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Victorian Bakers
Watching now on BBC2.
History meets baking (again!). I love social history, not always keen on shoehorning food into the mix. |
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[quote=harrypalmer;80973417]Watching now on BBC2.
History meets baking (again!). I love social history, not always keen on shoehorning food into the mix.[/QUOT Evening ![]() I love social history too and 5 minutes in I'm hooked!! I like Dr Alex Langlands from Victorian Farm but where's Ruth? |
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Got a feeling a few happy smiles are going to wiped off faces when they realise just how hard they are going to have to work!
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Definitely!!!
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Yes. I miss the trio of Ruth, Peter and Alex.
The woman presenter here is delivering her lines like she's on stage at the Globe Theatre. |
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I'm loving it already
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Watching now on BBC2.
History meets baking (again!). I love social history, not always keen on shoehorning food into the mix. |
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What are 'couture' cakes? Couture is French for 'sewing'!
Bespoke cakes perhaps...but even that word is overused. |
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But isn't food a major part of social history?
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Put the word 'artisan' on a food menu = double the price charged for the food
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Is Alex going to be there all the time telling them what to do?
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Is Alex going to be there all the time telling them what to do?
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This is like what you do when you make a friendship cake - keeping Herman alive and passing him on.
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Sfunny how far removed supermarket bread is from this
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Talking of bread, has anyone noticed how prewrapped processed bread goes mouldy really quickly, compared to baked in store bread? Or is it just me..
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Sfunny how far removed supermarket bread is from this
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The French still use more traditional flours than English bakers which may explain the taste
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Bacon sarnies!
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Spelt bread!
Peasant bread marketed to to the middle-classes. |
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Thoroughly enjoyed Victorian Bakers. Reminded me of a village I grew up and bread was proper bread, not like the stodge today. Also, reminded me of when bakers hand-made a wheatsheaf. for Harvest Sunday...
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[quote=maltshovel;80973451] Quote:
Watching now on BBC2.
History meets baking (again!). I love social history, not always keen on shoehorning food into the mix.[/QUOT Evening ![]() I love social history too and 5 minutes in I'm hooked!! I like Dr Alex Langlands from Victorian Farm but where's Ruth? |
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It is, but I'm just a bit sick of everything being about baking and cooking. After modern day baking has been exhausted (Bake Off), what better than to do something about historical bakery. You'd think the British public think about nothing else than bloody cooking!
I'm so lucky I have a Kenwood to do the mixing for me - I don't like getting my hands full of claggy dough.Quote:
Thoroughly enjoyed Victorian Bakers. Reminded me of a village I grew up and bread was proper bread, not like the stodge today. Also, reminded me of when bakers hand-made a wheatsheaf. for Harvest Sunday...
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Yes. I miss the trio of Ruth, Peter and Alex.
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I'm so lucky I have a Kenwood to do the mixing for me - I don't like getting my hands full of claggy dough.