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Old 05-01-2016, 20:04
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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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Old 05-01-2016, 20:07
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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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Old 05-01-2016, 20:11
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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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Old 05-01-2016, 20:12
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Definitely!!!
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:13
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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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Old 05-01-2016, 20:13
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I'm loving it already
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:14
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I'm loving it already
Me too
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:17
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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.
But isn't food a major part of social history?
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:18
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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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Old 05-01-2016, 20:20
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But isn't food a major part of social history?
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!
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:21
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Put the word 'artisan' on a food menu = double the price charged for the food
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:21
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Is Alex going to be there all the time telling them what to do?
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:22
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Is Alex going to be there all the time telling them what to do?
I hope so
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:23
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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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Old 05-01-2016, 20:26
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Sfunny how far removed supermarket bread is from this
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:27
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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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Old 05-01-2016, 20:29
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Sfunny how far removed supermarket bread is from this
I remember growing up on Mother's Pride - that was awful bread - so doughy, thin and soggy. Nothing like the bread they've just made
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:29
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The French still use more traditional flours than English bakers which may explain the taste
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:32
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Bacon sarnies!
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:43
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But isn't food a major part of social history?
I was just about to comment that, you cant look at social history without looking at how and what people ate, the price of it and how it was produced.
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Old 05-01-2016, 20:44
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Spelt bread!
Peasant bread marketed to to the middle-classes.
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Old 05-01-2016, 22:27
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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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Old 06-01-2016, 09:02
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[quote=maltshovel;80973451]
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?
Did feel very Victorian Farm, but not missing Ruth, good to have new Faces...and this, I enjoyed.
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Old 06-01-2016, 10:17
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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 think it's very interesting to know how our ancestors lived. For centuries the basic food for most people was bread, and as someone who makers her own bread I'm interested in seeing how it was done in the past. I should imagine there was a lot of sweat and hair in it 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.

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...
Isn't a wheatsheaf supposed to have a little mouse on it too?
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Old 06-01-2016, 10:28
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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.
Not finding that with the lady presenter, perhaps she just took a time to settle in, has she done much television?
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