Jan 09 2008
Hard-earned crust
It is not, of course, just me that has been hard at it of late. Indeedy, Dougal too has been expanding his foodie horizons, by baking bread. Santa had a wee word with my folks before Christmas and they furnished him with some tins, a rather fetching apron, and a big jar of my dad’s smashing Ruby Chutney as a sort of incentive towards the finish line (it really does deserve real bread).So far he’s been using recipe’s from Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course (published 1982) and the results have been both entirely edible (my dad assures me that my mum baked a lot of bricks when she started out) and also pleasingly tasty. I think I preferred the brown so far, despite at the time thinking it still needed some work. I’ve been taking both to work of late, to perk up my lunchtime half carton of soup.
