mad about baking

Hot Cross Buns are the Easter treat in Britain. You’ll find them in every last supermarket. Traditionally eaten only at Easter, they are now available pretty much all year round. However, the smell of the spicy buns coming from the oven is such a treat, so give it a go and make them yourself!

A nice and easy sourdough bread to start you off with. It’s a mixture of rye and malted flour (sold in the UK as ‘Malthouse’, ‘Granary’ or ‘Harvester’ flour). You will need to produce a starter culture and a production sourdough before you can start.

OK, you’ve hopefully made a nice active sourdough starter, next you need to make the actual sourdough or ’sour’ for short. The sour is the basis on which your actual sourdough bread dough are based. With the one sourdough you can make an endless variety of breads.

Ever wanted to try your hand at a sourdough bread, but thought it was to complex or time-consuming? Well, it isn’t. True, it will take a few days to get it going, but it won’t really need much attention and it only takes a couple of minutes to do the initial feeding. I actually think it’s easier to make a sourdough rye than a white yeast-raised loaf. So give it a go and be amazed!