Job: Artisan Baker

Closing Date: 30-08-2020

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Remuneration: dependent on experience

Job: Craft Baker

Closing Date: 31-08-2020

Location: Glynde, Nr Lewes, East Sussex

Remuneration: 21k-26k

We frequently receive questions about rye flour. "What's the difference between dark rye and wholemeal rye?", "Is rye flour wholemeal?" for example. Hopefully this short and simple article will be just the thing to clear up what you need to know about rye flour nomenclature. Thanks to a conversation with Andrew Wilkinson of Gilchester for some of the details. There...

Job: Mixer man /Baker

Closing Date: 21-07-2020

Location: NW95BR

Remuneration:

I love that part of our small business at BakeryBits supports and promotes other like-minded businesses. Take British flour mills for example - not just because they produce fantastic tasting flour, but also because buying their flour supports our dwindling stock of working traditional mills, helping to conserve an important part of our history and sustain rural communities. The millers...

Sourdough Special Over the next three weeks we are embracing Sourdough September with a series of newsletters covering questions and answers all related to sourdough. If you would like to send your sourdough query to us by email, send it to vanessa@bakerybits.co.uk. This weekend we will also be hosting a live session on Twitter for your questions that simply can’t...

There is a distinct feeling of autumn in the air and many are rolling up their sleeves to get bread baking again. So what better time to dust off your bannetons and have a sieve through our helpful recap and advice in this week's newsletter? We get fairly regular calls from bakers struggling with their bannetons as I know Vanessa...

Halloween is coming up in a couple of weeks so I thought I'd get our black pizza recipe out to you now so you have time to get the ingredients together - see below. I had an excellent day at the Crop to Crust conference last weekend. It was fascinating to learn more about British growing, milling and baking and...

For the first year since planting I have a little glut of apples. It’s taken about 10 years to get this far and I suspect in the years to come I’ll suddenly be up to my neck in them. For now though I don’t want to waste them. Driving around at the moment I notice apples all over the place...

I’ve been putting my bees to bed for the winter. Beekeeping always seems to be portrayed as some nostalgic art more at home in a bonnet drama, with permanently blue skies and a bearded monk strolling around a beautifully calm apiary and tons of lovely honey. My experience isn’t quite like that. I’m hoping this is normal. Bees are strange...