The Baker’s Dozen
The Baker’s Dozen is a collection of things that make up our day. Life as bakers revolves around the wee hours. We rise long before the rest of our communities; our first loaves rise with the sun. The smell of fresh baking permeates the earliest morning, harbinger of good things to come. It’s a story as old as civilisation itself that begins with few ingredients and ends with a huge sense of satisfaction—every day, over and over.
Challah French Toast Recipe
Loaves of bread have been central to religious practices for millennia, and in Jewish traditions, making challah at home became a way of connecting to the rituals that took place in the temple. Traditionally, challah was a loaf of bread beautifully enhanced to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, sweetened with sugar and...
Apple Cake Recipe
Apples and honey are, to many, the ultimate flavours of Rosh Hashanah – a familiar and soul-warming embrace of flavours that nod lovingly to the Jewish culinary culture. Spilling with sugar-coated fruit, this delightfully dense cake is simple enough to make at home. It can be served fresh and hot...
Honey Cake Recipe
An autumn staple at GAIL’s and a beloved Rosh Hashanah treat. Rich, decadent and once a precious entity, during Rosh Hashana honey is symbolic of hope for a sweet new year. We make our honey cake dense, sticky and dark, topped with dried blue cornflower petals. These aren’t necessary, of...
The Crispiest Cookies
There aren’t many rules to our potato crisp and white chocolate cookies – the inspiration comes from American ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ cookies, made with, well, just about anything – but we do insist on one thing: using Two Farmer crisps. We also added white Islands Chocolate buttons with...
Bake At Home Cinnamon Buns
An excellent way to enjoy your favourite GAIL’s buns straight from your home oven...
GAIL’s Cinnamon Bun Crisp
We believe in making good quality products, and in finding ways to make these products go further and waste less. It’s unusual for a cinnamon bun to stick around but why not champion a way to extend the pleasure of this special treat? These crisps are amazing with our House...
GAIL’s Chocolate Spread Cookie Recipe
Spread joy with our decadent spreads. Crafted with care with friends at Islands, these spreads are simply life-changing. Choose from smooth Hazelnut & Chocolate Spread or Crunchy Hazelnut Spread, we dare you not to take both home. Islands are pioneers of the seed-to-bar movement, planting only the finest varieties in their...
Easter Pudding Recipe
A wonderful way to up-cycle any left over Hot Cross Buns...
Chocolate And Pecan Brownie Baking Kit
(Almost) everything you need to make GAIL’s decadent pecan brownies in your kitchen at home...
Chocolate chunk cookie dough
A ready-to-go batch of chocolate chunk cookie dough to bake at home...
Cheese & Beer Soda Bread Recipe
A quick, savoury, cheese & beer soda bread recipe that can be easily varied by adding thyme, sage or chives; different hard cheeses (Comté, Parmesan or Gruyère); or playing with the ratio of wholemeal to plain flour. Don’t be surprised if the batter is more cake-like than bread dough, as...
Recipe: Hot Cross Buns
There’s nothing better than a warm, lightly spiced Hot Cross Bun with butter, of course. So, to celebrate Easter we’re sharing our iconic Hot Cross Bun recipe. The below recipe will make 20 buns, so there will be plenty to go around. INGREDIENTS Buns: 20 g fresh yeast 1 tbsp. whole milk...
Blueberry Compote Pancake Recipe
Our blueberry compote pancake recipe is a treat you have to experience. Compote is a French term referring to the cooking of fruit in sugar, which combines to make a fruity syrup. They’re a doddle to make and we think are the ultimate fresh pancake topping, along with a dollop...
Recipe: Gingerbread Biscuits
Ginger warms us up, no wonder its flavour evokes the winter season like nothing else. This recipe is for the perfect gingerbread-house building biscuit. Ingredients 440g plain flour 1 tbsp ground ginger 1 tsp mixed spice 1/2 tsp ground white pepper 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda...
Cheese and Chive Scone Recipe
Our crumbly Gruyère and chive scones are best eaten straight out of the oven with lashings of melted butter, perfect for a summer picnic. Ingredients 360g plain flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp fine sea salt 170g butter, chilled and diced 250g Gruyère, grated small bunch of chives, finely...
Bacon Hot Cross Bun Sandwich Recipe
GAIL's Bacon Hot Cross Bun...
Easter Baking: Hot Cross Bun Recipe
There’s nothing better than a warm, lightly spiced Hot Cross Bun with butter, of course. So, to celebrate Easter we’re sharing our iconic Hot Cross Bun recipe. The below recipe will make 20 buns, so there will be plenty to go around. Ingredients For the Buns: 20g fresh yeast 1...
When Coffee Meets Ice Cream: An Affogato Recipe
Our coffee guru Jessica has been busy crafting a recipe to make an Affogato at home. Using our new Peruvian decaf, the chocolatey bitterness of the coffee combines perfectly with the sweet, velvety ice cream. To make 4 affogati (unless you like a lot of coffee): 40g Peru Decaf (grind...
Coconut Hot Chocolate Recipe
Inspired by a recent trip to Sri Lanka, our coffee guru Jessica has created a coconut hot chocolate, infused with cinnamon. Perfect for chilly mornings at home. To make two small mugs: 3 tbsp 100% cocoa powder (we used Zuma, a natural-process Peruvian cocoa) 1 tbsp organic coconut syrup...
The Ultimate Cheese Toastie Recipe
There’s no better antidote to cold winter weather than a hot cheese toastie, so we asked our cheesemonger and friend Rhuaridh of Buchanan’s Cheese, to share his ultimate cheese toastie recipe. Ingredients to make one toastie: 2 slices of sourdough – we used our Waste Bread 100g Caerphilly cheese...
Moroccan Lamb Harira Soup Recipe
Moroccan Harira Soup – Serves 8 – 10 as a main Traditionally eaten during Ramadan to break the fast, with a handful of medjool dates. Ingredients 700g lamb mince 3 medium onions or 2 large, chopped 8 garlic cloves, minced 5 celery stalks, diced 1 400g tin of chopped tomatoes...
How to Make the Perfect Seasonal Salad
We start by thinking about the time of year; which vegetables, legumes and leaves are in season? It’s autumn now, meaning pumpkin, squash and mushrooms are in season and as the weather gets colder, root vegetables and brassicas will be in their prime...
How to Make a Sourdough Starter
A sourdough starter is the living heart of traditional baking. Making your own is challenging to start with, but once you get the hang of it, your sourdough will become your faithful kitchen companion. If you look after your starter – feeding it, watering it – it will reward you...
French Dark Sourdough Recipe
Watch our baker, Roz, show you how to bake our French Dark Sourdough in a step-by-step video here. INGREDIENTS (makes two 500g loaves) 440g strong wholemeal flour 50g strong white flour 21⁄2 tsp fine sea salt 350ml ice-cold water 150g sourdough starter – full recipe here Whole tray of ice...
Cold Brew With Orange Recipe
Thinking ahead towards warmer weather, we wanted to share a tasty cold brew recipe to make at home. Oranges brighten the rich chocolate notes of GAIL’s House Blend for a refreshing summer brew...
Summer Recipes
Introducing our new summer salads; soups, cakes and breakfast pots...
Sourdough September
In honour of Real Bread Campaign's 'Sourdough September' this month, we will make, nurture, and bake with, our very own starter...
Buckwheat pancakes
If you’ve never tried buckwheat pancakes, weekend brunch is the ideal time...
Spring Cooking: Shakshuka Recipe
We think this breakfast makes the perfect start to a weekend. It’s simple to make and the shared nature of this dippy dish gets the whole household involved. Click the image for our recipe...
Seed Loaf Recipe
Try your hand at baking our head chef Roy’s Spelt & Seed loaf. This gorgeous South African recipe sits somewhere in between a bread and a savoury cake – which isn’t a bad place to be...
Chocolate and Marmalade Tart
Use your favourite marmalade here – one with a decent, grown-up bitterness. If it’s very thick-cut, chop the pieces of peel roughly so that it spreads easily...
GAIL’S GINGERBREAD HALLOWEEN COOKIES
Make your own GAIL's gingerbread at home...
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