Are You Prepared To Celebrate National Home Baking Day This Year?
Five Reasons Why It Might Be Good To Be Involved
Let’s be honest as home baking enthusiasts, we don’t tend to need an excuse to get out the baking materials and indulge ourselves, but just in case you do need a reason, it's National Home Baking Day on the 17th of November, so it's time to put in some planning and preparation so that you can take part in the celebrations. Alternatively, if you have always wanted to get into the world of home baking but haven’t taken that first step, then National Home Baking Day could provide you with the inspiration and confidence to take that first step. In addition to ending up with delicious goodies once your baking is complete, here are five reasons why home baking could be an excellent choice.
1 Baking Can Calm You Down
The baking process helps calm you down, forcing your mind to focus on the task at hand and stop fretting over other things in your life that may be causing you stress.
Obviously, the complexities of baking will depend on the recipe you choose. Still, the process of measuring out ingredients, mixing your cake, decorating it, and simply following a recipe provides you with a structure that many people find therapeutic.
2 Baking Is One of Those Activities That Nourishes the Soul
Certain tasks in life, while essential to everyday life, tend to be, if not depressing, not beneficial to your overall feeling of well-being. Chores such as ironing or washing the dishes are good examples of these. Baking, on the other hand, is quite the opposite. You are essentially creating something from nothing, which eventually, you and your loved ones will get to enjoy.
3 Baking Can Be Relatively Easy
Baking is one of those activities that can be as easy or as complex as you need it to be. This means that anyone from your 5-year-old son or daughter to a leading baker in a French patisserie can create a delicious treat that they can be proud of.
The only barrier to success is the level of difficulty that you, as the baker, choose. This means that you can work your way up to a level that you are happy with without any stress or hassle.
4 Let Your Creative Juices Flow
In a bakery, a sausage roll has to look like a sausage roll, a scone-like a scone and a crumpet-like a crumpet. But as a home baker, you are free to break with tradition and experiment.
Fancy purple sausage rolls, then add a little food colouring. Want to do something special for Christmas, then use National Home Baking Day to practise before the big event.
5 Baking Provides You With The Opportunity To Make Other People Happy
Ask most adults and one of the things they miss the most is enjoying their mum's cooking for baking. When you establish a reputation for baking fantastic bread, delicious mince pies or chewy meringues, people will come from far away to your family gatherings just for the food. Many home bakers we speak to invest time in baking because they know it makes their loved ones feel really good.
Invest In A Bread Maker
If you perhaps don’t have the time but still want fresh home baked bread, then potentially the best investment you can make is in a bread maker. Once you have experienced the numerous benefits that a breadmaker can deliver you will wonder how you ever managed without them. Although at Nelstrop we deal with hundreds of artisan bakers running businesses, we also are one of the most popular producers of flour for home bakers using bread makers and baking by hand. Our high-quality flour is perfect for your needs and ensures you receive the perfect loaf repeatedly.
Plan Prepare and Organise
The first thing to do before you start any baking process is to plan things out properly, ensuring that you have all the appropriate ingredients to hand and any necessary equipment. If indeed this is your first home baking experience, it is important to understand that the quality of the ingredients you choose is directly related to the taste, texture and outcome of any baking project. Whilst it might be tempting to save some money by using a lower cost flour for instance, there is a reason why Nelstrop Flours is trusted by thousands of artisan bakers up and down the country. As our motto goes, “Better baking starts with better flour”.
There are a virtually unlimited number of recipes or baked goods that you could choose to make on National Home Baking Day.
At Nelstrops, we are passionate about good quality home baking and our part in the process. With over 200 years of flour-making experience, we know what is required to ensure a good quality loaf.
For advice or to discuss your flour needs you are always welcome to contact our friendly, helpful and knowledgeable team.