What sort of bread do you eat?

[Sysman]

Bit risky that? Who'd order a pie that may take 2 weeks to arrive? Or is he going to move to a European country and make them there?
He may find that there are already Brits based in European countries who make/sell pies.

He's already here, and has done a well received test run of his pies in our local English/Irish theme pub.

And Christmas is almost upon us. He recently came across his granny's recipe for mince pies and I had a taste of the mixture today. YUM!

Pork Pie, Chicken & Ham Pie, Beef Pasty, Apple Pie, Scotch Egg | Madrid | Spain

Thanks for the link.

[Sysman]

You absolutely have to slash it.

Here's a trick. Oven to as hot as it goes, put a tray in the bottom and boil a kettle.

Using a very, very, very, feckin, very sharp knife (otherwise it catches the dough and deflates it - I use a very sharp long kitchen knife), slash it (if a long tin loaf - slash lenghtways, if a round loaf, slash in cross shape) down to about half way, put it in the oven, shut the door, then pick up the kettle, and open the oven, and pour in the kettle into the baking tray and shut the door quickly; really crisps up the top of the bread.

The oven I had 10 years ago had some kind of water injection system to do the same. I was putting too many hours at work to do the full cooking bit, but it definitely worked.

[suityou01]

When I had my first job, as a wee slip of a lad, the office manager (a battle axe in her 50s) announced to the office that she had been diagnosed with a yeast infection.

Being 19 I hadn't a fecking clue what she meant. So I asked her right back what she meant.

Quick as a flash, one of the sales guys chimed in with "it means she's going to turn into a giant bap" before she had a chance to open her gob.

Proper liked that bloke.

[ctdctd]

When I had my first job, as a wee slip of a lad, blah blah

Yeah right

[suityou01]

Yeah right

Awright, "young tubber" then

[Sysman]

I was a bit shocked by the price of bread when I came to Switzerland, but on reflection it wasn't much more expensive than bread from a traditional privately owned bakery in the UK. UK supermarkets have for a long time sold bread and milk cheaply to get housewives into the shop.

I have half a dozen varieties to go at but my preference is what is known as Hausbrot (house bread). Loaves here are sold by weight. The occasional foray into Germany gives a bit more choice.

Correction:

I was in the local supermarket which has bread ovens on the premises earlier today and they now have a noticeboard displaying what types of bread are baked at what time of day.

I counted fifteen types of bread.