NON BREAD LOVERS LOOK AWAY NOW!!!!
Bread is my downfall. I love sandwiches, all types of sandwiches, and anything on toast - beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese - bring it on! Every week I make bread, although nowadays it is in a bread-making machine. I dribble and drool at the bakery section of the supermarket at all the lovely shapes and different types they sell. There aren't many days in my life when I haven't eaten bread in one form or another. If I pass by a real bakery - I am lured in by the smell of fresh bread and stand there indecisively trying to decide which to pick. The crusty large white tin loaf or the small wholemeal with oats scattered on top - or maybe a few rolls, baps, cobs. And what about lovely cotttage loaves. The list is endless.
I particularly like artisan bread which is a little bit rustic and is described as hand-crafted bread, using no artificial ingredients or preservatives - with all the different flavours, nuts, seeds and fruit which can be added.
Then there are the Italian breads like
CIABATTA
and
FOCACCIA
and what about all those lovely French BAGUETTES
This is described as the
BEST BREAD EVER - Take 1 French loaf and cut in half. Spread thickly with butter and place on a baking tray in a hot over for 10 minutes until the butter is melted and soaked into the bread. Remove from oven and place under the grill till the butter starts to brown and blacken. This is when the flavour really kicks in, when the butter colour changes. Slice into strips and serve immediately. (Taken from The Pioneer Woman.
The best bread for me is crusty, moist and slightly chewy. When we used to visit my Grandma as children I have vivid memories of bread rising in a 'pansion' at the side of the fire with a clean tea towel over the top . She used to make 'barm' bread, large round flat loaves with floury dusted tops that tasted lovely and yeasty.
I mean - what could be nicer than a bacon sandwich on a Sunday morning, no fancy ingredients, just bacon - with perhaps a fried egg included - and a dollop of brown sauce. It has been the undoing of many a vegetarian!
So I say, three cheers for bread - the staff of life for hundreds of years - and I don't mean white sliced 'pappy' bread in a plastic bag - I mean the real stuff.
See
here for the history of bread.
My very favourite is a fresh baguette - but it has to be in France, of course!
ReplyDeleteOh now you're being picky
DeleteYummy Elaine, Ciabatta, no they all look tasty imagine the smell ooooohhhh divine.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I had a egg and bacon toasted sandwich very unhealthy but simply scrumptious
You're making my mouth water David
DeleteI wish I could take you my favourite small village baker in Freyssinet le Gelat. You would be in heaven (as I am every time I visit).
ReplyDeleteMy mouth's watering just thinking about it Cro.
DeleteLike you I have a love of bread and would find it hard to give it up completely. I'm so lucky that my husband makes all our bread (I do the cakes and scones etc) he is always trying different varieties of bread and has experimented using historic recipes too for his bread website - some of those are quite challenging to our modern tastes:) I've loved reading this post.
ReplyDeleteHi Rosie - Could you let me know what the name of his website is - I would love to read it. I have found that if I am on a diet - the easiest way for me to lose weight - is to give up bread. It is not easy to do without it so generaly my trying to give it up is a complete failure!
DeleteI like bread, and I'm quite happy with a just a plain roll with a tasty filling. Flighty xx
ReplyDeleteSimple is often the best way with bread - toast with lashings of butter dripping down your chin - what more could anyone want.
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