All British Baker articles in August 2010 – Page 2
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Festive focus
Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference dessert line for Christmas features 14 new or improved-recipe products, including a Belgian Chocolate Brownie Torte and a Toffee Pecan Roulade. It is also launching several Taste the Difference chocolate desserts, including: Gift Cake a square sponge base topped with a rich mousse, laced with ...
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Easier mix
Dawn Foods has added a range of add water-only mixes to its Baker’s Select line.The branded range features chocolate, coffee, vanilla, farmhouse, toffee indulgence (with real toffee pieces) and orange, strawberry and lemon varieties with real fruit pieces.The Baker’s Select range of premixes has been designed for those wanting an ...
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Reporting In Don’t neglect the training
Matthew MayAlliance for Bakery Students and Trainees RepresentativeAs we are all too aware, the economy is, currently, still in the process of "realigning" itself. In the news recently, we have been told that the rate of inflation is above the government’s target; public and private sectors are having to reduce ...
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Just desserts
Launceston-based Kensey Foods feels that the combination of its culture, facilities and the quality of its products helped it win the Bakery Food Manufacturer of the Year category, sponsored by ADM Milling, at the Baking Industry Awards last year. Part of the Samworth Brothers empire, the Cornish firm produces own-label ...
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Merit seen in despatch
Merit Technology has launched new software, which it hopes will transform the despatch-packing process for bakeries.The SOM Despatch-Packing Module is designed to eliminate human error in warehouses, by tracking every item loaded on to vans and cross-checking them against the orders that need to be filled.The system can display either ...
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Question over quality as rain delays wheat harvest
Recent rainfall has delayed the UK harvest, with over 40% still to come in and the quality of the wheat now in question.
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CRC and you
The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), a new carbon emissions trading scheme that will affect large organisations in the UK, started in April 2010. It is primarily aimed at commercial and public sector organisations and is intended to sit alongside Climate Change Agreements (CCAs).Firstly the Environment Agency (EA) has written to ...
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Cost-conscious coffee
While having trained baristas is no doubt a sexy addition to a high street set-up, it’s not every operator’s cup of tea. For those that can’t afford the time to drill their staff in distinguishing their single estate Guatemalan roast from their Kopi Luwak coffee bean (that’s the ultra-premium semi-digested ...
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Caught in the web
1 A new baking movement called ’Blokes who bake’ emerges in New Zealand, "so blokes can get recipes, share recipes and bake their arses off, safe in the knowledge that other blokes are baking too" (we didn’t know New Zealand men were so insecure about their sexuality)...www.blokeswhobake.co.nz/gidday2 A blog all ...
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NewsChristmas Pudding Cake Pops
Recipe by The Tiny Cake Company Alongside cupcakes and whoopie pies, another American trend that appears to be making it big this side of the pond, is cake pops. These treats are now cropping up in outlets all over London, including Harvey Nichols, supplied by POP Bakery, and Selfridges Food ...
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Traditionals with a twist GINGERBREAD by Fiona Burrell
There are many recipes for gingerbread, varying from decorated biscuits that are made into shapes, as in gingerbread men, to pale dry-ish cakes, which need a good thick spreading of butter or dark, moist sticky cakes, which last well and do not need any help in the way of icing ...
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Brand Clinic
Don Williams, CEO of brand and design consultancy Pi Global discusses the influence of the boutique on the mainstreamThere are many ways to make money. Two of the most popular are: a) making things in large volumes, which appeal to a lot of people, and selling them cheap; and b) ...
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Bonzer ideas for cups
The new range of Bonzer Cup Dispensers from Mitchell & Cooper can help remove clutter from the service counter, while preventing wastage and improving hygiene.Made from high-quality food-grade stainless steel and designed and built in the UK, the new dispensers can be both wall-mounted (Gravity Series) or recessed directly into ...
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Equality Bill - some late changes
1. Pregnant women: pregnancy becomes a protected characteristic in its own right (similar to age, disability etc) instead of being lumped in with sex. If the Bill is passed, it will be directly discriminatory to treat a woman unfavourably because of her pregnancy, pregnancy-related illness or absence on maternity leave ...
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Wheat genome code has been cracked
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have succeeded in decoding the genome of wheat in a breakthrough which could help crop breeders increase the yield of British wheat varieties.
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Christmas baking
Don’t worry if you haven’t thought about Christmas yet, you won’t be alone. But the months can whizz by so fast that, before you know it, it’s January and you’re regretting not doing enough preparation. Time to put things right and make it the most successful month ever.The key ...
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Britain’s Most Bog-standard Bakery Show
2010 was shaping up to be a golden year for baking on TV, as commissioners finally cottoned on to baking’s rise in popularity. Alas, following the disastrous showing for bakers in Mary Queen of Shops, The Great British Bake-Off, currently showing on BBC2, looks like another damp squib. "There was ...
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Bagged bites
CSM (UK) is offering a ReadiBake Mini-Bite Grab Bag, which can be filled with its range of mini-bite options, including Rocky Road chocolate treats, brownies, shortbread and flapjacks.The bags can feature a single variety or a selection of the thaw-and-serve mini-bites, chosen by consumers. The bags are free to bakery ...
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Mix business and pleasure at the annual get-together
NAMB BUSINESS/SOCIAL WEEKEND 27-28 NOVEMBER 2010The NAMB is returning to the fantastic Menzies Welcombe Hotel and Spa in Stratford-Upon-Avon and is happy to announce that the hotel has held the very favourable rates they gave us for 2009.Sir Mike Darrington (formerly of Greggs) and Alette Addison from the Food ...
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United Sats of America
With all the talk of food prices rising, we need to bulk up while we can to sustain us through the tough times. We thought the deep-fried Eccles cake couldn’t be topped until the US strutted back on court and casually slam-dunked the winner in the sat fat wars. Last ...