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  • Close-up of a round loaf of bread with a thick coating of white flour on its crust. A wide split across the top has opened during baking. The exposed dough is browned to dark brown and almost black at the edges, and the crumb inside shows irregular air holes. The background is out of focus in dark grey.

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  • Angled shot of a baked wild rabbit ragù pie in an oval tin with the puff pastry lid lifted back, revealing shredded braised wild rabbit ragù filling, with a sprig of rosemary in the foreground, and a bowl of fennel, rocket and apple salad and a small bowl of tomato sauce in the background.
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    GEOFF’s Wild Rabbit Ragù Pies…

    ByAncientGrains63 18/08/202618/08/2026

    ⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readThese pies are built from the same ragù as GEOFF’s Braised Wild Rabbit Ragù with Pappardelle… -— one rabbit, braised with white wine, pancetta, sage, rosemary, and Bone Roasters veal stock, then pulled from the bone. The veal stock sets the filling as it cools overnight in the fridge, which is what gives these pies…

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  • A split charcoal brioche roll filled with a lamb patty, sliced tomato, cheese, avocado and lettuce, served on a white plate.
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    GEOFF’s Multi-Coloured Brioche Rolls…

    ByAncientGrains63 14/07/202617/08/2026

    ⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readI made these brioche rolls as a double batch just to play with colour – turmeric folded through one half, activated charcoal through the other. The base is Richard Bertinet’s brioche formula from Crumb, one of the lightest enriched doughs I use – not sweet, so it sits well next to savoury fillings. I mix…

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  • GEOFF’s Fresh Fig, Walnut and Rye Bread…
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    GEOFF’s Fresh Fig, Walnut and Rye Bread…

    ByAncientGrains63 09/03/202618/06/2026

    ⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 7 min readThe memory that sits behind this loaf takes me back to 1990 and the opening of a hotel at Brighton Le Sands in Sydney. I was there with my significant other for breakfast, and what stayed with me wasn’t the standard continental breakfast or the coffee but a fig and walnut bread, still warm with…

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  • GEOFF’s Spiced Fresh Fig Cake with Honey Mascarpone…
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    GEOFF’s Spiced Fresh Fig Cake with Honey Mascarpone…

    ByAncientGrains63 09/03/202605/07/2026

    ⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readThere’s a short window each autumn when fresh figs are at their peak, and I was lucky enough to pick these directly from Willabrand Figs – fruit straight off the tree doesn’t get much better. My preference for a cake like this is Spanish figs – their density and sweetness are hard to beat –…

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