All British Baker articles in June 2006 – Page 2
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NewsGrieves challenges bakers to safeguard their future
Former bakery tutor and past chairman of the British Society of Baking Jean Grieves has called on the industry to re-evaluate its thinking on training, with a view to retaining traditional skills and bringing another generation of bakers to the fore.Speaking at the Bakers Benevolent Society ball at the Mandarin ...
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NewsA simple country baker
Flicking through some back issues of British Baker recently, I came across a point made by the editor Sylvia Macdonald. She argued in February that the Government pays little heed to comments made by trade associations with memberships of less than three thousand.This made me think – where does that ...
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CPRE study backs case for small shops
A new study confirms that local shops flourish once superstore plans are turned down.The Real Choice report, by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Plunkett Foundation, found the number of local and regional food suppliers in and around Saxmundham, East Suffolk, had increased from 300 to 370 ...
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Romanian baker seeks UK ally
An Anglo-Romanian company plans to lead a full-scale assault on the Eastern European country’s bakery market. Bucharest-based Snack Attack will open a 50,000sq ft state-of-the-art sandwich factory there by the end of 2007, which is set to increase production from 10,000 to 100,000 sandwiches a day in the next three ...
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Improvement in air delivery
Eurobake (Bolton, Lancs) has devised a new design of retarder-prover, incorporating an innovative evaporator, which it claims gives greater energy and production efficiency and provides bakers with improved dough conservation control and proving.A combined defrosting and heating element on the new evaporator offers more stable and sustainable temperatures, says the ...
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Puratos adds natural vanilla to Belcolade
Belcolade, the real Belgian chocolate supplied by Puratos, now includes natural vanilla in all of its recipes. Comprising over 200 different compounds, natural vanilla delivers a sweet, fresh flavour that carries to the finished product,” says Matt Crumpton, marketing director of Puratos UK. “Being natural it offers a premium image ...
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ISA takes Action on display
New from ISA (UK) are the ISA Action and ISA Music impulse/island cabinets for frozen and chilled products. These are the latest additions to the ISA One range. The new Action is designed for the hot-spot display of frozen food and ice creams. Replacing the ISA ET 70 and ...
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NewsViewpoint
It is just so ironic. Craft bakers tell me every day that they cannot recruit enough good staff or enthusiastic youngsters willing to learn the professions of bakery and confectionery. Supermarket in-stores too are facing a dearth of recruits. In the meantime we have vast swathes of youths leaving college ...
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NewsA right mouthful
A bid to lose some “bakery baggage” has seen Croydon-based craft baker Coughlans continue to roll out its rebranding as Munch and, in the process, scoop the Baker Sandwich Maker of the Year at the Sammies for the second year running.The rebrand has given Coughlans the confidence to try new ...
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US wheat industry sees lower plantings
The wheat industry in the US is said to be in crisis as many farmers are no longer planting the crop because it is unprofitable, according to Reuters European Business Wire.Both domestic use and exports of US wheat have been suffering from technology that has increased the shelf life of ...
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NewsWork Experience
Chris Beaney, owner of Beaney’s bakery based in Strood, Kent, is evangelical about offering work experience. He liaises closely with local schools to open his business to about three pupils a year for one and two-week placements. This has proved so successful that he has gone on to give about ...
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NewsFreshways recognises sandwich excellence
Walsall resident and native of Bengal Rina Kundu has carried off the latest trophy from Wolverhampton-based Freshway Foods for her Bengal Chicken Do-Piaza Sandwich.Four years ago Alan and Graham Wright, who head Freshway Foods, which supplies sandwiches and fillings to four out of the UK’s top 10 retailers, established the ...
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UK eggs rule the roost in Europe, says survey
Egg production in the UK has been confirmed as among the safest in the world, according to an EU survey. The survey tested the environment (not the hens or eggs) of egg-laying flock holdings between October 2004 and September 2005. Nearly 90% of UK holdings were found to be completely ...
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NewsWorld Cup window display wins over fans
CHESHIRE-BASED craft chain Arthur Chatwin is capitalising on the football World Cup tournament with dedicated window displays and sales of specially decorated bakery products across its stores.“We’re supplying fondant fancies, fairy buns and small frangipanes with England’s white and red cross on top, and gingerbread men sporting an England football ...
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Panini concept for Cuisine de France
In-store bakery and food to go supplier Cuisine de France has launched new bread carriers, for hot or cold sandwich fillings, include three softbake baguettes in plain, multiseed and onion and nigella flavours. The baguettes are thaw-and-serve and have an extended shelf life.Six thaw-and-serve bagels have also joined the firm’s ...
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Middle East to tuck into British favourite
Bollin Dale Engineering is supplying a complete line for production of Jaffa Cake style biscuits to a customer in Iran.The 1.2-metre wide line, valued at £1.3m, is on its way to the factory and will be installed and commissioned by Macclesfield-based Bollin Dale. It will have an output of 750kg ...
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In Brief
A noise study carried out on the shop floor of Brace’s two bakeries confirmed that workers should wear ear defenders, which have been distributed to all operatives. Visitors will be given disposable earplugs when entering the shop floor areas.Tortilla manufacturer Discovery Foods has achieved Investors in People status. Formed in ...
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Production boost from icing sugar switch
TALGARTH BAKERY has switched from block fondant to British Sugar’s Celebration Icing Sugar for fondant icing. The change, says Talgarth general manager Mike Morgan, has increased production and process efficiency at the Glamorgan plant, which doubled in size in December. Block fondant took 20-25 minutes to prepare, but Celebration ...
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NewsBiofuel demand hits rapeseed oil prices
Bakeries are counting the cost of rising rapeseed oil prices as the oil is increasingly used as a biodiesel fuel. Prices have risen 25% over the last 12 months from, typically, £400 per tonne to £500 per tonne. And the increases are set to continue. Rapeseed oil is used, primarily, ...
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NewsBattle of the pies in parallel World Cup
Don’t despair if England’s football team falters in the World Cup. Its steak and ale pie is likely to prove an easy winner in the Pie World Cup, which pits 32 ‘national’ pies produced by the Square Pie company against each other.Square Pie’s last Pie World Cup saw the England ...