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Soda Bread
Chemical raising agents began to replace yeast in cakes, pancakes and some breads during the 19th century and soda breads became particularly popular in Ireland. This recipe comes from Ellen Duffin, who lived in Belfast during the mid-1800s. Her handwritten recipe book has survived and is now stored in ...
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Get ready for Breakfast Week
Plans are well advanced for Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2008 from 20-26 January when farmers, producers and retailers are encouraged to celebrate the importance of a good breakfast.Rebecca Geraghty, assistant director of crop marketing at the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA), which is organising the event, said: "Farmhouse Breakfast Week is an ...
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n Peter’s Food Service, which makes Peter’s brand pies, pasties and sausage rolls, has been named Business of the Year at the Caerphilly Business Awards. The awards is designed to recognise business achievement in the County Borough of Caerphilly in South East Wales.n Food & Drink Expo 2008, an exhibition ...
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Commodities watch
The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) and Scotland Food & Drink has launched a new campaign called All About Oats, which aims to promote the health benefits of oats and encourage people to eat them."This campaign will help raise awareness and remind health professionals and consumers ’all about oats’. From coarse ...
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Dealing with disability
Even though the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) has been in force for over a decade, employers, employees, lawyers and medics still grapple with this highly complex area of law, in order to address the needs of those who are disabled within the employment arena.The DDA has its own definition of ...
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Dean’s joins tourist trail
Dean’s of Huntly has opened what is claimed to be Scotland’s first-ever shortbread visitor centre.The development, located just off the main Aberdeen-Inverness road, also includes a café-bistro and shop.Managing director Bill Dean commented: "We are currently producing shortbread 24 hours a day and visitors will get the chance to find ...
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Face to face with...
Q How did you come to be teaching bakery? A I was approached to do some part-time teaching on a day- release bakery programme in a craft bakery. Here, I learned all aspects of bakery and confectionery and was encouraged to study at the same time. I found that ...
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Factory re-opens
British Bakeries’ Bradford bakery operation has been given a reprieve after production had started being wound down in October.Owner Premier Foods had planned to close the bakery operation, leaving the site as a depot.Now, production will continue for the time being at the factory in Thornbury.Premier Foods said the decision ...
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Irish independents to struggle
Independent retailers in the Republic of Ireland are set to feel the squeeze from large international players tempted by the market’s impressive growth rates, according to a new report.Published by Verdict Research, part of Datamonitor, the report said that the Irish Republic’s E24.4bn retail market has grown by 34% ...
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Learning from one’s peers
Once again I have been on my travels, getting ideas from my successful peers. The latest of these have come from David Smart of Greenhalgh’s, based in Bolton.Neville, Janes Pantry MD, and I went up there for the day - Neville to learn as much as possible about making fresh ...
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Legislation watch
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has called on the government to lift barriers preventing smaller businesses competing for contracts from public authorities.Its argument has been strengthened by a report on public procurement from the Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee that said smaller firms were hampered by the complex ...
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Making the right match
Millers will repeatedly tell you: "There’s no such thing as poor quality wheat - there are just different specifications of wheat." Bakers, on the other hand, have been heard in recent months to exclaim, "This flour is rubbish!" (The expletives have been substituted to avoid upsetting our more sensitive readers.)Craft ...
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McDonald’s redesigns restaurants and menu
McDonald’s is revamping many of its restaurants with 200 outlets set to be ’re-imaged’ by the end of next year."We are giving the stores a more modern and contemporary feel," Lorraine Homer, media relations manager of McDonald’s UK, told British Baker. "Furnishings are more tactile and less plastic."The redesign programme, ...
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People
David ArmstrongBako UKIndependent buying group Bako UK, which serves the bakery, catering and foodservice sectors, has appointed David Armstrong as chief executive.Armstrong has 20 years’ experience within multiple grocers, such as Safeway, Marks & Spencer and the specialist off-licence business with names such as Thresher. In his role at Bako, ...
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Carr’s Flour profits crash as 80% wheat price rises hit
Carr’s announced this week that operating profit in its milling business more than halved over the last year, to £1.1m (from £2.5m) on sales up 2.4% to £57m (from £55.7m).The profit decrease reflected the delays of passing on the full impact of the 80% increase in the price of ...
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International activity
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the largest labour unions in the US, representing 1.4 million people, has announced a plan with Yucaipa Companies and Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU) to purchase Interstate Bakeries, helping to save more than 9,500 jobs at the bankrupt firm.In a statement, the Union ...
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Subway adds power to EIPC
The European Independent Purchasing Company (EIPC), owned by franchisees of sandwich chain Subway, says it is now one of the biggest independent purchasers of food and paper in Europe.The EIPC, which manages purchasing on behalf of some 2,000 Subway shops across the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain and Benelux, sources ...
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Fletchers’ staff seek union advice
Staff at Sheffield bakery Fletchers have been holding talks with union representatives and legal advisers over proposed changes to their contracts, which they fear could cost them thousands of pounds in pay cuts.Management at the plant in Claywheels Lane, Wadsley Bridge, revealed their plans on a company noticeboard (see ...
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Andrew Pollard, chairman, British Society of Baking
I enjoyed the BSB autumn conference for many reasons but, above all, for the ability to socialise and talk about general bakery issues other than just the prices of raw materials, which seems to have dominated us all in the trade for some time.With unprecedented increases in flour, oils and ...