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Bling’s the thing
Time was when putting together a celebration cake was a logistical issue in white icing and dried fruit. Track forward a few decades and while logistics are still very much in evidence, the ingredients have changed beyond recognition. Nowadays, heavy alternatives to cake have been developed, which are capable of ...
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Book review
Top 100 tea/coffee recipesby Mary Ward,Gazelle Books, £12.50Latte, espresso, cappuccino, green tea, herb tea, blah blah. If you have a similarly yawn-worthy drinks menu that’s seldom spiced up with a seasonal special, then you could draw inspiration from these two books. Among the coffees are an iced cardamom coffee and ...
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Traditionals with a twist Tea bread by Fiona Burrell
Tea breads are very simple to make, but need a little planning ahead. They are traditionally made by soaking sultanas, raisins and sugar in Indian tea overnight, before mixing in eggs, spices and flour. The Welsh form of this is called Bara Brith or ’Speckled Bread’. As it contains no ...
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Fit for purpose: Budgeting a store fit
Richard Hamilton of HamiltonBIG, a creative retail and brand consultancy, considers the costs of building a storeThis month we’re looking at the big question how much does putting your ideas into practice cost? Budget, budget, budget and then add 10% is a golden rule in building a store. To ...
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Busy time at Europain
Europain, France’s big bakery show, took place from 6-10 March in Paris. As British Baker went to press, most stands were reporting good business and the aisles were busy with visitors. The show now takes place alternate years and follows on five months after IBA and two months before the ...
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My Career: Lee Smith
Marketing manager for Mr Kipling cakes, part of Premier FoodsWhat do you do day-to-day?I work from Premier Foods’ head office in St Alban’s and my main task is to help manage the growth of the Mr Kipling brand, at the same time as modernising it for today’s consumers.Our key target ...
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Chevler feeds football fever
UK baking cases manufacturer Chevler has launched a new range of football-themed baking cases in convenient pack sizes. The move is designed to help craft bakers and small cake makers take full advantage of UK and World Cup-related spending, expected in May, June and July.Chevler MD Stuart Whelan said: "Football ...
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Coffee’s rise of the machines
Congratulations to John Gordon of coffee accessory supplier Gorilla Tampers in London, who was judged the UK’s best barista at the recent UK Barista Championship, after impressing with his drink-making dexterity. But without wishing to put a damper on this tamper, Stop the Week has seen a glimpse of the ...
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New course in management
London South Bank University (LSBU) is to launch the UK’s first honours level degree in Baking Technology Management.The one-year, full-time "top-up" programme is set to start in September and is designed predominantly for students who have successfully completed LSBU’s two-year, full-time foundation degree.Units covered will include Applied Bakery Science, Artisan ...
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Diary Dates
18-19 March 2010BCCC Annual ConferenceLocation: Ettington Chase Conference Centre, Stratford-Upon-Avonjackie.holland@fdf.org.uk21-24 March 2010Baking Industry Exhibition (BIE)Location: Birmingham NEC, UKwww.bakingindustryexhibition.co.uk21- 24 March, 2010Food & Drink Logistics ShowLocation: Birmingham NEC, UKhttp://fdlogisticsshow.co.uk/page/home.html
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Dried fruit pricing
Coconut: As coconut starts to look increasingly good value, we would expect to see demand increase and prices start to creep up. UK prices have increased by between 5-10% over the past one to two months and this trend seems highly likely to continue in the short- to medium term.Raisins: ...
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Sainsbury’s embarks on major training initiative
Sainsbury’s is to open the UK’s first supermarket bakery college in an ambitious drive to train hundreds of staff.The college has been set up in partnership with flour supplier Whitworths, and is based at one of Whitworths bakeries in Welling-borough. Rather than using one of the usual colleges or universities, ...
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Trade snapshot: a view from Europain
Seen in the Innovations section of Europain, the latest flaky idea from France Bread Flakes! France’s five-day bakery show, for bread, confectionery and chocolate closed on Wednesday, 10 March. So could flakes catch on? Well, if it is a toss-up between toast or bread flakes, at least bread is ...
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Extraordinary rendition
Thanks to our readers once more for their response to our caption competition last week. Kudos to Luke Bray of Finsbury Park in London for unmasking the systematic outrage perpetrated on gingerbread folk, with this entry: "The US administration admitted that the CIA’s coffee breaks had gone a little too ...
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Martins Food Group
Newton Heath and Radcliffe, Manchester Machinery: two 4m downflow booths, designed to contain dust, such as flour, over large areas of emission Why installed: to control flour and ingredient dust at the point of weighing in preparation for onward baking How it came about: after discussions with Flextraction, the company ...
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Honeytop Speciality Foods
Dunstable, Bedfordshire Machinery: a bespoke modular plastic belt conveying system Why installed: to integrate new packaging equipment for crumpets in production halls How it came about: Honeytop Speciality Foods wanted Astec Conveyors to design a conveying system from the discharge of the flow-wrappers in the production hall, through to the ...
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Food-safe sanitisers
The Country Range Group has expanded its professional range of cleaning products for 2010, with the addition of a food-safe sanitiser and a heavy-duty degreaser, both in five-litre bottles. It has also launched a range of napkins, in two sizes. These are initially available in white, but there are plans ...
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Train - or risk losing grants, warns SAMB
Bakers are being urged to make training a priority or face losing out on valuable grants, after changes to government funding kick in this spring. The Learning and Skills Council, which currently handles funding for adult skills-based education in England, is being disbanded at the end of March to make ...
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Handy pack for lemonade
Schweppes is to launch a new 500ml lemonade pack in March, which will be the first time the brand has been available in a handy takeaway format.The new pack will be launched in multiples and high-street retailers across the UK and will be supported by a national ’Try Me Free’ ...
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Inside Outsider
A bakery shortlisted for a restaurant and bar design competition? That’s a first! That bakery is the deliciously-camply monikered Outsider Tart a name inspired by partners and co-founders David Lesniak and serial entrepreneur David Muniz’s love of outsider art. The Chiswick-based US-style emporium is the only bakery to make ...