A. Baker is the largest and most popular of the lot – it's open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and, as the name suggests, bakes its own bread and pastries.
The simplest syrup comes from Butcher, who, although she also gives a more conventional recipe, informs me that originally these pastries would have been made with honey or date syrup, and supplies a version that uses these, melted in water.
Seal and Butcher both make baklava rolls, rather than the more conventional layered pastries; it's a quicker method, but a less satisfying one, as the smaller ratio of pastry to filling allows them to absorb less syrup.
Most recipes add the syrup as soon as or shortly after the pastries come out of the oven, so it can be absorbed as they cool, but Roden shares a highly "unorthodox secret trick" of her aunt Latifa's – she returns the syrupy baklava to the oven for five minutes, explaining that "the pastry made this way is among the best I have eaten".
Then you can linger for as long as you like over mini pastries and coffee.
Breakfast comprises homemade breads, pastries and jams, with lots of fresh fruit and local duck eggs.
Nowadays, there are plenty of purveyors of gluten-rich goodies in Canberra, yet Silo still manages to trump the competition with its focused selection of breads and pastries.
We also create a range of pastries and cakes and the bakery has a small cafe where we serve sandwiches at lunchtime, and sourdough pizza on Fridays.
Pork Farms looks likely to get the final go-ahead to take a bigger slice of the UK's £1bn chilled savoury pastry market after the interim report on its acquisition of the chilled savoury pastries division of Kerry Foods.
Remove the pastries from the oven, allow to cool, then slice in half horizontally.
"We're debuting our first line of chocolate confections," says Mast. "We've been doing it sort of casually in Brooklyn, putting out a few bonbons and pastries here and there, but this is our first complete collection: small chocolates with various ganaches made with single-origin, single-estate cocoa beans".
