General Chat

I'm the same as Margaret! If I do have more out, I keep it in the fridge!

What I try to do, Margaret........but Er indoors insists on getting a whole one out.............

I put half of the loaf in the freezer.....Lovely & fresh.... each half lasts us 2 /3 days.

The problem is,,not with the bin its the bread being enclosed in the polythene bag as it sweats and results in a mould growth also its not properly cooled down when its packed ,,,,,,,,tip from an Asda baker,,,prick the bag in a few places before putting it in a bread bin.

my sister's father in law worked for a bakery and he maintained that the best place to keep bread is in the airing cupboard

I generally buy Warbertons toastie... 2 or three loaves at a time....freeze it on purchase but try not to have more than a half loaf in the bread bin at a time it dries out too quickly for me otherwise...when thats gone fetch the other half out of freezer to thaw....in the bread bin...

We usually get fresh supermarket bread but it seems to start going mouldy quickly regardless of where it came from.
Usually kept in a cupboard in the utility room.
A friend who visits every month or so brings us a loaf from his local bakers and that seems to keep better.

It will be less heartbreaking than doing it with vodka.

I wash my bread bin out with neat vinger
Its cheap easy and works

I buy Hovis Nimble and keep it in a wooden bread bin. It usually lasts the best part of a week - if it hasn't been eaten first!

I wonder if it is from a different bakery.

We use Aldi bread Sharron and have had no problems with it. Mine is kept in a bin in a dark cool cupboard.

I would have to make room for that.

Have always kept bread in a bin but did get a new one some time ago. It is a big tin with a lid because the one I had with the rollover top got very rusty and I got fed up with finding screwdrivers in it.

I always keep my bread in the fridge.

Delicious varieties of home made bread is just a distant memory now.

The warm smell of freshly baked buns filled our house and my grandmother was busy slicing off the lightly crisped tops, cutting them in two. She spread her rich lemon curd onto the cut buns and then taking the halved pieces, she placed them, back-to-back on top; little wings for her special butterfly buns.

She also baked an apple tart, shaping leaves and rosebuds out of the little bits of leftover pastry and placing them carefully on top of the tart. When it was cooked she sifted icing sugar over it, like a little dusting of snow falling lightly on to her perfect pastry petals.

I loved to watch granny bake, the sieving, sifting, folding, rubbing, rolling all done with authority in her hands, an expertise born of long experience. This was her craft and she was the mistress of it. She would occasionally let me help although I had to stand on a chair to see over the top of the wooden table. And I was the first one to be given a morsel of the finished product. A taste of Heaven for a five-year old!

Placing the sieve in my small hands, I would clumsily tap the sides finding it difficult to catch the rhythm and then she would gently cup my hands in hers steadying the beat. ‘It’s all in the wrist,’ she would explain as she showed me how to beat an egg or whip cream. She could make a feast of a boiled egg, presenting it with a painted-on face and served with her freshly made soda bread.

There was always a selection of her home-made jams, gooseberry, blackcurrant, marmalade and apple jelly. I remember her making apple jelly – she would place one chair upside down on another and then tie a thin square of ‘muslim cloth’ on the four upturned legs and let the fluid from the pulp of stewed apples seep through into the container beneath. She kept a little cottage industry going all by herself and she shared her produce proudly and with love. These were her gifts to us.

Three places were set, good-rimmed white china cups nestled on saucers alongside matching side plates, in between lay the bone-handled knives with their broad rounded blades and companion forks. Rolled curls of butter were stacked like a pyramid on a small silver dish. A little china jug of milk, a bowl of sugar and cute jam-filled containers with little lids and tiny spoons waited to be spun round on the lazy suzy.

From RTE radio in the front room, the Angelus bell tolled out its call to prayer at midday and we recited the Angelus with the rest of the family if they were there in the house. The old grandfather clock in the hallway tick-tocked out the long minutes, as it had done and still is doing so more than fifty years later. The ‘Sacred Heart’ looked out from His picture frame with the little red light out front, watching over us with His kind eyes and outstretched hands. Those all-seeing eyes seemed to follow us everywhere.

This is just a glimpse of a lost 1950s Irish paradise as I remember it. Wallow in the nostalgia. Granny took her leave of this mortal coil in 1963 while I was still a youngster. I am confident that God has found a quiet corner in Paradise for her gentle soul. Amen!

PMT and the breadknife!

I could get off my bum and get the breadmaker fired up but I am not there yet mentally.

Yeast is a mould anyway isn't it?

The only other thing I had considered was to wipe the bread bin out with vodka but that would have broken my heart! Will tell him to get the bread in Lidl instead.

I think that maybe the problem Sharron. I've found a lot of packaged bread goes of quickly.
I only buy fresh bread now and get it sliced as my OH won't let me slice bread like my mother and grandmother did. He says it's too dangerous :-D :-D :-D

Indeed it could well be.

Mould growth in bread can be reduced by paying attention to hygiene within the bakery to reduce the opportunities for spores to gain access to the product.

I remember reading an article a few years back which claimed some bakeries turned a blind eye to this in an attempt to boost sales as the sooner it goes mouldy the bigger the chance it is thrown away and you go back to buy more.

We mostly buy Warburtons and theirs is often good up to a 4/5 days after its best by date.

Can't speak for Aldi as we don't shop there.

It is.

Is it packaged bread?