baking / Georgina Does

Sourdough masterclass with Good in Bread

Monday, 11 October 2021

I love baking. Fairy cakes, banana bread, Tuesday nights watching bake off, although the more I bake, the more apparent it becomes that I'm not particularly good at it.

Keep it simple and I'm fine but move on to more intricate recipes like sourdough and I wouldn't know where to start.

Sourdough became the 'it' thing to eat a few years ago; avotoast has never looked back and once people realised that they were going to have alot of time on their hands last year, it became one of the 'it' things to bake.

I know it takes a very long time because I have just successfully baked (and immediately eaten) my first two loaves.

I definitely cannot take all the credit. The guys at Good in Bread sent me all the stuff I needed, a simple recipe and they even set up a Zoom call with Emily (who founded the brand) who talked me through the process step by step and let me tell you, sourdough is no easy feat.

With one step unsupervised, I did manage to burn the first loaf (it was a little extra crusty) but the 2nd was perfect and a very proud moment. I try to avoid bread at home where I can but there was no resisting a loaf that I had baked fresh myself. We had bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner for two days last week.

Good in Bread is an artisan sourdough subscription service which means it's now possible to have a freshly baked loaf delivered to my London door step on a bi-weekly basis.

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Monday, 4 May 2015

I guess the guys at Baking Mad must have been as impressed as I was with my bread making skills because they got back in touch to see if I wanted to work on their next campaign, of course I said yes but I think this time I think I may have lost my good cook reputation.

The theme was Vanilla. They have teamed up with Nielsen Massey and asked us to pick a recipe that included some of their vanilla products. I went for the vanilla cupcake recipe, but I still managed to mess that one up haha although I can blame Andrew for that one, it wasn't my fault that he didn't have a muffin/cupcake tray to cook them in!

I had a fun afternoon making them but lets just say, they didn't turn out like the photo haha, although they did taste quite nice!

Thanks Baking Mad!

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Monday, 23 March 2015

I was pretty scared when Baking Mad sent me a hamper full of Allinson Flour, a bread tin and yeast and asked me to make a loaf of bread. It was one of those ones that I wanted to say yes to but I was a bit worried about having to showcase my failed work on my blog after haha.

I'd just had a meeting with Diet Coke earlier that day about their new 'Regret Nothing' campaign, encouraging women to be impulsive and do what they want to do and not to worry about it - 6 out of 10 women would happily ‘do things differently’ if they had their time again and I know that a bit of an extreme thing to compare making a loaf of bread to but it is a running joke that I cant cook and bread is something I have always wanted to try so I'm glad I did - and guys, prepare yourselves - you would not believe the result!

I can make bread!! It might not be all cheffy like this herb focaccia recipe but its a legit loaf of bread that looks and tastes like real bread. My mum was so amazed when I took it out of the oven that she called everyone into into the kitchen (including both my brothers and their girlfriends) to marvel at my creation.

We got my dad to slice into it and within 5 minutes the whole lots was gone, crust and all and it was so good!

Big thanks to Baking Mad for giving me the opportunity to push my comfort zones and making the bread making process so easy for me - I will definitely be making it again!

Check out the recipe here

(you can tell I'm proud of this one, look how many photos I took!)

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Sunday, 9 November 2014

I love to bake! Most girls my age do but as you might have seen before on my blog, I'm not the best at it so when Betty Crocker got in touch as asked if I wanted to try out some of their cake mixes, I obviously jumped at the chance, not sure I would have known how to make a Red Velvet mix by myself haha. With Betty Crockers easy ready made mixes, all I had to do was add in the eggs, water and oil, do some mixing and some putting together and ta dahh - I finish up with a red velvet cake. I did still manage to burn the sides after having to use two different sized cake tins and thinking that they would cook at the same rate - my bad haha but I cut them off so know one would never have known and it makes it look more homemade anyway! Plus the whole cake had been eaten in two days so I cant have done that bad of a job! I have two more mixes to try out so hopefully I wont burn those as well - I'll keep you updated!