Heritage Flour News

There are some years that you cannot blink in February, 'cos if you do, as soon as you're done celebrating Valentine's Day it's Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent starts.  This is one of those years, since we'll be celebrating Shrove Tuesday on February 25th, just a week from now. Shrove Tuesday, as we all know, is also known as Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras by the French-speaking world, or Pancake Day by their British and American counterparts, and in the past was the day we were supposed to purge our larders of such ingredients as eggs, butter and cream in...

  Some recipe classics never go out of fashion.  Here's our pick for this year's Hanukkah and Christmas season!  Tell us what you think! Breakfasts and Snacks Apple Cider Donuts Ingredients   (for about 12 standard - 24 mini donuts) 1 cup (8 fl oz) apple cider (reduced to 3/8 cup or 6 tablespoons) 1 cinnamon stick 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted ¼ cup (1¾ oz/50g) granulated sugar ¼ cup (1¾ oz/50g) light brown sugar 6 tablespoons buttermilk 1 egg 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract ½ teaspoon cinnamon 1¾ cups (7⅓ oz/ 210g) Organic Einkorn Pancake & Baking Mix Method Reduce the apple cider on a stove. Pour your apple...

Picking up from where we left off in our first blog about Baking Mixes (see here) we now want to look at how to use the same baking mix we used to make the biscuits, scones and dumplings in that article to make batter recipes such as  Muffins, Coffee Cakes, Steamed Puddings, Pancakes and Waffles. Since these baked goods are wetter and sweeter that the first ones we'll be naturally increasing our liquids and upping the butter and sugar content.  Batters: Muffins, Coffee Cakes, Pancakes, Waffles: Muffins (12.5 - 40% sugar) Muffins have relatively little fat or sugar, and are...

I'm picking right up from where we left off this time last year, when I shared a couple recipes any of us could make at home that were simpler versions of that most marvellous of Sicilian Easter desserts, the "Cassata Siciliana".  The first recipe I'd like to share this time is for another Sicilian specialty, the "Torte di Mandorle" , which is a wonderfully simple but utterly sublime-tasting cake.  When I was growing up this was the cake reserved for special occasions: weddings, baptisms, and other celebratory life events, including major holidays.  This is a different cake that most other...

We’re a day away from celebrating Shrove Tuesday, which is the last day before Lent begins.  Pancakes became especially popular for Shrove Tuesday as a way to use up both the supply of eggs and fat that a family might have stored away, since it was traditional to abstain from consuming both during the forty days of Lent. And, just in time, we've added a couple of new pancake recipes made with our Organic Einkorn Pancake & Baking Mix.  If you still have some eggs and milk in your pantry that need using up before Lent, then why not make...