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Baking

Appears in
Shaun Hill's Cookery Book

By Shaun Hill

Published 1990

  • About
Deyon people eat good bread, and most towns still have a decent family-run bakery. Although you will rarely see sour dough or soda bread, you can expect reliable granary and half a dozen shapes of good white bread.

Sadly these shops double up as pâtisseries, a craft for which they are usually unsuited. Most windows have the same dismal selection of iced buns and doughnuts. Bakeries with notions of grandeur will pipe cream into these and feel they have catered to the fancy end of the market. What a turning point it will be when the cream money is spent on, say, better jam for the doughnut and better oil to cook it in.

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