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Cashing in on cupcakes
Food ingredients manufacturer Macphie is launching a range of Rainbow Frostings to help bakers capitalise on the cupcake boom.The range features a wide choice of colours and flavours, including vanilla, blueberry, lemon, caramel, chocolate, strawberry and mint. Rainbow Frostings are ready to use and have a rich, smooth texture that ...
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Tunnels channelled
Ask a baker if they want their bottom boosted and chances are they’ll run a mile. Those who stick around are clearly in the market for the latest in tunnel oven kit, as was the case with one leading bakery food manufacturer, which is installing Britain’s first Mecatherm three-deck tunnel ...
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Come and see us
Karen, our office manager, looks forward to meeting you at Bakers’ Fair in Bolton on 3 October, where the NAMB has a stand (No 22). Several directors will be around to answer queries or chat about problems facing our industry.Our chairman Mike Holling from Birds of Derby will ...
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MEPs vote in favour of country-of-origin food labelling
Compulsory country-of-origin food labelling came a step closer recently when MEPs voted in favour of the measure. Under the proposals, all pre-packed meat and meat product labels would have to show where livestock was born, reared and slaughtered.The move was welcomed by National Federation of Meat & Food Traders president ...
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Hot and cross at EU
NAMB members may have been concerned about reports that the EU is planning to outlaw the sale of goods as measured by units, insisting that all goods are sold by weight only. So the description of "four hot-cross buns", for example, would become illegal and be replaced with a catchy ...
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Dried fruit pricing
Coconut: Prices this year have continued to climb steadily and recently settled around 25% higher than at the start of this year.Raisins: The vine fruit markets have been experiencing something approaching meltdown over the past two months. Total crop has been downsized by over 20% and the rains during harvest ...
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Ethical oils
All bakery fats in Bako’s own-label Classic range are now made using ethically and sustainably produced palm oils.The buying group has sourced fully segregated and accredited palm oil and an independent fats processor to produce its boxed bakery fats. It said the move was in response to customer requests.The reformulated ...
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Wall’s extends into hot pies
Following its entry into the pastry category last year, sausage brand Wall’s is to launch a range of Fully Loaded Hot Pies next month.In-depth consumer research identified "key areas of consumer discontent in pie products", said the firm. These included too much pastry and not enough filling.Wall’s says its range ...
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Power flours
There’s a prevailing myth that a good baker should be able to craft all manner of excellence from a cheap bag of strong white flour, a mixer on its last legs and an ancient temperamental deck oven just months from being scrapped. If you’re in that situation, tell your bakery ...
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New threat to ready-to-eat foods?
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has now responded to the Pennington Report on the E.Coli 0157 outbreak in Wales in 2005 by issuing a consultation document entitled ’Reducing the Risk from E.Coli 0157 controlling cross contamination’. To view the consultation yourself go to www.food.gov.uk/consultations.The FSA has concluded that the ...
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A frenzy of frosting
National Cupcake Week came to a sweet conclusion on Sunday, with British Baker having whipped up the UK into a frosting frenzy. The idea behind the launch of the week last year was to support the trade by driving footfall into bakeries. We did this with a media and PR ...
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M&S takes half measures for new loaf
Marks & Spencer has launched a ’Half & Half Super Soft Loaf’, which contains both sliced white and wholemeal bread.Chris Seaby, product developer for bakery at M&S, told British Baker that the development of the loaf had come about following customer research, which revealed that they were buying white bread ...
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Italian innovation
Autumn is an important season for exhibitions and Italy’s major bakery show, AB Tech Expo, takes place at Milan’s massive Rho Fiera showground from 23-27 October. If you catch the shuttle bus from the airport directly to the show (see details page 40), don’t forget to ask the driver to ...
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Jiffy has van with a plan
Jiffy Trucks has launched its latest snack food delivery vehicle the Jiffy Estilo, based on the Citroën Dispatch.The Estilo holds a fridge, with extra shelving for back-up stock behind double-glazed units to retain the temperature.At the side there is a refrigerated buffet-carrier, which can hold nine industry standard bakery ...
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Mouthing off
"Remember those heady days when the ultimate culinary treat was coming home from school and tucking into a tasty crisp sandwich?"the Asda marketing team share an insight into their formative years, while launching a crisp sandwich or Crispwich, if you will. The limited-edition snack, which retails at 60p, sees ...
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Take Pidy
What rhymes with brunch? How about drunch and slunch? No, you are not reading Stop the Week, these two are for real.Apparently, after inventing brunch breakfast and lunch the Americans have now come up with drunch, to signify dinner and lunch, and slunch for supper and lunch. Robert ...
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Playing by the rules
Although the holiday season is nearly over, every year we get the same problems. "A member of my staff has announced her husband has booked a week’s holiday", but they haven’t gone through the right channel and it isn’t convenient.1. If you have Company Rules on how to book a ...
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In Short
NAMB CE to stayNational Association of Master Bakers chief executive Gill Brooks-Lonican will now not be retiring from her post next year. The Board has asked her to stay on and keep up the good work.Fraud warning Bakery manufacturer Speedibake informed BB that shortly after reading the ’fraud alert’ story ...
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Cake-loving linguistsThose wanting to brush up on their French- and Spanish-speaking skills while eating cake, can now do so at The Phoenix Bakery Café in Weymouth. The Love Learning adult education courses are to take place in the café from September. There is an introductory price of £9 per class, ...