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Bodger
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Bakers and Bakeries.Bread is a commodity that many of us take for granted but there are people all over the world who make their living by being bakers and running bakeries but yesterday, I came across this website. It was something of an eye opener. I've begun to look at bread in a slightly different light.
The courses on offer and just about everything else appear hellishly expensive but having read what they have to say, it would seem that there's a call for this sort of thing and that people are prepared to stump up the money.
http://breadmatters.com/index.php?route=common/home
Its interesting stuff, that's both bread and the website and having perused it, I'm tempted to send for a copy of this book 'Bread Matters'
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet...esults?sts=t&tn=bread+matters
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Woo
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Back when I lived in England, after a rather lovely holiday here in France I set out to buy a loaf of fresh local bread...
This was on my way back from school drop off at 9am it was a 5 mile drive through 3 villages.
how many loaves of local freshly made bread could I buy?
Yes, you guessed it, I started making my own.
It was not possible to buy such a thing.
thank you Tesco etc
My Mum and Dad live on the south coast and they know a lovely polish chap who is a baker. He set up a business that no body else seemed to want to do!
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earthyvirgo
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Menai Bridge Bodger, newish bakery called 'The Pumpkin Seed Bakery' - they make proper bread every day.
Good stuff too. The woman who runs it knows a thing or two about bread-making.
EV
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robkb
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The Bread Matters book is well worth the money Bodger, very good on the science of proper bread and the practice of actually making it.
eta: Bodger, if you're thinking of buying the book from Abebooks I've just been sent a 10% discount voucher you're welcome to have
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Shan
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Back when I lived in England, after a rather lovely holiday here in France I set out to buy a loaf of fresh local bread...
This was on my way back from school drop off at 9am it was a 5 mile drive through 3 villages.
how many loaves of local freshly made bread could I buy?
Yes, you guessed it, I started making my own.
It was not possible to buy such a thing.
thank you Tesco etc
My Mum and Dad live on the south coast and they know a lovely polish chap who is a baker. He set up a business that no body else seemed to want to do! |
It's not Tesco's fault at all. We get the high streets we deserve. The simple fact is that we didn't support the butcher, bake, fish-monger and so forth and now it is increasingly difficult to find them.
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Shan
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Back when I lived in England, after a rather lovely holiday here in France I set out to buy a loaf of fresh local bread...
This was on my way back from school drop off at 9am it was a 5 mile drive through 3 villages.
how many loaves of local freshly made bread could I buy?
Yes, you guessed it, I started making my own.
It was not possible to buy such a thing.
thank you Tesco etc
My Mum and Dad live on the south coast and they know a lovely polish chap who is a baker. He set up a business that no body else seemed to want to do! |
Woo
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It's not Tesco's fault at all. We get the high streets we deserve. The simple fact is that we didn't support the butcher, bake, fish-monger and so forth and now it is increasingly difficult to find them[/quote]
I agree, i just thought it may be too controversial to say it was the fault of the shoppers who don't care anymore.
the hours are indeed very unsociable, the bakers here are open for business at 7am having mixed, proved and baked the loaves, which they do at least twice a day. our local baker, father of 4, still managed a family life
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Greggs: The baker that is stopping selling loaves
good grief Charlie brown!
why buy bread when you can buy a sandwich or a warm pie?
LynneA
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Our lovely local bakers has become so popular that they've taken on more staff and now open seven days a week - Sunday mornings just selling croissants and pastries, plus any bread left over from Saturday.
The two new bakers they've employed are Portuguese, so they now also sell the best custard tarts.
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cir3ngirl
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Our town has a bakery that has two shops.
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jamanda
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Our town has two bakers as well. And one of them has a French bloke working for them (as a result of a steamy night on a town twinning event apparently) so we get excellent croissants and baguettes as well as lardy bread and pasties.
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dpack
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town twinning is not supposed to be an opportunity to capture bakers
maybe it is
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