Among the many weaknesses I have is a fondness for carbohydrates. I’d like to take this opportunity to lay the blame squarely at my parents’ door. If they hadn’t spent my formative years dragging me across the globe to exciting and interesting places, I’m sure I’d have gotten over my utter devotion to the sliced white loaf years ago. I can’t help it. I get ribbed by friends, all of whom follow the acknowledged advice that you should give your children brown bread, and yet secretly still like to rock up chez moi for toast and Marmite claiming that they ‘forgot to have breakfast’.
It’s no secret that I’m not the slenderest reed in the bed: how could I be when I enjoy baking as much as I do. Perhaps the baking and the love of bread products are connected. Either way, you show me bread and I will show you an empty packet a short time later. No wonder Bakestone got in touch to ask me to try their range of baked goods. And jolly good baked goods they are too.
I’m sure that the range of wholesome bread, rolls, potato cakes, scones, lush fruitfuls, barms and oven bottom muffins felt out of place so far South of Sheffield, but they were welcomed in DG Manor. Even the longer-than-usual loaf didn’t last long. Bakestone claim on their website that all bread arrives at it’s point of sale within 18 hours of baking. I can believe that: the bread was fresh and soft and tasty. The Barms were perfect for picnic lunches. The scones were ideal for afternoon tea. In fact my only complaint would be that the Fruitful Barms were not particularly fruitful. They presumably use the Yorkshire definition of fruitful (I speak as one with family roots firmly in the land of flat caps and parsimony): lob in a couple of sultanas and you’ve got a fruity treat.
Not that it mattered too much: they, as with all the other yummy bread products, were gone too fast to really show criticism. The Bakestone range is available at local convenience stores.
For more information, visit www.bakestone.co.uk or visit their Facebook Page.
*Disclosure: though I was sent a basket of Bakestone goods to sample, the opinions are all my own.
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