Baking Guides

Every December I tell myself I'll sort the mince pies early, and every December I'm rolling pastry at ten the night before the school do with a jar of mincemeat and three kids asking what's for tea. …

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Every parkin recipe I've ever looked at wants a 20cm square tin, and I haven't got one. What I've got is loaf tins, because I sell them. So last autumn I gave up hunting for the square tin and made i …

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I don't know about you, but in our house, any Christmas cake we get given is usually still sitting in the cupboard in February. It's always just a massive, foil-wrapped brick getting harder by the da …

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Shop-bought English muffins are a bit sad, aren't they. Dry, no holes to speak of, and stale the day after you open the packet. So one Saturday I made my own, because it's flour, yeast, milk and a fr …

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Baking little cakes should be one of the easy pleasures, and too often it ends in exasperation with half the cake still sitting in the tin's grooves. If you're shopping for a new mini cake tin, what y …

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There is a particularly disappointing moment when you get those perfect looking yorkies out of the oven and realise you have to rip them to pieces just to get them off the pan. Bye bye instagram-perfe …

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