Watching now on BBC2.

History meets baking (again!). I love social history, not always keen on shoehorning food into the mix.

[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?

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!

Definitely!!!

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.

I'm loving it already

Me too

But isn't food a major part of social history?

What are 'couture' cakes? Couture is French for 'sewing'!

Bespoke cakes perhaps...but even that word is overused.

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!

Put the word 'artisan' on a food menu = double the price charged for the food

Is Alex going to be there all the time telling them what to do?

I hope so

This is like what you do when you make a friendship cake - keeping Herman alive and passing him on.

Sfunny how far removed supermarket bread is from this

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..

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

The French still use more traditional flours than English bakers which may explain the taste

Bacon sarnies!

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.

Spelt bread!
Peasant bread marketed to to the middle-classes.

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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Did feel very Victorian Farm, but not missing Ruth, good to have new Faces...and this, I enjoyed.

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.


Isn't a wheatsheaf supposed to have a little mouse on it too?

Not finding that with the lady presenter, perhaps she just took a time to settle in, has she done much television?