Well at last F4MD has a hub in Macclesfield at 14, Gilchrist Ave - Hurray!

The helpers !

Men at work!

At last lets get out the Champagne or was it Cava!

Taking F4MD forward - Cheers!

Lardy Cake
Something sweet was the request for this weeks bread club, so lardy cake was the what we made.

We all seemed to do different things, either by accident or choice. One of us forgot to add half of the fat - oops! we used different flour, local and British. There was a smokey air around the aga as the cakes began to bake.
Lets see what the feedback is- a hit or a miss!

Wholey holey Foccacia!

Focaccia 2 The Rival!

Tried another Focaccia recipe today using 'leaven' - (Wild yeast) and fresh yeast.
We started with part 2 of the recipe first ( i.e. here's one I made earlier) type idea, because of time restrictions. So we were able to bake and taste the results. Yum Yum!
Then we started a new batch and finished it off at home.

This is the end result -

Potato and Rosemary Bread

The day started with a bit of humour when someone (who shall remain nameless )sent a recipe stating we needed 3 bulbs of garlic instead of 3 cloves!! We had enough garlic to feed the whole of Macc -
Well not really but we had a lot!!!.

things seemed a bit slow in the bread rising department, but it all turned out well in the end.

 

Focaccia Bread Day!

We had a go at making focaccia bread today - starting to act like we know what we are doing, hence trying more advanced bread - well different  bread anyway!
It's a lot wetter dough than the norm and struggled to add the recommended quantity of water.
Anyway here are a couple of pics - I think they look ok and I know one tastes ok!

Danger HXB!

Well today was Hot X Bun day using an adapted Andrew Whitley recipe. The dough wasn't as easy to handle, and didn't come together as easily as a normal (i.e. just flour, water, salt kind of normal)  bread recipe, on saying that it was all ok in the end and they turned out great. Just need to sample them with a bit of real butter -yum!

Before

After