pastry
SHELF LIFE: Weekly round-up
Here is your weekly round-up of Shelf Life news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com. Produced by Smithfield Foods, French’s Hot Dogs are the latest addition to the brand’s range of mustard, relishes, sauces, and salad dressings on offer in […]
Curry pastries
Pastry manufacturer Peter’s Food Service, based in South Wales, UK, has struck a licensing deal with Asian cuisine brand Sharwood’s to launch a new range of Sharwood’s chilled pastry bakes. Working in partnership with Sharwood’s brand owner Premier Foods, Peter’s will manufacture, market and sell a new range of naan-shaped pastry bakes flavoured with Sharwood’s […]
Complete range
Frozen ready meal company Classic Cuisine’s new festive range includes traditional festive favourites as well as seafood, vegetarian and free-from options. The range includes the turkey tornedo, with turkey wrapped in crispy streaky bacon, topped with a cranberry and orange stuffing and finished with a cinnamon jus; the smoked salmon roulade, a light suet pastry […]
French chocolatiers oppose health labels
The French government’s proposal to classify food using colour-coded labels, ranging from green to red, in a bid to combat growing obesity in the country has been met by resistance from the Confederation of French Chocolate and Pastry Makers. The Confederation – which represents more than 4,500 chocolatiers and pastry makers in France – has […]
Classic Cuisine introduces seafood meals
Classic Cuisine, the UK frozen food manufacturer, has introduced its latest selection of meals focusing on seafood. The seafood and fish range includes a crab tart with fire roasted peppers encased in a crisp polenta pastry. Another innovative seafood dish is the smoked salmon roulade where smoked salmon and cream cheese is wrapped within a […]
New low-fat baking ingredient from Trimbake
A new baking replacement ingredient called Trimbake, which reduces baked recipes by up to 75% of the original fat content and 50% of the usual sugar content, is being launched in the UK. Trimbake is made up of a blend of apples, prunes, water, squash, carrots and lentils. Each packet of Trimbake can be used […]
Seafood specialists cater for foodservice industry with new tartlets
Chapman’s Seafoods is launching its new range of seafood tartlets and open tarts. Using local ingredients for their handmade products, including fishcakes, wellingtons and pies, the range includes: Mediterranean Salmon Tartlets – Packed with salmon in a rich tomato sauce, topped with roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and feta cheese. Smoked Haddock Florentine Tartlets – Filled with smoked […]
Wild berry fruit fillings from Puratos
Puratos has launched its new Topfil range of fruit fillings for its bakery, patisserie and chocolate customers. The range includes up to 60% wild fruit sourced from the Baltic forests. Puratos has selected wild berries for its fruit filling range. Consumer tests and sensory taste panels show a preference for wild berries over cultivated berries, […]
Eziglaze added to clean label glaze range
Ulrick & Short, a British owned clean label starch specialist, has announced the extension of its range of clean label non-GM glazes, to include Eziglaze C. The Eziglaze range has now been extended for all different pastry types and is suitable for hot cross buns, sausage rolls, chilled or frozen pies, morning goods, among other […]
Tate & Lyle signs Soda-Lo agreement
Tate & Lyle has announced that it has signed an exclusive, worldwide licence agreement with Eminate, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Nottingham, UK, for its novel salt reduction technology. The product, currently known as ‘Soda-Lo’, enables added salt levels to be reduced by up to 30 per cent in foods such as […]
INGREDIENTS: Tastes like…
Fayrefield Foods Ireland has launched Butter-Like – the ultimate butter extender replacer. Butter-Like has the buttery flavour essential for pastry, biscuits, shortbreads and quality laminated pastry products. Developed to replicate the physical properties of butter in every way, Butter-Like delivers these properties at a significant discount to the cost of butter. Its similarity to butter […]
PROCESSING: Machinery first for bakery
As part of a £1 million investment programme, a Milton Keynes bakery is the first in the UK to install Kanig’s new concept low stress bread line. The machinery has been by bought by Giles Foods, for its rapidly expanding Pain Artisan bakery which produces frozen, chilled and ambient baked and part-baked speciality breads and […]
Northern Foods disposal
Northern Foods has reached agreement for the proposed disposal of its speciality breads, chilled pastry, cakes and flour milling businesses for a gross consideration of £160 million (£236m). The transaction is expected to complete in January 2007 and is subject to approval by the shareholders of Northern Foods. Together with the disposal of the business […]
£3 million quiche investment for Thomas Food
Quiche manufacturer Thomas Food Group (TFG) is embarking upon a new development programme targeting the premium end of the market. In particular, the company is developing a new range of premium quiches aimed at the rapidly expanding food-to-go market. A £3 million (£4.4m) investment programme is currently underway at its two production sites in Milton […]