All British Baker articles in October 2011 – Page 6
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More Sweet Moments for Erlenbacher
Erlenbacher has introduced three new Sweet Moments tartlets to its range of frozen desserts. Available in miniature individual portions, the Nut Nougat Cream tartlet is made using a combination of light and dark nut cream, sprinkled with crushed roasted hazelnuts on a fine shortcrust pastry base and with a smooth ...
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Edible nut pricing
Almonds: There are two strong and opposing forces at work on almond pricing: the new Californian crop looks set to be by far the largest ever, and may come in at over 900,000mt; and demand for almonds is certain to rise globally, for no other reason than prices at current ...
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Hope on flour as large harvest takes down wheat prices
Wheat prices eased in the past week as the world harvest was larger than predicted, offering hope to bakers that flour prices may follow suit.Wheat futures prices (LIFFE, November 2011 contract) fell from £156.65 per tonne on September 29 to £145.50 as BB went to press, on 4 October, on ...
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Greggs grabs Moment in spotlight with new-concept coffee shop
Greggs is set to shake up the UK coffee market after launching a new value coffee shop concept called Greggs Moment, which undercuts players such as Costa and Starbucks on price.The UK’s largest retail baker opened the Greggs Moment store in Newcastle last week, offering Fairtrade coffee, tea served in ...
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Squeaky Clean
Dirt and contamination kills. At least, it can do. That is why anyone involved in the retailing or manufacturing of food has a huge responsibility. Get it wrong and not only will you have sick customers and the risk of litigation on your hands, your business could be forced to ...
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DuPont seeks clarification
DuPont, the manufacturer of Teflon-branded products, has launched a brand assurance programme for its DuPont Industrial Baking Solutions (DIBS) coating systems, to ensure greater transparency in the marketplace.The firm develops coating systems for industrial bakeware.Phil Bardsley, business manager for DuPont fluoroproducts, explained that through discussions with plant bakers over the ...
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Ginsters looks to Christmas
Ginsters has added three special-edition sandwiches and a pasty to its range, ready for the festive season. The Christmas Cracker, Cranberry, Wensleydale and Bacon and Prawn Cocktail special edition sandwiches, as well as its Turkey, Bacon and Cranberry special edition pasty will launch in stores on 2 November.The Christmas cracker ...
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WCB hosts Chinese tour
A Chinese bakers delegation was treated to a tour of the UK bakery scene and a dinner at the Worshipful Company of Bakers (WCB). The event was organised by David Powell on behalf of Rich Products.The delegates, including craft bakers and staff of Starbucks in China, visited Dunn’s Bakery in ...
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New Year challenge
When Mike Holling reopens his shops for the first time in the New Year, gone will be indulgent Christmas cakes, and in their place will be healthy multi-seed loaves and rolls. Holling, manager of Birds of Derby, and chairman of the National Association of Master Bakers (NAMB), says the New ...
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Crunchie’s celebration
Premier Foods has expanded its Cadbury Celebration Cake range with the launch of a Crunchie Celebration cake. The new cake forms part of a wider initiative by Premier to introduce confectionery brands in cake formats. The RSP is £6.49 and the cake divides into at least 10 portions. Premier hopes ...
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Caught in the Web
Need a large cake to feed 40-50 people. How about a stop by the desert and we mean desert aisle online for this novelty camel cake tinyurl.com/3ftbcp8Cakes that look ready to bite back (right). These are actually not cakes, but foam art, by US West Coast artist Scott ...
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My Career
How did you get into baking?I left school quite young and started work as a cash collector for Panificio Italiano in Wembley, which involved looking after accounts in the City and in and around the West End. It was quite challenging, visiting Italian restaurants, but it prepared me for the ...
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Mini cakes target treat occasions
Country Range has launched a line of frozen mini cakes designed for foodservice operators.Cases of five of each of the following desserts are available: chocolate eclairs, finger doughnuts, fruit scones, Black Forest muffins, carrot cakes, chocolate brownies, custard slices and cream slices. The firm said additional sweet and savoury ...
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MCS brings out new tunnel oven
Italian oven specialist MCS has launched an impingement tunnel oven, which will be available in the UK through Benier UK.Impingement oven technology is used for baking pastry and confectionery products, as it has a high flow rate of hot air from both above and below the product. The air flow ...
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Bertinet pop-up opens despite wholesale glitch
Author and TV baker Richard Bertinet has opened a pop-up shop in Bath and is close to securing permanent premises in the city after setting up a new production bakery.The new Bertinet Bakery pop-up shop opened last week and will trade in the run-up to Christmas, selling the baker’s award-winning ...
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Park Cakes workers face strike ballot
Workers at Oldham-based Park Cakes are currently being balloted over strike action, following claims by the Bakers Food and Workers’ Union (BFAWU), that the firm is attempting to bypass new legis-lation covering agency workers.The union has also claimed that the firm was planning on introducing new contracts without consultation and ...
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Baking proves popular
Proof, if any further proof were needed, that bakery is in vogue was witnessed at the book retailer Waterstones recently. An eagle-eyed British Baker reader snapped this corner of a store in West Sussex, devoted completely to the topic of home baking.She said: "I know it’s home baking, but it ...
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White House under bakery fire
Who would like to sell their muffins for £10? Well, if you supply the White House that is how much you could charge.A new report by the US Justice Department has discovered the centre of power has been paying $16 for the tasty treat. What’s more, it has also been ...
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Community bakery launch
Around 300 residents in Dunbar, Scotland, raised nearly £38,000 via a community share offer to open a new high street bakery. Investors in the community-owned co-operative venture, which opened this week, will not receive dividends but a 10% discount on artisan breads made on the premises.The initiative received funding and ...
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Craft Bakers’ Week sees hundreds participate
Hundreds of independent bakeries across the country took their skills and products out into the community during last month’s National Craft Bakers’ Week.At least twice as many com-panies took part in the event as last year, with bakers offering customers samples of their products outside their shops in a promotion ...