What is your favourite Bakery food?

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Aliya » 30th Oct, '09, 09:44

LOL a Sally Lunn!

OK on the menu will be REAL pies, sossige rolls, All Grain bread (sort of like Vogels although sadly noone does Vogels like Vogels yum), sour dough bread, SALLY LUNNS (we had forgotten about them Poss thanks!), French bread, steak and kidney pudding, and anything else you want!
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by baloo » 30th Oct, '09, 10:07

I would recommend doing only a few items but doing them right.

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Aliya » 30th Oct, '09, 10:15

Yes that is why we are starting with pies, sossige rolls, bread and cakes. Once they are going well then we will add. Bread items like Sally Lunns are easy to make, we will be making about 15 lines of bread and buns which is consisent with what the bakery was turning out anyway, but just making them better with good quality ingredients and add ons like Sally Lunns. The bread sold before in the bakery was inedible!
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by BoD » 30th Oct, '09, 10:16

BreadTalk seem to do OK by doing hundreds of items dreadfully..
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by baloo » 30th Oct, '09, 10:18

BoD wrote:BreadTalk seem to do OK by doing hundreds of items dreadfully..
Their target audience isn't Aliya's
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Aliya » 30th Oct, '09, 10:18

Yes they do. But we are not BreadTalk. We just want to make good quality stuff like wot you get at home...
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by slinky » 30th Oct, '09, 11:01

Poss mentioned Lolly Cakes -- is that specifically a NZ thing? I had Lolly Cakes in NZ & thought they were yummy, so if you do them like that, I might have to buy one or two ;)

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Aliya » 30th Oct, '09, 11:02

Lolly Cakes??? Must be some weird Naki thing but we are game for any ideas...
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Scrummy Mummy » 30th Oct, '09, 11:24

From a marketing point of view, you might want to display lots of information about the products, highlighting any health features. Not entirely sure you can make stea and kidney pudding healthy, but you can suggest they eat it with broccoli :D

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Aliya » 30th Oct, '09, 11:31

How did you get in and take that picture without us seeing you!!!

Broccoli and kidney together!! Devil's food, bleuch...
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Morrolan » 30th Oct, '09, 11:49

Aliya wrote:sossige rolls
sossige??? :shock:

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Possum » 30th Oct, '09, 12:05

Could be, I would need to see a picture :) It is a raisin bun (about dinner plate size)thingie with a special coconut icing top. You slice it like a loaf and spread with butter....yum yum
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Bender » 30th Oct, '09, 12:14

Custard tarts, chocolate croissant. Make those and I'll be there!

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Pinklepurr » 30th Oct, '09, 12:48

Possum wrote:Could be, I would need to see a picture :) It is a raisin bun (about dinner plate size)thingie with a special coconut icing top. You slice it like a loaf and spread with butter....yum yum

Now I would call that a Boston Bun....huge raisin bun with soft white and thick icing with coconut on top. Used to love them..just thinking of them probably adds a few kgs :oops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_bun

I missed coffee scrolls and similar in Singapore, now I am back I just avoid going anywhere near bakeries...way too tempting.


Edit: added the wiki link
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by baloo » 30th Oct, '09, 12:53

One thing I fell in love with when I went back home last time were Vegemite scrolls. yummy.
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Pinklepurr » 30th Oct, '09, 13:01

Yum, yep I used to make those for UN day at school.
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Possum » 30th Oct, '09, 13:09

That looks like the same...the icing can also be pink.
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Batwoman » 30th Oct, '09, 14:35

For me it's the old English favourites that you used to get when you were a kid from the local bakery -supermarkets do have a lot to answer for as what they sell really is just not the same.

Proper well rounded doughnuts with rasperry jam filling, covered in crunchy sugar (not iced, not icing sugar & certainly not ringed or half flat ones!)

Treacle Tart

Bakewell Tart

Gypsy Tart - This is from my home county Kent and really reminds me of home
What it should look like

Iced buns - those one that just had white or pink icing on top are they called "Swiss Buns"?

Cornish Pasties

Ooooooh when can I come over and help with some baking :)

Edited because I can't spell doughnuts correctly! lol
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Aliya » 30th Oct, '09, 14:47

Batty, come Saturday, we are closed and bakin!!!!!
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Lili Von Shtupp » 30th Oct, '09, 14:53

Gooey brownies. Too many bakeries here make brownies that are hard, dry and crumbly, with hardly any chocolate richness at all. For me they should be soft and gooey and must melt in your mouth. :) mmmmmmmm
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Aliya » 30th Oct, '09, 15:05

Agree. Brownies and sugar coated donuts are goodies.
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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by Zwiebel » 30th Oct, '09, 19:49

There are some wonderful cakes you could try making, but are you making a cake shop or a bread shop? I think the best start is to do a smaller range of goods but do them really well, then introduce new items one month at a time to see if they sell.

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Re: What is your favourite Bakery food?

Post by cromasaig » 30th Oct, '09, 21:43

BoD wrote:BreadTalk seem to do OK by doing hundreds of items dreadfully..
Before you say that, go to the BreadTalk in Paragon and treat yourself to a Curse of the Golden Shower 'Cures of the Golden Flower'. Basically, it's a cream bun, coated in white chocolate with flaked almonds on the top.

It may well be the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

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