Bullet2012
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The toasting is done on the forgeSlice and toast in one operation
The toasting is done on the forgeSlice and toast in one operation
Maybe you should make the bread, that way you do not have to rely on SWIMBOS choice.Weird...
My Mum died in January, a welcome release tbh, Covid, blah, blah.
Reading this and I found myself welling up. Mum made her own bread since a bread strike in the 70's and never looked back. White, brown, all shapes and sizes. She swore by Canadian Manitoba bread flour that in later years we found in Costco. She would buy blocks of fresh yeast from the Asda bakery.
Had a sense of humour too, weaning the kids onto solids (both breast fed) and she'd make "boobie rolls", round rolls with a little tiny one on top.
Sadly SWMBO is far less domesticated hence the sliced 50/50 crap we have here!
Maybe you should make the bread, that way you do not have to rely on SWIMBOS choice.
Can you show a picture of the books front cover please.. I'm intrigued .. we had a similar named book for a wedding present back in Aug 1969 ..Rock cakes, shortbread and digestive like biscuits are about my limit all from the Dairy Book Of Home Cookery (again Mum's). All her best recipes were in her head I reckon. Tried making a fruit cake like hers a while back. Total, over sweet disaster. (7lb of fruit iirc). As I was eating it her voice came back to me saying something about "I halved the fruit...". Should have listened more rather than just stuffing my face!
You've just proven they don't.don't they realise Scots buy these?
Can you show a picture of the books front cover please.. I'm intrigued .. we had a similar named book for a wedding present back in Aug 1969 ..
My ex wife would never read it hence her getting deep into my heart , stomach & buggering off in 1984 .
New wife ( 1988 ) didn't arrive with a book but could cook reasonably well & had fantastic chassis with less miles on the clock & fabulous independent suspension . .
great! Can I suggest you make a note of your weight before it arrives . Just a thought. Have fun.Just to end this thread question, I stuck in a bid on the eBay used one I mentioned ^^, but it went for just shy of £30 + £10 postage.
Seeing as they seem to get to closer to half the price of the Amazon one on offer [which is the newer version], I've just ordered one from there. Now looking forward to 'experimenting'.
I was speaking to the baker and he says they've fallen foul of 'Natasha's Law'. Given he's getting on a bit (like the rest of us ), he's likely to pack in the baking altogether. What with that, and the soaring costs of firing the big electric oven(s), + having to prepare individual labels with detailed ingredients for every loaf and pack of rolls + poly-bag every one, it's more hassle than is worthwhile.
Shame really, but they call it progress.....
Ours was the original version from the coop milkman mum brought it as a bottom drawer gift to my ex wifeThis is Mum's 1977 print. She did have other earlier ones I think.
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First published in 1968, the author thanks the Milk Marketing Board for their help and cooperation. Think Mum bought from the Express Dairy milkman.
Then a couple of later 1996 editions:
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The dog eared one is mine and the clean copy the one my lad took to uni.
after my ex wife gave me baked beans on toast every day for the first four months of our marriage when we lived in W Germany
Rock cakes, shortbread and digestive like biscuits are about my limit all from the Dairy Book Of Home Cookery (again Mum's). All her best recipes were in her head I reckon. Tried making a fruit cake like hers a while back. Total, over sweet disaster. (7lb of fruit iirc). As I was eating it her voice came back to me saying something about "I halved the fruit...". Should have listened more rather than just stuffing my face!
I'm getting naughty thoughts about your milkman. Nudge,,,, Nudge say no more say no more.I learnt everything i know about cooking from that book!
Ours came from the milkman too.
This isn't him is it??I learnt everything i know about cooking from that book!
Ours came from the milkman too.
OR BOTH of those!Or one of these?
I learnt everything i know about cooking from that book!
No not in the early days ..it was six months or later that they started to wreck my guts .Bet you always had the lift to yourself