News!

I have not posted here for a while, largely because there has been little to report.
Oats is now an established weekly order of Spelt and Rye Sourdough, and Soda Bread, and the first Millie and Me order went down well, I have two upcoming orders for them in the next couple of months. In fact they phoned me last week to see if I could do 60 rolls at short notice. Unfortunately, it was the weekend of Yvonne's birthday and Naomi and Eamon were coming down, so I had to pass. It's a shame, because I hate turning work away, but Yvonne would have been upset if I had not been able to celebrate her special day properly because of baking. (And that's putting it mildly!!!)


However today I took delivery of my new cooker, the old one was on it's last legs, the door needed wedging shut to make it work, and the thermostat was in a world of it's own. Now I have a shiny new one, I don't want to use it, in case it gets dirty.

Oats got in touch today, they want Ciabatta on a regular basis for their cafe, so I will do a sample batch when I do the Sourdough order on Sunday, check out their page here;

https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Oats/575559045803659?fref=ts

and the post.

Oats

creating panini ideas at the moment as a near-future addition in our cafe. We will be using locally made artisan ciabatta by Richard Dockett of Wellbread as the base.

What's your favourite filling???

 That's all the news for now, I will tell you how we get on with the Ciabatta next time. 

A bit of positive feedback from Oats on facebook,

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oats/575559045803659#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=650783911614505&id=575559045803659

nice to get a mention, and a satisfied customer as well.

The next big job is the FIRST order for Millie and Me, I'm very excited about this one, so it's got to be right. Cheese and Onion rolls, Various Focaccia and some Flaky Biscuits (American Style)

As it happens, the first part went without a hitch, but just to be sure, I tried a focaccia in Wessex mills "Mediterranean" flour, to measure up the portions, I found last time the hardest job was getting all the rolls roughly the same size.
 

Anyway that went reasonably well, and had the benefit of producing rolls for lunch, and the next few days.

 

So I moved on to the main event, and produced around 5 kilos of dough.

Part of the Dough

The other Part

 

This I turned into the rolls and focaccia, I will do the biscuits last.

And the results? Well have a look and see what you think.

 

 

I've never made that many biscuits in one go before, lots of frozen butter to grate and sticky dough to persuade into manageable shapes, but I think the results are worth it.

 

Unfortunately there were a few mis-shapes, that would be the bakers perk! Theres got to be a reward for getting up so early. All in the name of quality control of course.

Now I have to deliver them and wait for the verdict.