Bread: The Staff of Life

[amateur51]

I make two large wholemeal loves every week or so, by hand, and I really enjoy it. We eat one straight away, while freezing the second one for later, and it tastes great. I'll just add modestly that my cheery and ginger cake is to die for, likewise the currant fruit slice!

Are they well-bred boys, these loves of whom you speak Ferret?

Course they are, they've come from the yeast



With due acknowledgement to a Whitehall farce of the late 1950s-early 1960s -

[Caliban]

Are they well-bred boys, these loves of whom you speak Ferret?

It's free cheery cake that lures 'em in!

[arancie33]

We've made our own bread for about 47 years now (ever since there was a major bakers' strike - I think!). Six loaves per batch and whoever notices that we're down to the last loaf rolls their sleeves up ...... The best tradition we have is that on baking day ie about once a week, as soon as the second batch is out we have a cup of tea and a hot crust slathered with butter and marmite. Apologies to whomsoever that may cause offence

My biggest achievement in bread making though is to make pitta bread that actually opens out. Small beer to some maybe but it beats the heck out of the supermarket poly wrapped stuff. And La Signora swears by it for breakfast next day with plenty of marmalade.

[Caliban]

a cup of tea and a hot crust slathered with butter and marmite.

pitta bread that actually opens out.

Sounds to me like Paradise in Arancie Towers

[amateur51]

Sounds to me like Paradise in Arancie Towers

Triffic! The simple pleasures

[arancie33]

Triffic! The simple pleasures

Our assorted and far flung offspring have been known to comment that "You two do know how to look after yourselves!" The art seems heritable too - many email interchanges are based on photos of "wot we ate tonight"

[Ferretfancy]

Are they well-bred boys, these loves of whom you speak Ferret?

Course they are, they've come from the yeast



With due acknowledgement to a Whitehall farce of the late 1950s-early 1960s -

Now ! Now ! These days two loves a week are beyond me, well bred or not ! As for cherries I draw a veil!

[amateur51]

Our assorted and far flung offspring have been known to comment that "You two do know how to look after yourselves!" The art seems heritable too - many email interchanges are based on photos of "wot we ate tonight"

Well Ludlow has a fine reputation for restaurants, food markets, good butchers & cheesemongers - I often spent a weekend there when I was working. I bet it looks good in this sunshine arancie - long may it continue to do so

[arancie33]

Well Ludlow has a fine reputation for restaurants, food markets, good butchers & cheesemongers - I often spent a weekend there when I was working. I bet it looks good in this sunshine arancie - long may it continue to do so

On behalf of Ludlow, thank you for your kind remarks, Ams (may I?). Busy today with visitors and natives alike so we scuttled off to Herefs for a pub lunch with friends from thereabouts. Ludlow restaurants do have good reputation but we don't really use them. Much prefer to take advantage of excellent butchers etc and dine in style at home. Save a bomb too

[amateur51]

On behalf of Ludlow, thank you for your kind remarks, Ams (may I?). Busy today with visitors and natives alike so we scuttled off to Herefs for a pub lunch with friends from thereabouts. Ludlow restaurants do have good reputation but we don't really use them. Much prefer to take advantage of excellent butchers etc and dine in style at home. Save a bomb too

Don't blame you, arancie and of course you can call me whatever you like

I forgot to mention that Ludlow has some fine ale houses too - I think there was one called The Unicorn and a couple around the market area

For a while it seemed to be the perfect slice of England, having as it did Julian Critchley, superwet Tory ex-MP, as a resident