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Packaging watch
Our packaging helps in-store bakeries look as if the products have come from the back of house. We did a lot of research and a strong view was that, if the product is in a bakery, consumers expect to see them in plastic trays. So we package the doughnuts in ...
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Recipes
Featured regularly in the pages of British Baker are recipes from some of the top bakers and confectioners in their fields working in the UK today. These include articles from leading lights such as Dan Lepard, Paul Hollywood and Richard Bertinet, old recipes from the archives and tips ...
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NewsLemon tarts
This recipe from the 1800s was found in a thin notebook of hand-written recipes. The author calls them ‘Lemon cheesecakes’. They are a cross between a custard tart and a lemon curd tart.Makes 120 small deep tarts – muffin tin sizeLarge lemons - 12Caster sugar - 1.1kgWhole eggs plus - ...
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NewsMrs Morton’s marmalade and currant cake
The original recipe comes from a notebook kept by the Morton family who ran a bakery in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, between 1890 and 1912.This recipe, entitled “4d cakes”, indicates how much each 1lb cakes should be sold for; the modern equivalent would be around £1.30.Makes 10 x 450g/1lb cakesMargarine or ...
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NewsRising to the challenge
You don’t hear many complaints from plant bakers these days about retailers selling bread below cost. But that doesn’t mean everything in the bakery is rustic. The sector still faces major challenges of restructuring and adapting to changing consumer lifestyles. And adapting to these will not be painless.Many bakers have ...
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Folic acid focus
Specialist ingredients supplier Zeelandia (Billericay, Essex) is emphasising the benefits of folic acid to consumers’ health at all ages. Ten years ago, Zeelandia launched Balance healthy bread mix, fortified with folic acid and designed for white bread.For those, who prefer brown bread, Zeelandia offers two other ‘healthy’ mixes: O’mega and ...
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Délifrance adds a touch of Vitality
Following on from the launch of its reduced salt baguette at the end of last year, Délifrance UK (Wigston, Leics) has launched the DéliVital range, comprising the ‘Vitality’ seeded baguette and the ‘Omega 3’ white baguette.The Vitality baguette is packed with sesame and pumpkin seeds, wheatgerm and fibre, says the ...
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Masked raid leaves baker fighting for life
A Dublin baker has been left in a critical condition in hospital after being attacked during a raid on the bakery where he worked, writes Hugh Oram. Jimmy Louth works for Clarke’s Bakery on the New Cabra Road in Dublin. At 4am on 3 July, he arrived for work to ...
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Bakers profit from LOW-GI mix
Capitalising on the vogue for seeded breads, ingredients supplier Bakels’ low Glycaemic Index (GI) Multiseed Bread Mix has been one of the most successful launches in the company’s history, says MD Paul Morrow. He claims that its customers are profiting from the trend towards low-GI products and the point-of-sale promotion ...
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NewsEnd of the road for Corrie bakery
Coronation Street’s sleazy baker Diggory Compton has shut up his shop in the fictitious town of Weatherfield, due to poor sales. He is planning to open on the more lucrative south side of Manchester. He told local café owner Roy Cropper on the soap this week that no-one had been ...
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Bako Western moves for greater frozen capacity
Wholesaler Bako Western has relocated to a new depot on an industrial estate a mile away from its original site in Cullompton, Devon. The new 40,000sq ft building on the Kingsmill industrial estate has a 1,000 pallet capacity freezer, office space and a test bakery. It is set in a ...
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NewsNorthern Foods counts cost of Fletchers blaze
Northern FOODS said it was “taking it day by day” after a massive blaze ripped through Fletchers Bakeries in Sheffield last Sunday. Around 150 workers of the Northern Foods-owned bakery’s 650 staff were on site when the fire started at 10.30am on 16 July. All were evacuated safely. The heat ...
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NewsBuck up your in-store ideas
The phrase ‘you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone’ is a common cliché. But what if you didn’t know what you could have, would you still want it? This apparent paradox underscores a recent shopper panel study, which asked whether people were really happy with the product range ...
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Call to order
Confectionery and café chain Thorntons says it has come up with a better way of serving customers hot snacks, such as toasties and paninis, avoiding them standing around waiting or sending staff to find them when the snacks are ready.The company has been trialling a CustomerCall pager system from CST ...
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NewsCarmen collected
US celebrity Carmen Electra was an unlikely presence at bakery college Brooklands last week, which was hosting a California Raisins-supported workshop for students. The surreal spot came about as the ex-Baywatch star was on location shooting a film called ‘I Want Candy’, also starring Mackenzie Crook (Gareth from The Office), ...
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GVS offers ride on a carousel
With healthy sandwiches and wraps becoming an increasingly popular choice for a light lunch or snack, General Vending Services (GVS), based in Horley, Surrey, is offering bakers a carousel food machine to vend sandwiches.The company, which supplies machines starting at £25 per week, says that its carousel food machines ...
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Cranberries clean up
Cranberry supplier Ocean Spray Ingredient Technology Group has introduced a new version of its sweetened dried cranberry (SDC). The natural juice SDC is claimed by the company to deliver all the health benefits associated with cranberries in an all-natural product. Sweetened entirely by natural fruit, it has a clean ingredient ...
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NewsComment
This week, for a change, I thought why not write about business and make our editor Sylvia happy? There will be no mention of incompetent, lying, corrupt politicians, or even public-sector employee pension schemes. Instead, I’ll focus on how we should all be more efficient to keep the above in ...
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NewsThorntons reports sales decline
Confectionery company Thorntons said sales for the 52 weeks to 24 June 2006 were down 5.9% to £176.6m compared with £187.7m last year, in a trading update this week.Retail sales were down by 5.3% to £127m after the closure of two stores and like-for-like sales for the full year were ...