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A look at easy to lower salt intake with alternative ingredients and a delicious low salt bread recipe

A week in the life of a loaf -how to make the most of your bread day by day (whether you’ve made or bought it) plus some additional ideas

A pain d’epices loaf cake made with blood oranges and heart healthy olive oil

Stencilled cob loaf – a recipe for a beer bread cob loaf, plus how to stencil bread and a free medieval sun face stencil to create a gorgeous loaf

Searching for a gingerbread recipe can be a bit confusing – for a start gingerbread can be a rich loaf cake, a pain d’epices, or it can be a crisp biscuit for gingerbread houses or litt…

Moist and delicious blueberry and mascarpone loaf cake, enriched with honey and Cointreau

Recipe for a six seed and grain family-sized sandwich loaf

A 50:50 white and whole loaf recipe plus how to make the crackle glaze (sometimes called tiger bread) topping

These are based on the Orange-chocolate cake recipe in the ‘La Mere De La Famille’ recipe book by Julien Merceron.

So, being nosey as usual, after making a batch of spelt walnut loaf I thought I ought to learn a bit more about yeast and the bread fermentation process.