All News articles – Page 507
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Veg keeps cakes moist
A range of low-calorie gluten- and lactose-free cakes has been launched exclusively in Selfridges.Star of Channel 4’s Cook Yourself Thin, Harry Eastwood has teamed up with American entrepreneur Ashley Maddox to launch Petit Pois, a range of cakes made using vegetables instead of butter and some of the sugar.The cakes ...
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Country Choice targets convenience stores
Country Choice has launched an entry-level bakery concept, aimed at small convenience stores.The concept includes a compact four-tray oven, freezer, cooling stand, baking trays and POS pack, as well as four wicker display baskets with chalk-style header panels to communicate the ’freshly baked in-store today’ message, disposable shelf-liners, and shelf-talkers. ...
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Dawn Foods gets set to purchase Unifine F&Bi
Dawn Foods looks set to acquire Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients, following the announcement in December that Unifine’s parent company Royal Cosun was investigating its potential sale.The intended transaction would include the acquisition of all seven of the pastry ingredients business Unifine’s manufacturing sites, 10 sales offices in Europe and ...
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Dickens’ Delight
I created this recipe based on traditional French brioches, to make a UK product that can be served all year long and especially for seasonal occasions. It is a sweet Viennese pastry using leavened dough a sweet and soft delicacy filled with a traditional British Christmas mixture of fruits, ...
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What’s your device?
The best gadgets for the bakery trade come from overseas at least that is what Richard Waterfield, chairman of Lancashire-based bakery group Waterfields believes.Waterfield visits a couple of exhibitions each year, where he looks for gadgets that will help give the 47-store operation a point of difference. "There is ...
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Living the dream
It must have taken a lot of guts and a very understanding wife for a man to transform his home into a bakery in order to follow his dream. But in late 2006, that’s exactly what Patrick Moore did.Knocking through from his kitchen to his dining room and ...
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Handy packs for Energie
Bakery ingredients supplier Gb Plange is to supply its flagship Energie range in a new convenient pack size.The bread improver range is now available in handy 12kg bags, helping bakers minimise stock holding while maximising stock flow and cash flow,Gb Plange general manager Marie Parnell said: "The new convenient 12kg ...
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Rewarding staff for great service
A common question when I visit bakeries is how to keep staff motivated and providing good service. The answer? Reward them. If you’re going to empower your team to be successful, you need to reward them if they do something well.Spotting good service is easy for both customer and manager. ...
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The laws of taste
January marked a major milestone in flavourings legislation, with the entry into force of a number of new measures resulting from the EU Flavourings Regulation, (EC) No 1334/2008 on flavourings and certain food ingredients with flavouring properties for use in and on foods, adopted in December 2008. This marks the ...
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Quantum leap
British Bakels has launched what it claims is a breakthrough in emulsifier-free clean-label bread improvers, that delivers a cost reduction alongside crumb benefits. The new Quantum improvers are said to produce doughs that are easy to handle and process, offering a softer crumb and improved yield by allowing the dough ...
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Tiptree pushes new lines
Tiptree Patisserie, part of Wilkin & Sons group, has launched a range of cake bars and flapjacks targeted at the coffee shop, hotels and deli sectors. The products, branded Yours to Enjoy, include five cakes and 10 bars.Wrapped cakes, which have a shelf-life of two weeks, include lemon drizzle, coffee ...
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Mouthing off
Foods such as white bread release the sugar more quickly than their wholegrain counterparts and too much sugar is associated with energy slumps, which mean you won’t have the energy for sex"Helen Bond of the British Dietetic Association draws a spurious conclusion, again in The Daily Mail"I think we ...
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Royal no-no
Wedding cakes Wills and Kate will not be commissioning No.1: pork pie wedding cakesYes, it’s the latest trend in the north east. Three tiers of pig and pastry to satisfy a savoury palette. Devised by Tyneside family butchers Dicksons, the business has seen rising demand for the 11.5kg creation. "Initially ...
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In Short
Get to Bakers’ FairBakers’ Fair Spring takes place this weekend Sunday 10 April, so don’t forget to register to attend. Open from 9.30am-4pm, the event will feature a whole host of different exhibitors, talks and demonstrations on The Stage, and the National Association of Master Bakers’ Bakery Competitions ...
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BSB conferenceIf you have not already done so, do not forget to book your place at the annual British Society of Baking conference, which takes place from 11-12 April. Pre-dinner drinks and dinner take place at the Village Hotel, in Ashton-under-Lyne, and the conference programme the next day at Tameside ...
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Greggs cuts jobsBakery chain Greggs is to cut up to 55 jobs in Cumbria as it opens a new factory in September. The bakery in Penrith will specialise in confectionery products, replacing two older bakery sites in the centre of the town. Chief executive Ken McMeikan said: "We are saddened ...
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In my world
When originally asked to write a series of articles for this publication, one of the expressions I would have bet I would never use was "I agree with a proposed European Union rule change." What is more, in this instance, I would encourage them to bring it in as quickly ...
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Worshipful Co offers opportunities for Italian trip
The Worshipful Company of Bakers is offering successful bakers the chance to attend a three-day course in Italy, through its annual scholarships, bursaries and accolade opportunities.
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Bakehouse offers tips on 2011 bakery trends
Value for money, differentiation, and nostalgia versus new, are just some of the key trends emerging for retailers in 2011, according to Bakehouse.
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Town Mill set for Eden opening
Dorset-based organic artisan baker The Town Mill Bakery is behind the opening of a new outlet – two counties away at the Eden Project in Cornwall.