Difficult times spark home baking

saltedm8

An explosion in home breadmaking has been reported as the credit crunch bites and food prices continue to rise.

Bread-flour supplier Allinson reports sales are up by 50% in the last month alone as more families adopt a back-to-basics lifestyle.

Asda has introduced a significantly bigger range of home-baking products and appliances to gear up for the growing demand from a new generation of home bakers.

Core baking staples are also in high demand. Yeast sales are up 67%, flour 14% and dried fruit 9%. Families looking for a quick-fix baked treat have also helped push up sales of cake mixes by 15%.

Latest figures show that a home-made loaf of bread can cost as little as a third of the price of a shop-bought alternative - and the gap is set to grow with the average price of a loaf of bread up by 20% to over £1 in the past year whereas a bag of flour has only risen by 5%.

ASDA nutritionist Vanessa Hattersley said: "The revival is down to healthy eating and saving money as families realise that home baking is a great way to make ends meet."

the news could not be better lol

CookieMonster

Really good news that Nothing better than the smell of bread cooking.

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saltedm8

I can only imagine what it was like 50 years ago, where loads of houses that you walked past smelt like a bakers... I can only hope that it gives a great boost to food attitudes.

CookieMonster

My children love it when you put a damp cloth over the dough,let it prove then 'Hey Presto' it's doubled in size,actually i love that bit too

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saltedm8

I usually just put it into the airing cupboard lol... its warm in there

johntaylor

My friends and family have started cooking bread recently, although I'm not sure it's because of the credit crunch. This is a really good recipe for sweet bread with coconuts and cherries... perfect for christmas or thanksgiving:

recipe-super-search.net/recipes/64862/3-C-Bread

johntaylor

... My wife's not too keen on coconuts so I often leave those out.

johntaylor

Here is the URL:

Recipe Search: 3 C Bread

Susanne

I've been baking bread every now and then for some years, but regularly since I discovered sourdough baking this spring. I only bought bread a few times since then - because I killed my starter a couple of times in the summer when it was thunderstorm/mold weather.
Here in Germany we love dark and dense breads - with whole meal and often with whole grains too - and they are better made with sourdough. And with the sourdough all I have to buy is flour (and water from the tab).

shammrok

Bread is on my to do list, funnily enough I cannot make a decent scone, no matter what recipe I use or any of the stoves I have owned.

I have just mastered savoury muffins, Lol.

OH would like a bread maker, mine you he wants me to geta pasta maker also ( Will get one and try my hand at that soon).

I am the dishwasher so the thought of having something else to clean really does not appeal that much as I spend so much time in the kitchen anyway.

We do like sourdough bread, so that sounds like a project at some stage.

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