Day 3: still using loaf #2 of the Shepherd’s Bread for breakfast toast and it is still good. Lovely moist chewy inside, golden toasted outside, no sign of off-ness or reduced flavours. Cheese-making is cancelled due to lack of milk supplies at the shop this morning – they had only the Pure, micro-filtered stuff. Clearly …
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Forward Planning
I have been given a Rum Pot! Don’t recognise that? Try Rumtopf. It is very 1970s, I know – but I care not. I have wanted to have a go for what seems like forever. I shall start the pot off the next time that I go shopping, when I shall buy rum and a …
Time to calm down
I do believe that it is time to apologise for the onslaught of posting and to reassure the nervous reader that this posting rate will not continue. It really was just a matter of, having decided to establish this blog, getting it up to date so that nothing was forgotten. We are up to date …
BBC News – Bread that lasts for 60 days could cut food waste
BBC News – Bread that lasts for 60 days could cut food waste. Heard this on the radio news at lunch time. Agreed with DH that I have returned to the kitchen not one moment too soon. But really, folks, why are you letting this happen? Bread pudding, anyone? Treacle Tart? Summer Pudding? C’mon, there’s …
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River Cottage Handbook No.3 Bread
Bread: River Cottage Handbook No. 3 is written by Daniel Stevens, and introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Daniel works for Hugh at River Cottage. It is a compact hardback volume numbering just over 200 pages. Every single page is either informative, entertaining, or just plain beautiful. There is no dross in this book. Honestly, if you …