Flaky and savoury, these wholemeal scones are lovely just as they come, warm from the oven, but also delicious with a little butter and cheese. The fermented naked barley lends a salty, umami note; the diverse wholemeal blend flour gives a full nutty flavour; the green chives add appealing onion-y green flecks.
This twist on classic Welsh cakes uses naked barley flour, a nutritious, versatile and flavoursome alternative to wheat flour. Barley flour is subtly earthy with a delicate sweet aftertaste.
Made with deliciously wholesome ground Brazil nuts and wholemeal flour these madeleines have rich caramel notes from the browned butter, coffee and unrefined sugar. Another great excuse to eat more of our directly traded Brazil nuts to support the Kayapó communities that harvest them and help protect the Amazonian forest.
Amy Oboussier uses several of our ingredients to give this much loved dish a Hodmedod twist. Creamy nutty carlin peas are an excellent British-grown substitute for the usual black or pinto beans in refried beans.
Here’s a recipe from the early days of The Little Cooking Pot and one of Aitana's favourites. The squash makes the cake deliciously moist, whilst the fragrant ras el hanout spice mix, chunks of ginger and crunch from the Brazil nuts make every bite exciting.
This hot cross bun loaf from Izy Hossack uses a blend of wholemeal wheat and rye flour to create a rich and wholesome dough, high in fibre, packed with flavour and with a deliciously light texture thanks to the tangzhong method. It's wonderful eaten fresh or cut into slices and toasted the next day.
Delicious oatcakes, made with oatmeal and wholemeal wheat flour, leavened with yeast or sourdough and hailing from The Staffordshire Potteries. Oatcakes have a similar texture to Indian dosa, but with a wonderful nutty flavour. Most commonly served with a cooked breakfast, but they also taste wonderful with a variety of sweet and savoury toppings.
These little pies from the Cook and Him are so good they're worth making more leftovers for. The recipe uses YQ Wheat Flour for a rich pastry case, topped with Camelina Seeds for a nutty savoury crunch.
Henrietta Inman, author of The Natural Baker, and resident cook and baker at Wakelyns Agroforestry, is currently exploring the use of whole crop rotations in baking. Henrietta's ingredients are all local to Wakelyns, but for a vegan version substitute maple or apple syrup for the honey and a hard coconut oil for the butter.
Suffolk pastry chef Henrietta Inman, author of The Natural Baker, celebrates the diversity and flavour in Martin Wolfe's YQ population wheat with this delicious rhubarb cake.
Suffolk pastry chef Henrietta Inman, author of The Natural Baker, combines the nutty flavours of heritage grains with quinoa flakes, chia, walnuts, apples and honey to make a moist tea loaf - delicious hot or cold.
