The price of a loaf of bread

smileyt_2

silvercharming wrote: »

Subject to some frantic negotiations with OH I may be buying one of those mills too! :j



You have to use your imagination. I'm thinking one of those white food buckets, artfully draped with a throw and used as an occasional table or a footstool. Because I live in a tiny bungalow and there is NOWHERE else left! :rotfl:

Yup, you could stick a table lamp on top and no-one would ever know you had your own wheat supply under there.:rotfl:

thriftmonster

OOOH thanks guys - I've just ordered one as well - have been looking at them enviously on other sites but couldn't justify the expense. This site is doing well this week - I snaffled one of the 99p newspaper brick makers as well.

paulwf

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

Now I've tried the Doves farm yeast and couldn't get it to work. I did contact them and they suggested it could have been related to the fact that their product doesn't contain Vitamin C and the sachets do. Even bought Vit C powder and still couldn't get a decent loaf. For me the sachets are worth it and not because I can't be bothered to take a teaspoon out

I use the small tins of Hovis or Allinson dried active yeast...Allinson is 64p for 125g in Sainsburys for example.

Apologies if you already know this but some people don't realise that yeast is a living organism - a type of fungus - so you have to treat it with a lot more TLC than chemicals such as baking powder.

With the dried active yeast (as opposed to the sachets) the yeast needs to be activated by being in water at blood heat and with an energy source i.e. sugar for about 10 minutes so that it can reawaken and start doing its magic. 1 teaspoon in 300ml of warm water and 3 teaspoons of sugar works fine.

The reason for mentioning it is a living organism is that you can't put the yeast in a jug then add boiling hot water then cold...the boiling water will most likely kill it. Also you can't leave out the sugar...that is what the yeast feeds on.

Larumbelle

silvercharming wrote: »

Subject to some frantic negotiations with OH I may be buying one of those mills too! :j

Rats. I lost the negotiations But on the plus side, I've found that if I buy ready milled stone ground flour by the bucket it works out cheaper than my current best price!

Gigervamp

ceridwen wrote: »

Ooh...thats a brave lady there...takes hat off to....

I'd be interested to have a report of your progress on here about how to make bread all the way from scratch, ie first mill your own grains.

...goes off scratching head again thinking "I'm sure if I think hard enough I can work out how to store a sack of wheat SOMEWHERE in my little home.....":)

When I mentioned it to hubby, he asked where I was planning on putting it. Told him I've still yet to work that one out! :rotfl:

loopylou121

I won't pay more than £1 for a family sized loaf - but keep meaning to use the bread machine - when I get round to it. Trying not to eat too much bread though and trampolining to keep fit. Home-made bread and butter is just too good!

Farway

I find my local Morrison's usually has an offer every week of one of their own loaves, this week it is large wholemeal [800g I think] for 50p, a week or so back it was white tin

Wish they wouldn't as they stack them near the door and I get one and eat it, and my belt has had to go up one notch now

competitionscafe

Good article here:
How to bake wholemeal bread - Felicity's perfect wholemeal bread – with thanks to Dan Lepard.

(I would suggest half the amount of salt though!)

markliznco

Recently got into bread making myself, by starting with a Jamie Oliver recipe for BBQ'd bread, which I can massively recommend. Just use a basic white bread recipe - flour, yeast and warm water. Only need to prove it once then bash out the air. Roll out pancake style, flop (immediately after rolling) onto BBQ, allow to go golden underneath (less than a minute) turn over, paste with garlic butter, a few more secs and you have incredibly delicious bbq bread. You could also use herb butter.

Add your meat of choice and/or de-skewered veg on top of the hot buttery bread.

Even made it camping, using wine bottle as a rolling pin. What a delicious but thrifty bbq feast.

topgranny

Darling OH has recently started making our bread again. He used to do it years ago when we had an Aga, which was wonderful.

We use a dried yeast called Fermipan. You get a 500g pack for about £3.50 and it last for ages. We also like to get our flour from a mill at Baslow, near Chatsworth, (we get the Fermipan there too) but it's quite a way away from us now so I'm going to search online for supplies.

The bread is amazing, but I do worry about the cost of the electricity for the oven. He always makes at least 3 loaves at a time and I am trying to make sure that I bake cake or something too while the oven is on.:T