I recently wrote a blog on Roller Milling bemoaning its super efficiency and the fact that all the natural goodness of the grain is lost in the process to extract the purest, whitest flour that the majority of consumers have been conditioned to prefer and demand. Well here’s the antidote, and the funny thing is, it’s always been here. It’s an efficient, simple and obvious way of releasing all the useful parts of the grain, resulting ...
Here’s a picture of Smiths Flour Mills, Worksop. There would be more images except that we were not allowed to take any of the mill operating. Ever since our ancestors discovered that the powdery substance held captive in grains of grass, when added with water and eaten could provide them with sustenance, the search for a means to extract and process this ‘flour mixture’ has been continuous. Traditionally the flour was removed from the grain by ...
“And I had but one penny in the world, thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread”. – William Shakespeare, “Love’s Labor’s Lost” If you visited the Welbeck Christmas Arts and Food Market you may have stopped by the ‘Welbeck Delights – Baked Fancy’s and Treats’ stall. If not, why not? You missed out, you really did. Anyhow, whether you stopped by or not you probably heard that the gingerbread biscuits (See Chris-Moose…geddit.. below) were to die for, ...
Generally I’m not a huge fan of ‘Christmas Food and Craft Markets’, have been to Winchester’s world famous one where you shuffle along with a multitude of other shleps as if on a conveyor belt, looking at crap stuff that obviously couldn’t be flogged at more authentic German Christmas markets over the water, and Leeds which was pretty much the same thing, but in the rain. So let’s just say I wasn’t overjoyed a few weeks ...
Today marks the 83rd anniversary of Armistice Day, the end of hostilities in the First World War. Now it’s traditionally the day the nation remembers those of it’s citizens, soldiers, sailors and airmen still serving and those who have fallen in wars, justified or otherwise. As our Armed Forces shrinks so do the links that used to tie it strongly to the communities we live in and with that maybe a slice of the empathy that ...
This is a farmer’s field. Not all fields are the same. I’m sure you drive/walk/cycle past them every day and perhaps, like me, not pay them a second thought, something to store cows/sheep/crops in surely, anyhow why should you they’re just fields after all. All fields have a living history and their landscapes can be read. This particular field sits within Ryedale in the North Yorkshire Moors and is split crossways by an ancient track-way and the ...
I know you’ve thought about it, you don’t think I know, but I know. I think I may have even seen you, staring out of the window with that slightly lost look of a person dreaming they were somewhere else doing something else, maybe even something they actually loved doing. I know all this because I was you; in an overly long sometimes extremely hazardous all consuming career I was once passionate about but evermore considering each ...
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