We regularly made all our own bread, but kind of got out of the habit of doing so last summer - there was too many other things to do and little time for kneading dough! Both parents and friends have breadmakers (and love them) but seeing the Rayburn is on in the evenings and the ovens in it are hot, it makes no sense for us to burn more leccy when we are paying through the nose for oil!
I have been trying to use Richard Bertinet’s recipes, but have managed to get into a right mess doing them by hand. His dough is VERY wet, and on each try I have ended up with webbed hands. I have always had to surrender and fling on more flour to dry up the dough.
I was luck on Saturday to collect a Kenwood Chef from Jen in Dunbar through Freecycle. I have been considering one for a while now and after blagging a dough hook from my wee brother I had a bash at his recipe in the Chef and all turned out perfect!
The flour came from Heatherslaw Mill between Ford and Etal in Northumberland. It’s about an hour’s drive for us but fortunately my parents were passing it last week after having been visiting friends in Hexham - Don’t say Brown, say Hovis! 
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