Home on the Range – Bread, Scones, Cakes & Biscuits

Appears in

Lavender & Lovage: A Culinary Notebook of Memories & Recipes From Home & Abroad

Published 2019

About

Of all the chapters in this book this is probably my most favourite as I love to bake. I feel so lucky that I’ve had the best of teachers (my grandmothers and my mum) who taught me how to bake as well as instilling the love of baking in me too. Although I was born in South Africa and I’ve travelled and lived all over the world, I am British and I feel that ours is a nation with a rich and diverse bread making history with the most marvellous quirky names.

Go to most regional bakeries and you’ll still see bloomers, cobs, cottage loaves, baps, barm cakes, bannocks, Kentish huffkins, Sally Lunns, stotty cakes, farmhouse tin, buttery rowies and granary bread for sale to name just a few. In fact, we have over 200 different types of bread in Britain. The numerous regional varieties of bread provide us with a rich culinary map of our nation with some being well known and some not so well known outside of their own villages, towns or regions.