The bakers' thread

[Reynard]

Or gulab jamun.🤤

 

[Reynard]

Just come back from Tesco (Ely), and they have their own brand atta flour in stock at £5.50 for the 10kg sack. So worth looking around if you've got more than one Tesco locally.

Other than that, no bags of bread flour of any kind bigger than 1.5kg.

 

[Gwylan]

I wish someone would tell my local Asian supermarket, where the lowest price of a 10Kg bag of atta flour is £13.74!
https://www.falcononline.co.uk/rice-flour-grains?cat=251&size=415&product_list_order=price

I expect the price of bread flour in Lidl will increase, but the last bags I bought, on 1/8/2022, were 75p for 1.5 Kg, white and wholemeal.
50p per Kg versus 1.37? Hmmm, decisions, decisions!
Best bargain lately has been fairly short shelf life strong brown flour at Morrison's at 35p for 1.5Kg!

Where is your Morissons! 1985?

 

[Gwylan]

Just come back from Tesco (Ely), and they have their own brand atta flour in stock at £5.50 for the 10kg sack. So worth looking around if you've got more than one Tesco locally.

Other than that, no bags of bread flour of any kind bigger than 1.5kg.

Not the Canton one then?

 

[Poacher]

Where is your Morissons! 1985?

As already mentioned, short shelf life (best before end of this month), reduced from original £1.39 to 35 p for quick sale.
No worries, it'll be used!
They also had (lots of) 500gm bags of organic quinoa flakes, BB mid November, reduced from £4.25 to £1.07.
I only bought one because I wasn't sure what to do with it!

 

[Reynard]

As already mentioned, short shelf life (best before end of this month), reduced from original £1.39 to 35 p for quick sale.
No worries, it'll be used!
They also had (lots of) 500gm bags of organic quinoa flakes, BB mid November, reduced from £4.25 to £1.07.
I only bought one because I wasn't sure what to do with it!

Short date isn't an issue - will still be good for a year or two yet.

Multigrain bread. I love adding wheat, rye or oat flakes to my breads, so why now quinoa?

 

[Julia9054]

Ukrainian makoviy rulet with the addition of apples. Škoda for scale. Please come round and help me eat it!!!

 

[Reynard]

Ukrainian makoviy rulet with the addition of apples. Škoda for scale. Please come round and help me eat it!!!

Ooooooo, poppy seed cake!

 

[Julia9054]

Ooooooo, poppy seed cake!

. . . . the size of a Brompton wheel!!!!

 

[Reynard]

. . . . the size of a Brompton wheel!!!!

Good lord!!!

You do know that it's a "must have" for Christmas...

 

[Tom B]

There is local Germanic/ Bavarian bakery near me

http://pretzelandspelt.co.uk/

Angelica started selling flour during lockdown and I've been buying it in 15kg sacks ever since.

It's from nelstrops who also sell online

http://www.nelstrop.co.uk/collections/all

I use their empress green which doesn't seem to be on the website, for most things.


Pretzel and Spelt advertised some pretzel buns on the Facebook this week, I tried one on the way to work and meant to get some more yesterday, bit I turned up too late....

So I made some this morning.. with a overnight dough.

Not as shiny as the pros, and I'd lost my lame so the cuts arnt as good, but not bad for a first efforts and they taste good :-)

Made pizza last night too.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I made some cinnamon swirls today.
Sorry, I ate two before I remembered to take a picture .

Vanilla frosting made with butter, cream cheese, vanilla and icing sugar. Needed more cinnamon but a lovely soft bun nonetheless.

 

[Reynard]

I made an apple and ginger upside down cake.

 

[Tom B]

....Needed more cinnamon but a lovely soft bun nonetheless.

Nothing ever needs more cinnamon... Vile stuff :-p. Tastes like primary school pencil sharpenings.


I made a steamed jam pudding. It lasted about 1 min after being turned out before it was gobbled up. I've been challenged to to a chocolate one, with a chocolate sauce instead of jam. But not sure how I'm going to do the sauce.

 

[figbat]

Nothing ever needs more cinnamon... Vile stuff :-p. Tastes like primary school pencil sharpenings.


I made a steamed jam pudding. It lasted about 1 min after being turned out before it was gobbled up. I've been challenged to to a chocolate one, with a chocolate sauce instead of jam. But not sure how I'm going to do the sauce.

Chocolate and butter, with some golden syrup maybe. Melt together, probably best to cool a bit before using with the pudding batter.