Industrial bread, bread with all the nutritional value removed, a long list of ingredients, including emulsifiers. It is what we find in the supermarket.
Yesterday I had sourdough bread off a market stall.
What is sourdough bread? Ask most vendors and they don’t know.
It is bread using a wild yeast, with a long slow fermentation. Once the baker is happy, will cultivate the yeast for future loaves. Strictly speaking, a symbiotic relationship with a wild yeast and a lacto bacteria (which we find in Greek yogurt and kefir).
I chatted with the baker. He said sourdough bread in supermarkets uses dead cultures. I was baffled, what use if not active? He said, to give the flavour of sourdough bread.
I bought a sourdough loaf (or at least shared half with a lady, who had bought the last one) and two croissants.
This sourdough loaf was different to any I’d experienced to date. Very doughy, the crust not hard, and more flavour. Next time I see the baker, more questions.
That evening, sourdough bread with avocado.
Bread stall: Grain of Truth Bakery. Bread, croissants and farm cheeses from raw milk. Wednesday in the market square outside Lincoln Central Market.
Cheese on toast, yes. Cauliflower cheese, yes. Try cauliflower cheese on toast.
Is bread healthy? It depends. Most people will be surprised to find bread classed as ultra-processed
I buy bread from a long established family business. It will be sitting on the shelf. I ask for a wholemeal loaf and they slice it for me on an ancient machine. One day it was aleady sliced and wrapped in a plastic bag, attached was a kong list of ingredients. I asked of the bread not wrapped, to learn what sits on the shelves also has a long list of ingredients. The lady was primed, and gave a detailed defense. I now take a greater interest in the bread i buy, ask questions.
Gail’s if beleive the hype, an up market bakery. It is not. Poor service, dirty dishes piled high on dirty tables, undrinkable coffee.
And what of the fresh bread at Gail’s? Sat outside, talking to a baker, he said it was no different to a supermarket, shipped in and hotted up.
Beware of fake bread and other chicanery. White bread bleached to make it look whiter, brown bread died to make it look browner.
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