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How to make soda bread

As I may have mentioned once or twice…or so… I love to make bread. I think that it’s relaxing and rewarding and wholesome, and is a valuable skill if you’re trying to eat a healthy and minimally processed diet. Baking leavened bread, however takes forethought. If you’re using yeast your loaf will generally need to […]

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Whole wheat malt loaf

Before coming to Shetland, I don’t think I’d ever had malt loaf. In fact, I think my only experience with malt was probably restricted to “Whoppers”, the American version of Maltesers, which my big sister liked when we were kids, but I always found a bit weird. Now that my palette has come to its […]

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Apricot frangipane tart

This week I decided to set myself a bit of a challenge. So far my magnificent baking adventures have focused primarily on cake with the odd foray into cookies and pastry in the form of galette. I love making pastry, and have a few healthy variations that I use quite regularly, mostly in the form […]

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Cinnamon raisin spelt buns

This week I’ve been thinking about happiness. It’s a bit of a stressful time at the moment at casa del Leask. There’s a load of stuff going on in our lives, and it’s easy to spend all of my time worrying and over thinking every thing. This mind set is a habit of a lifetime, […]

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Old school Shetland bannocks

Living in Shetland you really can’t help but be taken in by its history. We are surrounded by it. Everywhere you look there are ruins that span the ages. Neolithic standing stones,iron age brochs,viking settlements, and castles from the 12th and 16th centuries. But the most visible of this wide spanning physical history are the […]