sausage, Sage & Onion Cheese Scones just might be the ultimate savoury scone. Inspired by the flavours of sausage stuffing, there’s temptingly browned sausage meat, softly sauteed red onion plus a subtle herbiness. Put those in a classic cheese scone with a generous amount of …Read more
Easy Cheese Straws are a crispy and light, flaky, cheesy delight! Perfect as a party nibble with drinks or to eat alongside soups, they really are easy. Simply grate butter and cheese into seasoned flour and mix with iced water to make a dough. Chill …Read more
Yogurt Flatbreads are soft, pliable, versatile. And so quick and easy to make. No yeast means no kneading or proofing, so you can have a batch on the table in around 30 minutes. Just mix the ingredients into a dough (flour, baking powder, salt and …Read more
Smørrebrød are Danish-style open sandwiches so generously heaped with tempting toppings that you have to be eat them with knife and fork. In this post you’ll learn the steps to making delicious smørrebrød, which bread to use (and how to bake your own), ideas for …Read more
Cheese & Chilli Cornbread is an easy quick bread. No ordinary cornbread, my version has Cheddar cheese, sweetcorn kernels, tangy pickled chillies as well as chilli flakes. Light, fluffy and so tasty, it’s great as a side to chillies, soups, salads, bbq and other meals. …Read more
Cheese & Chorizo Quick Bread is ‘quick’ because it gets its rise from self-raising flour and eggs. That means no kneading and no proofing. You just mix up the ingredients in around ten minutes, then bake. With tangy Cheddar cheese, smoky chorizo, plus chives, this …Read more
Light Rye Bread is a tasty, nutritious loaf that’s a great all-rounder. Whether you want it for sandwiches, toast, or to eat alongside soups and salad, the tangy flavour from rye, plus the goodness of wholemeal wheat flour and lightness from white bread flour, is …Read more
Dark Rye Bread is something rather special. Full-flavoured with a light tangy sourness, its texture is firm without being heavy. Cut thinly, it’s perfect for Scandinavian-style open sandwiches. For this no-knead, overnight recipe, you’ll start the bread one or two days before you plan to …Read more
Bloomer Bread is a classic English loaf. Baked to a deep golden brown, the distinctive diagonal slashes along its length help make it extra crusty. Based on a simple white dough, my overnight, no-knead method means it’s even easier – and tastier – to make …Read more
Cheese & Bacon Loaf is a quick bread made with self-raising flour and eggs rather than yeast. That means no kneading, no proving, and minimal hands-on time. Just mix and bake. Soft, fluffy and cheesy inside, studded with little pieces of smoky bacon, the outer …Read more
Staffordshire Oatcakes are a regional speciality of The Potteries and north Staffordshire. Unlike the biscuity Scottish oatcake, these are soft, oatmeal pancakes that are lightly risen thanks to the inclusion of yeast. Most often eaten alongside or filled with traditional breakfast foods like sausage, bacon, …Read more
Oatmeal Bread is soft, tender, flavoursome, and so easy with my no-knead, overnight recipe. Delicious as a sandwich loaf and to eat with soups, or toast it to bring out the sweetish, nutty flavours. With more fibre than plain white bread and keeping you fuller for …Read more
Light Brioche Loaf is made with an easy, overnight dough enriched with butter, eggs, and milk. The result is a full flavoured loaf with a soft and fluffy crumb. Unlike most brioche recipes, you don’t need a stand mixer for this one and the kneading …Read more