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Your questions answered
Coming of ageQ. When will the new laws outlining age discrimination come into effect?A. New regulations are planned for October. They are expected to have more impact on employment relations than any legislation in recent years, particularly unfair dismissal and new rights to redundancy and promotion. Types of spendingQ. What ...
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NewsBake and display in a single unit, says Lincat
Lincat (Lincoln) has extended its range of upright, heated merchandisers with a new oven feature. Part of its Seal counter top equipment, the new combined merchandiser-ovens enable hot snacks to be baked and displayed in a single unit.Made from stainless steel, the new models comprise an easy-to-clean display unit, set ...
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Bakery move
Warburtons has closed its Westgate End bakery in Wakefield as it completes a move to its nearby Tuscany Park site. The last of the old bakery’s production – 400g loaves – shifted to the new £60 million site, five miles away on Monday January 23.The 12.9-acre Tuscany Park site on ...
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Bakery re-opens
Baker Paul Jones is to revive his 70-year-old family bakery business in North Wales after a two-year hiatus.Mr Jones will open a new 4,500sq ft Jones Bakery in Flintshire on February 6, sel-ling a range of 60 lines inclu-ding breads, scones and Bara Brith (a Welsh fruited loaf).Mr Jones told ...
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Scottish bakery defrauded
A MANAGERESS defrauded £14,000 from a Scottish bakery over a two-month period, a court heard.Margaret Anderson, 44, of Yoker, Glasgow, admitted embezzling from Bradford Bakers of Giffnock when she appeared before Paisley Sheriff’s Court.The court heard how Ms Anderson had initally impressed management and was promoted from shop assistant ...
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NewsFour Bars revamped
The Village Bakery (Melmerby, Cumbria) is introducing a Four Berries Bar to its range of organic Four Bars, which includes Four Fruits, Four Nuts and Four Seeds. Packaging has also been redesigned. Containing blueberries, cranberries, strawberries and raspberries, the new Four Berries Bars are wheat-free and contain no added fat. ...
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Roast beef sandwich
This sandwich is made using La Brea Wholegrain Loaf bread Slices wholegrain loaf - 2 Roast beef - 3.5oz Balsamic onions - 1oz Horseradish spread - 0.5oz Rocket - 0.5oz Horseradish spread Mix together 2oz horseradish sauce and 10oz ...
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Better loaves with Kluman’s Breadfat
Kluman & Balter (Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire) has expanded its fats and oils range with Breadfat. The fat produces light and well-textured bread for sandwich loaves, baps, rolls and other speciality items, says the company.Kluman & Balter offers seven different types of margarine. The Sovereign Superior AV margarine has good creaming ...
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Cypriot breads
Tempo, a local Cypriot supermarket, asked me to help them reduce the “crust” of wrapped and sliced box bread used for sandwiches, which was being baked for 30 minutes at 240ºC. Then the heat was turned off and the bread left in the oven for a further 30 minutes. ...
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In Brief
ALAN Davis, who runs the Authentic Bread Company in Gloucester, says that he sold 47 tonnes of Christmas mincemeat to Prince Charles’ Duchy Originals food company in 2005. That figure is a hefty increase on the 14 tonnes sold in 2004. READERS are reminded that for legal reasons we cannot ...
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In Brief
Asda’s new “hot cross hedgehog” loaf is the “best product it has ever put out”, according to bakery director Huw Edwards. The new 400g spicy bloomer loaf, priced at 92p, has a ripple effect from cuts on the top. Bakery equipment company Capway Systems has started marketing Rijkaart NV products ...
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Classic grilled cheese with marinated onions and wholegrain mustard
This sandwich was devised using La Brea Country White Sourdough Oval Country White Sourdough Oval bread - 8 slices Extra virgin olive oil - 1/3 cup Tablespoons white wine vinegar - 2-3 Tablespoons Maldon sea salt - 2 Tablespoon freshly cracked black pepper - ...
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Competition class
A series of demonstrations and workshops in Leeds aims to help students prepare for up-coming bakery competitions. The National Federation of Bakery Students’ Societies/IBB Alliance is holding an Exhibition Standard School on Friday, February 10, from 8.30am to 5pm, and Saturday, February 11, 2006 from 8.30am to 3pm. The ...
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NewsSubway grows with suppliers as its expansion continues
Sandwich chain Subway is predicting it will sell 150 million submarine rolls in the UK and Ireland and in continental Europe in 2006, as its rapid expansion continues.The chain sold 53.3m sticks in its 617 stores in the UK and Ireland in 2005 and 46.6m in its 500 continental European ...
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NewsPork pie news encourages Cornish pasty producers
Cornish pasty campaigners say they have new hope of restricting production of Cornish pasties to Cornwall, after the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association (MMPPA) won a Court of Appeal victory on January 24.The Melton Mowbray Association has been campaigning for seven years for the legal right to restrict production of ...
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Cream of the crop
DCL Yeast (Alloa, Scotland) and Europe’s leading cream yeast specialist Algist Bruggeman (Belgium), both part of the Lesaffre Group, have extended the use of cream yeast away from its traditional plant baking use.The benefits of cream yeast include hygienic handling, accurate dosing, improved mixing, more consistent fermentation, reduced foreign body ...
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NewsCulture shock
Bakers could be set for further yeast price increases in the coming months as reform of the EU Sugar Regime impacts on yeast manufacturers. Grumbling from the yeast industry over the price of molasses (a thick syrup produced from refining sugar and used in the production of yeast), which has ...
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IAWS declares satisfaction with trading performance
Irish food giant IAWS Group said it is satisfied with overall trading performance in the year to date, as it held its Annual General Meeting on January 30.But chairman Denis Lucey said the company, which operates brands including Delice de France, Cuisine de France and Pierre’s, is only five months ...
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Délifrance UK
Délifrance UK (Leicester) has launched a sweet-tasting, round flatbread inspired by a 19th century recipe from Lapland.The Polar Bread is of Swedish origin, but French bakers have adopted the ‘pain polaire’, as it is known across the channel, and its popularity as a sandwich carrier has boomed. The bread enables ...
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Fermex gives frozen dough a lift
Fermex (Worcester) supplies a frozen yeast product with characteristics similar to dried and fresh yeasts, but also a number of advantages over both, particularly when used in frozen dough applications. Like dried yeast, it is free-flowing, even at –20°C, is unaffected by oxygen and moisture, so vacuum-packed storage is unnecessary, ...