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Flour crisis hits Zimbabwe
Two of the biggest bakeries in Zimbabwe said last week that they were about to run out of flour, adding to bread shortages. Lobels Bread, the country’s biggest bakery and Innscor, which runs Bakers Inn, have used up reserve flour stocks.President Mugabe’s government is only importing small quantities of wheat, ...
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Date loaf
This straightforward and reliable cake both tastes good and is low in fat. What more could you want to satisfy today’s demanding consumers?The recipe comes from Walter Mansbridge’s handwritten notebook and dates from the early 20th century.Mansbridge was a baker in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, where his descendants continue to run ...
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Do-it-all Doolittles
Sandwiches might seem a rather stodgy subject for an exciting new launch in a highly competitive market, but that’s exactly what Jenni Timony of Doolittles in Co Donegal has done. She started her firm in 2001 and it has since shown 70% year-on-year growth. It now produces about 110 different ...
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Down on the farm
Spring Lane Farm in Mapperley, Nottingham, is a working farm, solely producing products to sell on-site - from free range eggs and vegetables to fresh meat.The idea of opening a bakery evolved because the butchery was having to sell forequarter meat from the cattle as stewing steak and mince. So ...
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Lewis Pies set to expand
Swansea-based Lewis Pies is to spend £700,000 on extending its facilities so that they are "large enough to take our expansion plans for the next decade", it said.The premises in Forestfach will be extended this autumn to feature a new 7,500sq ft factory bolted onto the existing unit.The work, due ...
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Farmhouse Fare revamp includes TV sponsorship
Premium pudding supplier Farmhouse Fare has unveiled a £2m marketing package, including new packaging and a new TV sponsorship deal.The new packaging designs, which have been developed over the past six months, feature products from mixing bowl to dessert bowl, and give details of the story behind the six-year-old company.Farmhouse ...
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Legislation watch
Employers who count the eight public and bank holidays as part of their workers’ holiday entitlement will have to give them extra time off from 1 October, law firm DWF has warned.According to the new Working Time (Amendment) Regulations, statutory holidays will increase to a minimum of 5.6 weeks, including ...
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A spirited
approachCourvoisier: ’The Brandy of Napoleon’, it says on the bottle. Perhaps it should add underneath: ’And Helen Colley’s Bread and Butter Pudding’.But there’s not really room for her Farmhouse Fare logo beneath the distinctive black outline of France’s favourite emperor. And besides, I’m not really sure that our most British ...
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viewpoint
At the same time that the national press is filled with horror stories about additives, the baking industry is having to turn to improvers to help prevent loaves collapsing after the new harvest (pg 4).Wastage this year seems particularly bad. Nature has played such strange tricks with the wet weather ...
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International Activity
The International Grains Council has said that, in the EU in particular, the price of wheat has surged to new heights.In Germany, German bakers association president Peter Becker has warned that the price of bread was expected to increase by 5% in the coming weeks, fuelled by the near doubling ...
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Alex Waugh director general of nabim
The UK harvest is now estimated to be 80-85% complete. There is little left to do in the south, although there are still fields to be cut further north and in the west.As in other parts of Europe, yields are reported to be down on last ...
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BB’s installs training for own facilities
Café chain BB’s Coffee & Muffins is scaling up its training facilities with the launch of a new academy in Ireland.The chain, which has 150 outlets in the UK and 20 in Ireland, has based its new Franchisee & Management Training Academy at its Irish head office, in Limerick.The ...