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Much better, ta. Back to avoiding work by procrastinating rather than being in a codeine-induced coma. ;)

Rose - milk loaf? I can see myself getting all tied in knots over these transatlantic food weirdnesses again ...

... Yup.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/nov/24/foodanddrink.baking10

Self-raising flour, weighed instead of measured the normal way, isn't bad enough. Now we have "strong white bread flour" ...

I'm going to stick to my plastic-packaged 12-grain, I think, for regular grilled cheese or egg salad sandwiches, with the super-high-fibre-low-carb pita for my super jerk chicken caesar sandwiches.

Egg salad. You call that egg mayonnaise, I believe, where the yanks tend to call it chopped egg ...

Comedians have various little tales about the differences between Canucks and Yanks. One is: Yanks order a tuna fish sandwich; Canadians order a tuna sandwich and just assume it will be fish. ;)

pmsl................

~~~~~~~~~~~~to Janey

hope ya feelin better??

milk loaf is nice and thin, the round one..I like cucumber sliced very thin with lots of vinegar...childhood food :))

Straying from bread, but I thought you might like this, Whirley:


http://www.samueljohnson.com/cucumber.html

351. Cucumbers; Eating
"It has been a common saying of physicians in England, that a cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides


My mum, from whom I get my love of vinegar (but who is not a pepper freak like her mother and my other grandmother, and me) does just that: slices cucumber and puts vinegar and pepper on it and leaves it in a bowl in the kitchen to snack on.

I'm fond of cucumber myself, but it's one of the few foods I would never put pepper on ...



Of course, Johnson also said:

http://www.samueljohnson.com/dogwalk.html

53. Dog walking on his hind legs; Expectations; Pioneers; Women preaching
I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach.
Johnson: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
Boswell: Life

Warburtons, to MY mind DO do a thinnish sliced loaf, but I prefer the thicker ones , specially for toasting,

I only buy sliced bread (and freeze it)these days as when I used to buy tesco's tin loaves they soon went off......

Bob

no aunty joy, coz then im eating more bread haha, i like me small loafs i think there "cute" lol xx

Rose the thin stuff is about I'm sure.................:) I dont like cucumber, gives me indigestion............lol

Stray, I love bread, but cos its a carbohydrate, it really makes me tired...so I try not to eat too much.....

Alko, that could be a Ciabatta?? I make that in me Bread Maker, but tend to make rolls....

And the one with no crust on cos i dont want curly hair lol :))))))))))

thats the one whirls .its scrummy.stray buy a big loaf and split in half,freeze the other half .xx

I remember when the current medium sliced loaf was the thin of old and the new thick sliced was the medium of old!! I think that makes sense..lol

GA

i like that flat stuff that got tomatoes on it and cheese, woteva it called

yummyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

i use the mini loaves, dad laughs and says ya can get a standard size one for the same price, but i dont use bread often, plus its cuts down on how much bread u eat lololol, xxx

pmsl whirls xx :)))))

I don't think it's what it used to be :( not the sliced stuff anyway, you can't get a thin sliced loaf for love nor money , and I did used to like it especially for cucumber sandwiches so you tasted the filling as much as the bread.

xx

nudge to give the bread some rising.

Tesco's do a lovely loaf Joy, a brown one with loads of seeds...think its in the Finest range....loverly.....Yeh the Cornish butter is delish, same as the ice cream...

~~~~~to Grumps....

Oh and to say, has bread gone up? or is it cos I'd forgotten how much the shop stuff is??

hey i got some lovely bread from tescos ....seeds loads of um .with cornish butter .yummy.xx

yep

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