Three old favourites for the bread making this time. I’ve put the recipes at the end of this blog entry.
First up is the Toastie, based on an Elizabeth David recipe, and a long time favourite from when our children were small. Adding a little potato flour alters the crumb size to give a bread that’s ideal for toasting, and soaks up the butter. Not perhaps a health food, but great for breakfast or high tea.
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Tagged bread, buckwheat bread, home made bread, pain de campagne, potato flour
Our friend at the allotments for whom we hatched some duck eggs has now extended his range of poultry with a pair of quail. Yesterday we put 21 quail eggs into the incubator for him.
They take 17 days, so they’re due to hatch on Saturday 5th August.
We both went on a woodturning course. It all started with spoon carving, of which more another time. But I needed some suitable wood for carving, and found a company called Peter Child which sells nice wood for turning and carving. It’s handily situated not far from where Jean’s mum lives, so on a visit to see her we made a detour. What a wonderful shop! And while we were exploring the woodstore, we realised that they run two-day courses in woodturning. So we booked ourselves in.
Here’s Jean doing a practice piece.
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The broody hen’s long wait wasn’t in vain. Last weekend she hatched just one chick. She’d been sitting on four eggs, but the other three didn’t come to anything.
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