Our daily bread

Since the start of the pandemic, flour has been hard to come by. It flew off the shelves in my local supermarket and soon we were having to find alternative ways of providing for our daily meals. I have always done a lot of cooking, but now I was faced with make it yourself or do without it scenarios. I also felt that I should be doing as much as I could myself because I have the time. Time, however, became ever shorter because more cleaning is also involved. After a week or so of the shutdown, which started in March here in England, the house had never been cleaner, but I was getting pretty fed up with cleaning doorknobs every day!

In the kitchen, I decided to try my hand at making some bread. This is something I used to do when my boys were growing up, but had left behind because supermarket loaves were so easy and labour saving. With the shortage of flour I had to find an alternative means of supply. I looked on the internet and found a mill about fifteen miles away, who provide all sorts of flour through a company called Bakery Bits Ltd. I am putting the link here so you can hop over and see the wealth of different kinds of flour and other necessities available from them, here in the U.K. https://www.bakerybits.co.uk/

These are the loaves of bread we now enjoy and I have the waistline to prove it, lol!

..and this is the flour I like the best.  It is Italian and makes wonderful pizza dough.

 

so why not have a go yourself?  I don't have a breadmaker, but I do have a hand whisk with dough attachments. They take away a lot of the hardest work...