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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2020
    Managed to get a couple of bags of Canadian Extra strong flour. I get a weird chemical taste/smell off the bread. My husband doesn't notice it. I must be one of those super tasters😕
    Will use it as there's nothing else.
     Just enough wholemeal left for a half and half soda bread😞
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I think all this virus stuff is affecting my brain but is it just me or is this an odd choice of cover photos right now? :#

    and the usual media CGI of the virus...

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    🤣 🦠 🌸 ain’t nature amazing 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    Apparently the problem about flour is not that there's a shortage of flour but that they can't package it quickly enough.  They supposedly have plenty of large bags/sacks which they normally supply to the baking trade but which they can't sell in the supermarket. I would be quite happy to buy a sack of bread flour, we haven't run out yet but only have wholegrain, Rye and spelt  left. Still, we've only been to the supermarket once in the last month so maybe the situation will have changed by the next time we go. Fingers crossed. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @Obelixx. No I haven’t been out for 3 weeks, could be more lost track, I never go shopping, I’ve had a weekly order from Tesco but the never have any flower, even corn flour’s  gone now as well.  Never mind, try again next week,🙂

    I cant complain , I’ve never been let down with an order or the goods I’ve ordered.
    spoke to my cousin in Norfolk yesterday, her Tesco’s have put all their older staff off on full pay.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There was plenty of gram flour in the Asian section of Sainsbury's but apart from bahjees, I wouldn't know what to do with it. I don't think you can use it for bread.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited April 2020
    @B3 - a friend of mine in Huddersfield was thinking that too so I googled for her.  I quite fancy trying this one - https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-socca-a-naturally-gluten-free-chickpea-flatbread-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-169513

    but if you like sandwiches, try this https://www.powerhungry.com/2019/01/chickpea-flour-sandwich-bread-vegan-grainfree-5-ingredients/ 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    We use gram flour to make sort of fritters , mainly courgette as it is a good way to preserve them in the freezer but it works well with sweet corn kernels or even leek. It is also a good way for us to get vegetables into fussy granddaughters as its not so obvious that their green!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Just looked in online tesco, no flour, no sugar, no mixed fruit, everyone’s turned to cake making now.

    My daughter made me laugh, her 11 year old doesn’t like to sit and read a book but does like cooking so she made him read through the recipe books to find something he wants to make, so reading, weighing and cooking, a science lesson all thrown in. 
    She is loving this lockdown with her kids. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well if there's still some there when I go back next week, I'll try a small bag😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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