All British Baker articles in November 2006 – Page 5
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Cuisine de France
Cuisine de France (Stone, Staffordshire) says it has something for everyone this Christmas, from traditional festive treats to indulgent winter goodies.The Shortcrust Pastry Mince Pie is a fully-baked, thaw and serve pastry case, filled with mincemeat, for single purchases.The Festive Mince Pie with a Bag is designed for family purchases. ...
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Commodities tracker
Information from 64,000 wheat samples and 22,000 barley samples has been received and analysed by HGCA for its final Cereals Quality Survey.It shows the UK has harvested another good quality wheat crop. Compared to recent years, average Hagberg and protein content is higher with specific weight slightly down and moisture ...
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Elisabeth the Chef
Elisabeth the Chef reports significant growth in packaged cakes over the last year, with sales growth topping the 20% mark. The company states that almost all that growth stems from traditional product areas - choux buns, meringue-based products, doughnuts, éclairs, custards and sponges.The bulk of the company’s bakery work is ...
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Raising a pie for charity
This year sees the inaugural World Scotch Pie Week, organised by The Scotch Pie Club from Saturday 25 November to Saturday 2 December and sponsored by ADM Milling.Under the slogan ’Say aye tae a pie’, the event, which has echoes of the annual Doughnut Week, aims to raise money for ...
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Mrs Frazer’s ginger and caraway sponge
This fatless sponge comes from The Practice of Cookery, Pastry and Confectionery and was first published in Edinburgh in 1791.The book was popular and several editions were printed. Mrs Frazer suggests using lemon or orange zest.Makes 10 18cm/7" cakes20 eggs1.1kg/2½lb sugar25g/1oz of ground ginger75g/3oz of caraway seeds1.4 kg/3lb plain flourCaster ...
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California Raisins
California Raisins (Barnes, London) is launching an Organic Food Bar range. The bars are non-dairy kosher and three are vegan-certified. All are vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, peanut-free, soy-free and GMO-free, with no preservatives, additives, salt, coatings or refined sugar. The RRP is £1.99.The 100% organic range includes Protein, Vegan, Omega-3 Flax, ...
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Burton’s Foods
Burton’s Foods (Blackpool, Lancashire), makers of Cadbury’s biscuits under licence, has launched a Cadbury "Signature" collection, comprising 200g packs of Bournville Shortcake Rounds, Milk Chocolate shortbread and Milk Chocolate Orange cookies (RSP £1.99).Jaspal Chada, marketing director of Burton’s Foods commented: "Last year, we had a fantastic response from consumers and ...
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Burger King feels heat in UK
Bakeries and sandwich shops are enticing fast food fans away from Burger King in the UK.The Miami-based company’s recent financial results statement highlighted poor performance in the UK. It blamed this on "perceptions about obesity and food-borne illness; and increased competition from sandwich shops, bakeries and other new restaurants".Burger King’s ...
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British Sugar
British Sugar has launched TopWrap icing sugar, part of the Celebration range, designed for use on products such as iced buns, which are often wrapped in film before sale."The icing sets harder than usual, doesn’t stick to the film and it doesn’t come off the bun," said British Sugar’s commercial ...
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Briefs
n Sales of New York Bagel Company-branded bagels have increased 30% in the last few weeks following a TV advertising campaign. Owner, Maple Leaf Bakery UK, said sales were flying since the adverts first aired on 6 October.n International food and drink exhibition IFE 07 will showcase 45 confectionery and ...
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Naan bread likely cause of UCB fire
A fire that destroyed part of United Central Bakeries’ (UCB) West Lothian factory last week is believed to have started in a naan oven.Police forensic teams are still investigating the blaze, which broke out at the Whitehill Industrial Estate during the night-shift. Eye-witnesses said that a clump of bread caught ...
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Greggs blames mild and wet weather for poor trading
Greggs blamed unseasonably mild and wet weather for particularly disappointing trading in the four weeks to 7 October.The bakery group announced like-for-like sales in the second half of the year (19 weeks to 28 October) up 0.2% and it added that the Christmas period would be critical to its success ...
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Three Cooks’ management make rescue bid
Management of retail bakery Three Cooks said they remain locked in rescue talks with administators after the chain collapsed last week.Administrators Tenon Recovery closed 37 loss-making sites after being called in on November 1, with around 250 job losses.The Solihull-based chain, which had 158 shops, said it appointed administrators because ...
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Warburtons to open new bakery in south
Baker Warburtons has revealed it will open another bakery in the south in the next two years, as nationwide expansion continues.Category marketing controller Sarah Miskell told British Baker it will first open a second bread line at its Enfield bakery in early 2007 to support further expansion in the south.Miskell ...
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Reporting in - Gordon Polson, director,Federation of Bakers
It has been a busy 12 months since the industry announced its plans to reduce salt in bread and we are already making significant strides in meeting our targets.The Federation has for many years taken a positive and proactive approach to salt reduction. Salt levels in bread have been reduced ...
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I chose to be a baker
I ’m a mature student in my second year at Castle College in Sheffield, currently sitting an NVQ Level Two Bakery, Patisserie and Cake Decorating, having gained Level One last year.The course couldn’t be further from anything I’ve done in the past and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. I worked for ...
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Brown made COO of Bakehouse
Continental pastries and speciality bread producer Bakehouse restructured last month, with former sales director Tony Brown promoted to chief operating officer.Brown will oversee the company’s day-to-day running and implementation of strategy. Meanwhile, Peter Drew has been appointed as innovations director, a post which was created to develop Bakehouse’s position ...
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Asda shapes its local offer
Bakery buyers may be sobbing in the aisles - and one or two tertiary bakery suppliers, no doubt - as the one-size-fits-all approach to filling the supermarket bakery concessions across the land is ditched, with the focus shifted onto locally sourced products, premium, indulgent products and organics.Asda is simplifying its ...
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Flour: price up again
The price of flour is set to rise by another £25 a tonne before Christmas, as increased costs continue to hit the milling sector.The major millers Rank Hovis and ADM Milling are preparing to announce a second round of price increases, just four months after they last put their prices ...
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ABF revenue lower
Associated British Foods said its Allied Bakeries division had seen "a very disappointing year", as it posted preliminary results for the year ended 16 September this week.There were revenue declines in Kingsmill and own label, and profitability declined sharply. The new management team has developed plans for the reinvigoration of ...