Shipton Mill

Baking Great Bread

Bread is a simple food and making it is a simple process. So why is sometimes so hard to make the perfect loaf?

This section of the site aims to bring you some thoughts, tips and background on baking bread, which we hope will help you to bake great bread.

We'll be adding more articles soon. If there is a topic you would particularly like us to cover, please email baker@shipton-mill.com and let us know.

(NB - if it's recipes you're after, visit our recipes section!)

Bread Making Courses

From beginngers to experts, we can all learn more. Here are some courses provided by our friends that could help you.

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Miscellaneous information on baking

Glossary

As with any industry or hobby or skill, milling, flour and baking have their own language and phrases that to the uninitiated are words of complication and mystery.

Conversion tables

Metric to imperial and back