All British Baker articles in July 2009 – Page 5
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New sponsor joins NCW
Baking cases producer Chevler has joined Puratos as a sponsor of National Cupcake Week (NCW).Sales director Mike Wescomb said that the firm is proud to sponsor NCW and is happy to support all creative bakers taking part to develop new and innovative ideas."As the UK’s leading manufacturer of baking ...
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Tameside student wins Hovis scholarship
The Hovis Scholarship Award has been given to Gabrielle Baxter from Tameside College, who will get the chance to obtain first-hand bakery experience working with industry professionals.The scholarship, created by Rank Hovis, is awarded to one student a year for an all-expenses-paid learning experience. Baxter will start work at Southampton ...
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Hot topics
A link between the Bank of England lending rate and chocolate rice crispies must seem fairly tenuous. But at the British Society of Baking’s June conference, which took place at its new venue, Ardencote Manor in Warwickshire, all became clear.The line-up of speakers included Graeme Chaplin from the Bank of ...
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Raising the game
King Canute is best known for turning back the waves. Warburtons, by contrast, just had to raise the ground. And it had the benefit of modern technology.Its new bakery at Bristol, which officially opened on 30 June, is the latest in a chain designed to give the company national distribution ...
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Mixing it up for foodservice
BakeMark has launched a new range of multi-purpose Craigmillar brand mixes for foodservice. The four-strong range available is: plain muffin & cake mix, chocolate muffin & cake mix, pizza & bread mix and scone mix, and is suitable for vegetarians.The mixes contain no hydrogenated fat, colours or flavours ...
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Food in the news
According to Verdict Consulting, the price of a traditional English breakfast has fallen for the first time in a year. For a family of four, it now costs an average of £16.01 compared to £16.06 last month.Research by Mintel’s Global Products Database suggests the economic downturn has not created a ...
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Untangling fibre
In these increasingly health-conscious times, we might expect fibre-containing bakery products to do especially well. But sales data tells a rather different story.In its June 2009 category report, Kingsmill quotes Nielsen figures that put total year-on-year value growth at 6.5% for bakery as a whole. Yet, while sliced wholemeal did ...
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Spice rack: fennel seeds
Fennel seeds are produced by both the feathery annual herb and the bulbous perennial Florence fennel, which is eaten as a vegetable. The flowers produce a mass of seeds, which are quite sweet, and the flavour is similar to aniseed or liquorice. They are used in fish soups and stews ...
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Top-end retailers to get a dose of Just Desserts
Yorkshire-based baker and patissier Just Desserts has launched several new products and hopes to tackle the top-end retail sector, following substantial investment at its Shipley factory.The firm took over a unit that became available next to its factory last year, and spent around £50k doubling the factory’s floor space to ...
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Reporting in Don’t ignore flavour factor in salt debate
I have been ’Reporting In’ for about five years and, in that time, have seen a gradual evolution of technical issues and opportunities for the British baking sector.The link between food and health has grown from interest to, dare I say, near obsession. Every food product or ingredient now seems ...
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Insomnia defies gloom with promotional deals
Irish coffee shop chain Insomnia says recession-busting deals linking coffee and baked goods are driving sales, with over half its business now coming from promotions. It plans to continue the tactic throughout 2009.The Dublin-based 52-shop chain has run a series of successful discounts and ’meal deals’ since the onset of ...
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Training dates for your diary
7-9 SeptemberGoing ProfessionalLocation: Panary, Cann Mills, DorsetContact: 01722 711 760www.panary.co.uk7-11 SeptemberPractical Biscuit TechnologyLocation: Campden BRI, Chipping Campden,GloucestershireContact: 01386 842104 (Training Dept)www.campden.co.uk15-17 SeptemberYeast: the Key to FermentationLocation: Lesaffre International Baking Centre, Lille, FranceContact: +33 320 148 013www.lesaffre.com16-17 SeptemberSourdoughLocation: Panary, Cann Mills, DorsetContact: 01722 711 760www.panary.co.uk19-20 SeptemberContinental BreadsLocation: Panary, Cann Mills, ...
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Chocolate dreams
John Slattery, master patissier and chocolatier, and current winner of the Baking Industry Award for Special Achievement, has no intention of resting on his laurels.At the recent British Society of Baking (BSB) conference, he told delegates that shop customers like to experience ’theatre’. This is why he spent a tense ...
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Cops cut to the chase
Forget cops and robbers, cops and doughnuts are two words that have gone together since the dawn of time. And this is now the name of a new doughnut shop in Clare City, Michigan - owned, that’s right, by cops. Only in America.This joyous cohesion came about when the Clare ...
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Keen interest in troubled Coffee Republic chain
Coffee Republic’s holding company, Coffee Republic plc, has gone into administration follo-wing the closure of 10 out of the 20 Coffee Republic (UK) Ltd-owned stores, which has resulted in 66 redundancies.The failure of the holding company comes after its subsidiaries - Coffee Republic (UK), Coffee Republic Franchising and Goodbean - ...
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It’s a wrap for cakes
Country Choice has launched a new range of thaw-and-sell wrapped cake slices under the Bake & Bite retail brand. The cakes are being targeted for impulse purchases and can be displayed in one of Country Choice’s impulse confectionery units. They are available in six flavours: carrot cake; iced cherry & ...
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Ovens move as Interbake buys IBE
Production of Thomas Collins Vectair Ovens has moved to Lancashire, following Interbake’s acquisition of Independent Bakery Equipment (IBE).Interbake director David Dunne told British Baker that he decided to buy the Bristol-based company, which has a history dating back to the 1890s, because its ovens are energy- efficient and well-suited ...
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Jobs saved as Coombs Hampshires finds buyer
Leicestershire bakery chain Coombs Hampshires has been bought out of administration for an undisclosed sum, saving up to 150 jobs.The business and assets have been purchased by Adam Baxter, who had been running the bakery with his father, Keith, prior to its collapse. However, six of its 26 stores are ...
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Real Bread campaigns for support
The Real Bread Campaign plans to recruit more craft bakers to its cause by launching a practical guide on how to cut additives in commercially made loaves.Raising support among craft bakers will be a key responsibility for a new National Lottery-funded campaign co-ordinator, due to be appointed shortly, said campaign ...
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Book Review: Pie - A Global History
Reading the bit of blurb on the back cover stating that: "The seventeenth-century ’Mermaid pie’ was a way of flirting with the idea of cannibalism", you wouldn’t be blamed for wondering what sort of book this was. It is in fact an all-encompassing look at the world of pies in ...