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Post by JohnY on Apr 24, 2024 21:53:38 GMT
I remember Cook's bakery in Stainbeck Road, Leeds. It is very close to where we lived. We never bought 2 large loaves. We bought one small loaf at a time several times a week. In those days bread was not full of preservatives. Also from there came meat pies, sausage rolls and curd tarts. Later they started selling boiled ham of their own simmering and it was carved off the bone to order. We rarely got cakes because my mother baked cake. I have just googled it and the bakery is still there but now called Russell's Patisserie. The post office next door is also still there.
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Post by lesleysm2 on Apr 24, 2024 22:49:18 GMT
To quote John Y
"We never bought 2 large loaves. We bought one small loaf at a time several times a week"
We also brought bread, rolls etc through the week but my mum had a big thing about making a big tea on Sunday usually with relatives and/or neighbours coming round so the two loaves were to cover two days
She was also a tad obsessed with the idea of running out of bread. When I moved in with Dave I used to go to my parents on Xmas Eve afternoon and my dad would drive me home after Xmas dinner and after he died I'd visit her on Xmas Eve and go home later on and every time she'd force 3-4 loaves of bread on me "You don't want to run out over Xmas everything will be closed"
I told her every year where I live pretty much everywhere is open as usual (some might close a bit early on Xmas Day but that's it) on account of the staff being mostly Muslim or Sikh so it's a normal day for them (A few years ago my Xmas dinner post pub was a lamb tikka biryani from the chicken place next door) but every year she was convinced it would be a disaster and we'd die of starvation if we didn't have enough bread to last us from Xmas Eve until the day after Boxing Day
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Post by mick on Apr 25, 2024 7:21:58 GMT
I make a lot of bread with a bread maker. Some time ago my machine died and I needed a replacement. I did lots of research, including consulting Which Magazine. Their best buy was much more than I wanted to pay. I came to the conclusion that it was expensive because it had all sorts of electronic wizardry that I didn't need or want.
I bought a pretty cheap one and haven't regretted it.
Mick
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Post by Kath on Apr 25, 2024 7:55:51 GMT
"Unfortunately we had a bakers over the road from us and he retired it’s now a pizza shop 😞 so I miss my fresh bread" To quote Don who has just got my mouth watering at a memory! When I was a kid, there was a bakery near us and every Saturday morning mum would want one of us to go there and bring back two large poppy seed bloomers (as an aside- does anyone sell poppy seed bloomers anymore? Not seen them in years). We used to fight amongst ourselves for the job. Then the winner would run down there ("Speights" it was called) and queue up for the bread, which would still be warm from the oven or if you timed it right baking hot To the victor the spoils because when you got back mum would cut the first slice (we called it the topper and I still like getting the topper off a loaf at either end, yes, mum called the last slice a topper as well) slather it with butter, which as it was still warm would just melt into it and strawberry jam. It was heavenly! My first Saturday job as a teen was in a shop called Speights. Only it was a pharmacy. |
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Post by John Farrell on Apr 25, 2024 9:23:28 GMT
There is a business here called Speights - a brewery.
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Post by Kath on Apr 25, 2024 10:01:29 GMT
There is a business here called Speights - a brewery. They get everywhere! |
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Post by spinno on Apr 25, 2024 10:14:50 GMT
However did he find time to write "Til death us do part"?
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Post by aitch on Apr 25, 2024 10:22:12 GMT
So I thought I would have a second attempt at the Easy Chocolate Biscuits. Came out better this time - creamed the butter/sugar more thoroughly? Dunno. Anyway, didn't spread like mad and taste well chocolatey. 
Herewith my attempt at an arty food shot. Should give Kath a laugh if nothing else...
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Post by zou on Apr 25, 2024 12:44:27 GMT
There is a business here called Speights - a brewery. They get everywhere! There was a spate of them? |
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Post by don on Apr 25, 2024 13:22:12 GMT
"Unfortunately we had a bakers over the road from us and he retired it’s now a pizza shop 😞 so I miss my fresh bread" To quote Don who has just got my mouth watering at a memory! When I was a kid, there was a bakery near us and every Saturday morning mum would want one of us to go there and bring back two large poppy seed bloomers (as an aside- does anyone sell poppy seed bloomers anymore? Not seen them in years). We used to fight amongst ourselves for the job. Then the winner would run down there ("Speights" it was called) and queue up for the bread, which would still be warm from the oven or if you timed it right baking hot To the victor the spoils because when you got back mum would cut the first slice (we called it the topper and I still like getting the topper off a loaf at either end, yes, mum called the last slice a topper as well) slather it with butter, which as it was still warm would just melt into it and strawberry jam. It was heavenly! Lesley I love that type of happy memory. My bakery memory is stale jam doughnuts on a Saturday morning while doing my butcher’s delivery round on my trades bike. It is a long story but I still remember them fifty five years later. |
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Post by zou on Apr 25, 2024 17:03:09 GMT
"Unfortunately we had a bakers over the road from us and he retired it’s now a pizza shop 😞 so I miss my fresh bread" To quote Don who has just got my mouth watering at a memory! When I was a kid, there was a bakery near us and every Saturday morning mum would want one of us to go there and bring back two large poppy seed bloomers (as an aside- does anyone sell poppy seed bloomers anymore? Not seen them in years). We used to fight amongst ourselves for the job. Then the winner would run down there ("Speights" it was called) and queue up for the bread, which would still be warm from the oven or if you timed it right baking hot To the victor the spoils because when you got back mum would cut the first slice (we called it the topper and I still like getting the topper off a loaf at either end, yes, mum called the last slice a topper as well) slather it with butter, which as it was still warm would just melt into it and strawberry jam. It was heavenly! Lesley I love that type of happy memory. My bakery memory is stale jam doughnuts on a Saturday morning while doing my butcher’s delivery round on my trades bike. It is a long story but I still remember them fifty five years later. Still gnawing on one? |
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Post by Kath on Apr 25, 2024 19:24:26 GMT
So I thought I would have a second attempt at the Easy Chocolate Biscuits. Came out better this time - creamed the butter/sugar more thoroughly? Dunno. Anyway, didn't spread like mad and taste well chocolatey.
Herewith my attempt at an arty food shot. Should give Kath a laugh if nothing else...
I'm loving the rather random addition of the grapes...is that so you get a vitamin in? Also - they look scrummy! (the choccy biscuits that is. The grapes also look good but not as good as the chocolate.) |
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Post by aitch on Apr 27, 2024 9:03:15 GMT
So I thought I would have a second attempt at the Easy Chocolate Biscuits. Came out better this time - creamed the butter/sugar more thoroughly? Dunno. Anyway, didn't spread like mad and taste well chocolatey. Herewith my attempt at an arty food shot. Should give Kath a laugh if nothing else...
I'm loving the rather random addition of the grapes...is that so you get a vitamin in? Erm, just accurred to me. Possibly influenced by one of the few mags I buy these days ( Food & Travel). Plus it was an 'excuse' to buy some more, much needed, fruit. Oh, they were. Even my picky friends down the pub were complimentary. Less so about the Goosenargh Cakes, which I wasn't too happy about - not sure the flavour of carraway is to my taste. |
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Post by Kath on Apr 27, 2024 10:07:33 GMT
Oh, they were. Even my picky friends down the pub were complimentary. Less so about the Goosenargh Cakes, which I wasn't too happy about - not sure the flavour of carraway is to my taste. I like carraway with cabbage, but I've never been convinced about it in sweet things. |
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Post by kate on Apr 27, 2024 11:34:03 GMT
I'm loving the rather random addition of the grapes...is that so you get a vitamin in? Erm, just accurred to me. Possibly influenced by one of the few mags I buy these days ( Food & Travel). Plus it was an 'excuse' to buy some more, much needed, fruit. Oh, they were. Even my picky friends down the pub were complimentary. Less so about the Goosenargh Cakes, which I wasn't too happy about - not sure the flavour of carraway is to my taste. I thought it was caraway seeds. Hated them. They seemed to be the only post-WW2 addition to cakes for flavour. Wasn't to my taste even as a kid. |
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