some "smells" just do it for me and the smell of freshly baked bread is right up there (along with freshly mown grass or freshly sawn timber). I work for a supermarket where the majority of bread is actually baked from scratch but we now rarely eat white bread preferring the (healthier and more filling) wholemeal or seeded . Did buy a bread maker and got quite good with it in the end but whilst its fun to do the more fancy loaves in it when the kids were here we never seemed to have the time to make enough bread out of it to go round and dont bother with it much now. Besides, swmbo always maintained that it wasnt that much harder or troublesome to bake your own in the oven. Guess she finds all that kneading theraputic
Must admit that her homemade hoagies are pretty good though (particularly good with her curried apple and parsnip soup).My particular company has "proper" butchers and fishmongers too and I think thats a good thing. Of course its not like they operate as they might have done when they were independants (eg it would be far too time-consuming to do all the volume of "butchery" and deal with whole carcasses )but it means that the majority of these skills remain.Still believe that there is always a market for good independant bakers/butchers though.
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Topic: Do you like real bread? (Read 1726 times)