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Labour of love: producing the perfect loaf

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

Slow Rise: A Bread-making Adventure Robert Penn

Particular Books, pp.227, 17.99

Wheat flour, and the bread made from it, has been a recurring cause of concern for the British for centuries, with parliament passing laws to control the size of loaves and quantity of additives. The 1758 Act required bread to contain ‘genuine meal or flour, common salt, pure water, eggs, and yeast or barm, or such leaven as magistrates shall occasionally allow of’.

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