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I used Good Store whole wheat bread flour for 'heritage' bread which never seems to rise very high anyway. Having yeast on hand is a happy result of getting an Indian cookbook for christmas and needing yeast for Naan.
George Mewes has fresh French yeast (ooh la la), and presumably it's available on their online orders?
French yeast (ooh la la)
We had to look up the French for 'sourdough' as neither knew it. 'Levain' as it turns out. Pain au levain. Which we knew of as a concept but didn't actually know what it meant beyond rustic bread.
Mungoswells webshop active just now, if anyone was looking.
The Edinburgh Farm Shop at Mortonhall has loads of fancy flour, if anyone fancies a bike ride up there.
I didn't buy flour but I did get a delicious Granary loaf.
I also, despite being more or less bilingual, did not know that 'pain de levain' was sourdough. i blame my hometown for not going hipster before i left, as most of my french food words come from food labels.
The Polish shop on Leith Walk had fresh yeast for 55p, which I bought on a whim and now feel guilty about.
Does pain de levain not cost a tenner a slice?
@gembo
The price of a baguette or a pain is fixed by law in order to suppress revolution. Pain au levain is not covered.
https://www.poilane.com/categorie-produit/pains/
@the canuck
There is of course no telling what the crazy Quebecois call sourdough. Could be sahouerredeau?
Meanwhile in the Yukon ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/canada-yukon-coronavirus-caribou
I never knew that about sourdough and the Yukon. I can imagine keeping your starter happy through a long arctic winter would be quite a feat
I help you.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/ione-christensen-canada-yukon-sourdough-starter-yeast
@Frenchy: What types of flour is the Gilmerton Road Morrisons doing? We're critically low on self-raising, and while we know that you can simply add baking powder to plain, we don't exactly have abundant supplies of those either (though plain is the one type that does seem to pop up in other supermarkets from time to time.)
I did pass by the Gilmerton Road Morrisons the other day, on my way somewhere else. Unfortunately there was a rather daunting-looking queue outside (at 5:30pm, go figure) which meant that I couldn't really just to 'pop in' on the off chance.
Our local Morrisons seems to have re-organised its displays so that there are no longer any sad-looking empty flour shelves, in fact nothing to indicate that they have ever sold anything like flour at all, ever, and never will. Weird.
Also annoying is the non-availability of caster sugar. Again, we know that you can put granulated through the blender but it is a bit of a faff, especially when the blender mechanism gets gummed up with sugar :(
On Friday there were decanted bags of plain and self-raising, and a few normal bags of self-raising flour (rapidly disappearing even in the time I was in the aisle). The week before there was just plain, though.
Also annoying is the non-availability of caster sugar.
@ejstubbs I definitely saw caster sugar in Slateford Rd Lidl over the weekend.
I tend to use granulated sugar for baking as I don't like the idea of paying twice as much for finer sugar. I know that there are benefits of caster sugar and that it's just the correct size incorporate air into the batter (granulated too large and won't dissolve, icing sugar too small and will dissolve before incorporating the air).
@Bill - Interesting! I tend to just use granulated sugar or mix it up and throw in soft brown sugar for things like biscuits (I'm a sucker for a nice dark muscovado). I've noticed when visiting the US that their table sugar is finer than granulated and (at least according to my baking father in law baffled over UK cook books) there's no such thing as caster sugar.
I love a dark muscovado, also anything treacly, molasses, kirriemuir ginger bread.
Jam sugar is totally pointless
My mum used to (may still do) buy granulated sugar and then blast it in a food processor to produce something approximating caster sugar.
Flapjacks made with treacle instead of golden syrup are good, especially with a bit of ginger thrown in.
Yes or the same effect can be achieved if you slightly burn the golden syrup
Made a coffee and walnut cake with Muscavado sugar just now. Complex and nuanced with the marscapone cream filling.
that's just showing off
post a pic of your aga
gwan iwrats show us yer aga
I shall polish a fresh silver plate for the Daguerreotype apparatus.
so its just a panasonic breadmaker second hand aff amazon then ?
that's the trouble with edinburgh, innit
aw fur coat and nae knickers
Trangia, but running on butyl lithium. Lights itself.
well iwrats-san you've certainly spurred me on.. turns out there's a surprisingly comprehensive trangia baking subculture out there..
lets do it for the fans
@PS: See my post five above yours, final para.
ffs stubbs, you wan caster sugar, gotta learn trade
wha you wan
@bax did you ever frequent Chinese Home Cooking in Marchmont in the 1980s?
It was in Newington in the late 1990s, unless there were two. We went to the one on East Preston St relatively often (for students) as one flatmate befriended the staff and somehow always got free sambuca.
@ejstubbs - loads of flour at Moredun Morrison's this morning. Plain, SR, bread, wholemeal, everything.
@wingpig, same place. It moved. I think my heroine who Bax is quoting but not quite capturing her extreme directness (we felt cheated if she did not take our order) may have retired and her kids took over. Used to be BYOB. We lived above and during the rugger the sounds of Swing Low Sweet Chariot would drift up. THe rats were not happy when it moved.
@bax: ffs stubbs, you wan caster sugar, gotta learn trade
Sadly, I have nothing to trade beyond a few bushels of garden waste :(
(I do have a spare set of car wheels + nearly-new tyres which I was planning to put on Gumtree...until lockdown came along.)
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