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Serve up healthier teatime treats with pre-mixes
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcs) has developed a cake mix that is free of hydrogenated and trans fats. “This mix is great because it produces an old-fashioned traditional teatime cake, while offering bakers the choice of producing a whole range of other tasty treats,” says Dawn Foods’ marketing director Maggie Dagostino.Another ...
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Serve up healthier teatime treats with pre-mixes
Dawn Foods (Evesham, Worcs) has developed a cake mix that is free of hydrogenated and trans fats. “This mix is great because it produces an old-fashioned traditional teatime cake, while offering bakers the choice of producing a whole range of other tasty treats,” says Dawn Foods’ marketing director Maggie Dagostino.Another ...
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Multiseed mix makes its mark
According to British Bakels, (Bicester, Oxon) one Yorkshire baker is selling 1.2 tonnes of baked goods per week using its Multiseed bread mix. And Asa Nicholson Bakery in Keelham, near Bradford, sells that amount from just one shop and a tearoom.Bakels’ Multiseed bread concentrate is a low glycaemic index (GI) ...
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Sainsbury’s fined £10k
Sainsbury’s has been prosecuted following an accident that left a Cheshire in-store bakery manager with serious neck and back injuries. The employee, of the company’s Curzon Road store in Sale, slipped on water, which had leaked from a dough prover onto the floor of the bakery in March 2004. Environmental ...
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Ireland considers folic acid
Fortification of bakery and other foods with Folic Acid in Ireland will not get under way until at least March or April, writes Anne Marie Foley. Following public consultation, the National Committee on Folic Acid Food Fortification is expected to complete its report in February. The Minister for Health, ...
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Doctor seeks firm to make allergy-free baked goods
Dr Chrissie Jenkins, who runs a Harley Street consultancy, Waistrim Foods, for allergy sufferers, is seeking bakers, preferably London-based, to develop a new range of breads.The doctor told British Baker that she has spent 15 years researching suitable breads and dough products that are “really good-tasting and palatable”, while at ...
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Allied goes for fuller impact with changes to Kingsmill
Allied Bakeries this week relaunched its Kingsmill Everyday bread range in new packaging and renamed three lines, in a bid to increase impact on consumers.The “simplified” packaging has clearer branding and adopts the Kingsmill ‘Fresh from the Bakery’ seal, first introduced on Kingsmill Gold in November 2005. Allied has also ...
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NewsFIGHT BACK
“When the Red Cross try to help in war-torn countries one of the things they do is set up a little bakery, because a bakery represents the heart of a community. People will gather around the oven and you rebuild that community,” craft baker and writer Dan Lepard said recently, ...
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NewsBag a new design
Belcolade Belgian chocolate from ingredients supplier Puratos (Buckingham) has been repackaged to help customers differentiate between the dark, milk and white chocolates available. The new design features simplified graphics and a new strapline – The Real Belgian Chocolate – which the company says reinforces the brand’s authenticity and heritage. It ...
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Mixing it up with BakeMark cakes
The Craigmillar range from BakeMark UK (Wirral Merseyside) includes the Rich Celebration Cake Mix, which can be used in traditional and sheet cakes.Bakers can add their own creative touches by using extra fruit, nuts, marzipan and icings, such as Topice Overwrappable White Icing, says BakeMark.Bakers and caterers looking for an ...
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NewsPlant bakers line up record profits
This year should see record returns for plant bakers. As good news stories go, that is not a bad one to kick off the New Year. And it is all down to confident pricing on branded sliced loaves, says a leading city analyst. A better understanding of consumer trends is ...
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NewsExtra charity from bakery
Littlehampton bakery A W Biggs raised £1,091 to buy Christmas presents for 200 severely disabled children with a Christmas raffle. It donated the money to charity The Children’s Trust, which has a home in Tadworth, Surrey, providing care, therapy and education for children with multiple disabilities and complex health needs. ...
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Baking for generations
Hot bread rolls from a barrow, klezmer players fiddling down the street, and a lechayim with honey cake to toast the occasion. A journey through the history of one of London’s bakery landmarks took place recently, when the Grodzinski family celebrated the 75th anniversary of its bakery shop in Stamford ...
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Multi-temperature vehicles at Bako
Bako London and South East has taken delivery of its first 16 multi-temperature vehicles from Doncaster-based Gray & Adams. The vehicles, which have been designed and purpose-built for Bako London and South East, are being used to distribute around 2,500 frozen, chilled and ambient products to a customer base ...
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NewsSetback for Northern Foods in its Melton Mowbray pork pie battle
Northern Foods has had another setback in its battle to stop production of Melton Mow-bray pork pies being restricted to a 1,800 square mile zone around the Leicestershire town.The company has been battling for seven years against the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association’s (MMPPA) plans to gain “Protected Geographical ...
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Big chill at new UK plant
Frozen cookie production at a new UK plant is benefiting from high-volume refrigeration plant supplied by Eurotek (Aylsham, Norwich). The line at Rich Products’ plant in Hartlebury, Worcestershire, includes a new, made-to-measure, Eurotek spiral freezer and refrigeration plant. This can handle a range of product sizes and weights at a ...
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NewsBread is excluded from EU’s Nominal QuantitiesBread is excluded from EU’s Nominal Quantities
A EUROPEAN Commission committee has voted to allow bread and other staples to be excluded from the EU Nominal Quantities Directive.The EU Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee voted in favour of amending the draft directive on December 12. This directive currently states there should be no set weights ...
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NewsBread is excluded from EU’s Nominal Quantities
A EUROPEAN Commission committee has voted to allow bread and other staples to be excluded from the EU Nominal Quantities Directive.The EU Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee voted in favour of amending the draft directive on December 12. This directive currently states there should be no set weights ...
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NewsHealthy eating: Wholegrain Rye Bread
100% Rye Wholegrain LoafThis classic loaf manages to be both incredibly simple to make and very difficult to get perfect. The challenge lies in not over-cooking the grains; that way they absorb moisture during the final bake and then release it again during the few days the loaf is ...