Lathams The Bakers Limited

Fathers Day is fast approaching, what better way to say ‘Happy Fathers Day Dad ‘ , with his very own Large Pork pie and cake 😋

All our shops are open at 9 am this morning, we have Jubilee themed fancies,bread, barm cakes,sourdoughs, fresh cream cakes ,hot pies, sausage rolls and our ‘special’ this weekend is Large Pork pies and Lemon Meringue Pie.

It’s not to late to order your Afternoon Tea boxes for Friday 3rd June (closed Thursday 2nd June)and Saturday 4th June.
Order online or one of our shops, delivery available.

All our shops open at 9am and are filled with weekends treats, Jubilee cupcakes, Gingerbread Crowns and of course bread barns and pies.
Remember you can order Afternoon Tea boxes for next week, delivery available,order in our shops or online .

Order in shops.
Telephone orders welcome.
Order online.
Open as usual 9am - 4pm Mon, Tues, Weds.

Queenie Cupcakes and Gingerbread Crowns.
Available in all our shops.

Platinum Jubilee.
We have traditional Afternoon Tea boxes available to order in our shops with a selection of sandwiches, scone, jam, cream and cakes, plus a tea bag, hot water not included 😃
£12.50 single.
£24 for two.
You can also order from our website for click n collect or delivery.

We cannot believe this post is from 2 year’s ago.
Thank you to all our customers and wholesale customers old and new for supporting us over the past 2 years, it has been a hard couple of years for us all, and it means a lot to us that you are still here with us.
Did you know we actually employ 48 staff from 14, our Saturday girls to 70, some staff stay with us after retirement age, and it’s because of all our customers we are still here after 55 years….Thank you.

We're delighted to let you know that we'll be opening the doors of our Oak Street shop on Thursday morning at 9am. Please order online from Tuesday (19th May) when our system will be ready to take orders for collection from Oak Street.

Please order online via this link: https://lathamsthebakers.co.uk/

Please note we have a two working day lead time for orders.

We ask our customers to please continue to observe social distancing and queue 2 metres apart so that we are able to protect you, as well as our staff.

So we will soon have three shops open: Birkdale, Roe Lane and Oak Street joining them this Thursday, 9am to 3pm. We look forward to seeing you!

All our shops are open from 9 am until 3.30 pm tomorrow…
All the bakers are in making , moulding,crossing,baking, icing and decorating everything to make it a tasty Easter 🐣

British Pie Week.

Potato and Steak pastie….
Shortcrust pastry surrounds potatoes, steak and just the right amount of gravy..
Steak, potatoes, onions and secret ingredients go into the oven to bake.
Rapid Chill.
Shortcrust pastry is rolled out to a thickness of 3mm and cut into circles.
The circle of pastry is put onto the the hand block and filling scooped into the centre, pull the handle down and out comes that pasty shape we all know with the ‘frilly edge’ or dinosaur back, as some of our customers say 😊
Cut in 2 air holes and out to shops to bake fresh every day.

British Pie Week.

Pork and Beef Pies.
We use a hot water pie pastry for these pies, it makes the pastry a little crisper which helps to encase the jelly around the meat.
Lean pork or lean beef are mixed with ‘our special ingredients’ and put into the pie cases , then lidded.
Baked and cooled.
A savoury pie jelly is deposited by hand into the holes of the pies to encase the meat.
Pastry, meat and jelly in every bite.
Freshness guaranteed every day.

British Pie Week…

Butter Pie.
This is another pie that the recipe has not changed in over 50 years.
The moreish pastry is made from all vegetable fat, the filling is diced potatoes which are peeled and diced by us, a good potato is needed so it ‘falls’ well when baking, a few more secret ingredients are cooked again in the oven,
Rapid Chill.
The butter is then melted and added, giving the rich creamy buttery flavour we know you love.
Fill the pie case and lid, the unmistakable 5 slits of the Butter Pie.
All our shops bake them freshly every day for you to enjoy.

British Pie Week

Steak and Kidney Pie.
This pie is our number 2 best seller. It actually take time to make this pie, it starts with locally sourced steak chunks and kidney, our magic ingredients in a tin and cooked in the oven.
Rapid cool down.
The stock is then separated from the meat to make the gravy.
Some of the gravy added back to the meat and mixed.
Deposited into the blocked out shells and lidded.
Baked freshly in all our shops for you to enjoy.

British Pie Week...

Potato & Meat Pies.

These are our best seller.
We make all our own pie fillings,even peeling and dicing the potatoes,and locally sourced beef.
We then mix them together,add a few secret ingredients and bake it.
Fill the pie case,and top with a lid .
Baked in our shops daily.
Freshness always guaranteed.

It’s British Pie week, and we know a thing or two about pies here at Lathams since we have been making them since 1967, and we still use the very same recipes as well for our pies.

Do you have a favourite pie?

www.british-pie-week.co.uk

A big thank you to all our customers for sticking with us over the festive period, we really do appreciate every single one of you.

As we now move on to another mask wearing New Year,we will still be here making and baking😃

Tomorrow we open at 9 am, we will have fresh bread, barms, pies, fresh cream cakes , frozen pies and fancies.

Hands Face Space, stay safe everyone, and Thank You.

Good morning
All our shops are open this morning from 9am.
Our bread bakers were in at midnight producing fresh bread.
The day bakers at 5am making pies, fresh cream cakes and fancies.
We close at 3.30 today.

Good morning
Just letting you know tomorrow is the last day to get all your Christmas order forms back to our shops, they are still available in shops if you have missed them..We do offer a click n collect on our website and even a deliver service.
You can also order all your barms and bread plus Christmas treats at the same time.

As you will be aware, things are changing again today,so we just wanted to let you know how it will affect you if you're coming in to any of our shops.

We will be asking if you would please wear a face covering (unless medically exempt). This would be massively appreciated by everyone.

We still have all of our Covid measures in place from a staff point of view, with screens still up and hand sanitizer station in the shops for everyone to use.

Thank you so much for your continuing co operation.

It’s that time of year again!
Our Christmas ordering sheets are out in all of our shops.
Place your orders before Saturday 18th December to guarantee you have all your Christmas ‘goodies’.
You can also now go to our website and place an order to pick up in one of our shops,or have it delivered to your front door (£1.50 delivery charge applies) www.lathamsthebakers.co.uk.

Tomorrow we say goodbye to our friend and colleague Sue Chapman,her funeral is at Southport Crematorium at 3pm.
All our shops will close at 1.30 pm.
It will be an emotional day for all of us, Sue was a massive Disney fan, so it’s fitting we will all be dressed accordingly as we join her family and friends to celebrate her life together ❤️

Today we start the week with some terribly sad news.
Over the weekend we lost our head confectioner Susan Chapman.
Sue has been here at Lathams for 38 years, she left school and came here with Mr and Mrs Latham and only a handful of staff back then.
So many cream cakes and fancies have been made by Sue over the years , she especially loved making the Hallowe’en and Christmas fancies, and has trained many staff over the years.
The bakery will be not be the same without her.
We send our heartfelt condolences to all her family and friends x

It is Sourdough September.
Sourdoughs are in our shops today, white ,malted, olive, and spelt and honey.
We make them the traditional way using a mother starter dough that we feed daily.
They are full of flavour and all natural ingredients, tasters are on our counters for you to try and will be available in our shops from Wednesday onwards next week

Today is the day for change.
Here at Lathams we are asking our customers to please continue to wear a mask if possible.
Keep social distancing.
Respect other customers and our staff.

Thank you to all our customers for all your continued support , co operation and understanding.

We are looking for a relief van driver to join our company, this would suit a retired person we feel as our other 3 drivers are ‘retired ‘ chaps.
It is to cover 12 weeks holiday a year plus any other weeks / days that might need cover.
It involves loading a van and carrying the trays into our shops and our wholesale customers,it is an active role.
6.30 am Mon- Fri / 6.00 start Saturday.
£8.94 an hour.
Must have a clean driving license and would be preferable to have driven a Transit van before.

Please call us on 01704 537929 or message us for more details.

Father’s Day is fast approaching,Saturday 20 th June,we have in our shops Choc Treats,chocolatey chocolate cake filled with chocolate fudge ,hand dipped in chocolate fudge and topped with Dad and a chocolate , and on Saturday large Pork Pies with DAD on the top, a really unique gift.
If you would like to call and place an order please do or call into any of our shops .

Good morning
Whilst most of us have been sleeping our night bakers have been in all night making todays bread ..we have white, whole meal,multigrain,cotswold crunch, donker rye,chia seed,barm cakes and subs, currant buns and our specialty sourdoughs.
Did you know it takes about 6-7 hours to make a proper tasting sourdough, and ours are so tasty.
We are proud to be one of Southports independent bakers making our bread the traditional way since 1967.

All our shops are open and packed with everything for the Easter weekend, this is our Oak St shop before we opened the doors this morning.
We are open until 3.30pm today.

All our shops are open until 3.30pm today, filled with freshly baked bread, barms, pies and hot x buns plus stacks of Easter treats and fresh cream cakes..Treat yourself or even better somebody else.

The taste of summer has arrived in our shops today 😋

Our shops are all open.
We have fresh from the oven this morning our Hot X Buns made with either white or brown flour and packed with plump currants and sultanas.
All made by hand, and the finishing touch , the cross is hand piped on before baking.

Over the past few weeks we have come under some heavy criticism over the face covering policy in our shops. We apologise to our customers, if you feel we have been too strict with this.
The bakery and three of our shops were in the centre of the new strain of the virus, we felt it important that our sales staff felt safe to come to work, as we owe a duty of care to all of our staff.
We now ask that all customers wear a face covering, if you are exempt and do not wear a face covering, we will ask you to come into the shop by yourself as we do not have the space in our shops
to have you and another customer in.
We hope you can appreciate it can be a juggling act for our sales staff at times, keeping everyone happy and safe, plus keeping the queue moving, especially in bad weather, alternatively we do have a click n collect and a delivery service available on our website.
Once again, we apologise, and thank you for your continued support.

We open at 9am today, our grills are on and ready to make bacon egg or sausage barms.
Also, we have Sourdoughs in today, made the traditional way, lovely spread with butter!
Of course we have all the usual bread, hot and frozen pies to take away with you, fresh cream cakes and of course your favourites ..Fresh Barm Cakes....See you soon 😊

A big thank you to all our customers for sticking with us over the festive period, we really do appreciate every single one of you.
As we now move into Tier 3, we will be here and remaining open.
Tomorrow we open at 9 am, we will have fresh bread, barms, pies, fresh cream cakes , frozen pies and fancies.
Click n collect and delivery is open still, via our website, if you want to use that in the coming weeks and you can always phone an order through to one of our shops.
Hands Face Space, stay safe everyone, and Thank You.

Truffle Puddings
One of our best sellers, singular or gift bagged, spoil yourself it’s the weekend.

Mince Pies are out in our shops this week, singles or boxes of six.
We use vegetable suet and vegetable fat in our pastry and the filling was made this year by our very own Chris Latham,using his ‘Nanna Latham’s’ secret recipe.
We have used this mincemeat recipe for 53 years now, we are very proud of that here at Lathams.
Traditional bakers, good quality ingredients, we think,makes a great Mince Pie.We sell hundreds of them, so our customers must think so to.

Thank you so much to all our lovely customers who bought a Poppy Cupcake 2020.
We sold 361 of them, which we think is amazing.
We will now donate £361 to the Poppy Appeal 2020.
Thank you all again for your generosity in making this happen.

Poppy Cupcake.
Poppy Appeal 2020.

Every Cupcake sold we will donate £1 to the Poppy Appeal.

Light Genoese sponge dipped in fondant and finished with a hand piped buttercream Poppy.

With another lock down on the way, we will of course remain open..We will see how the first few days go in relation to our opening hours.
Ordering is possible from our click n collect service from our website, improvements on the way at the collection at the shops.
We also have a delivery services from the website or our shops.

Please be mindful of others if you think they might want a delivery, we can pick up other things for them if needed.

As a community we want to be there for anyone that might need us, or we can help out.

Website details with shop telephone numbers.

http://www.lathamsthebakers.co.uk/

Lathams The Bakers – Southport