Stoneground WHITE flour available in South Oxfordshire

[Paul Cannell]

Hello playmates,

I was recently converted to sourdough bread-making by a charming couple from the Iffley Road. It's hard work but it has it's advantages - for one thing, after a couple of days of rye bread my turds are truly kingly! And so authentic, with organic, stoneground flour and slow fermentation!

Now, last weekend I made a fougasse for Lady Cannell which was a flop (as so many thing are for her; another story for another day, perhaps) on 2 counts: the leaven was based on my 2-year old starter (which has become, like me, sour and flaccid), and since I misread the label on their stoneground flour in Waitrose, a store I'm unfamiliar with being heretofore a denizen of only Asda's drinks shelves, the flour was wholemeal. Whoever thought of a flat wholemeal fougasse? Sadly, being retired now, I have no time to fuss about in shops reading labels and grabbed the first bag that said stoneground. Who knows, I may have been distracted by one of their 'trademark MILFs' although this was Abingdon, so that's hardly fucking likely.

Anyway, I have ordered some Northumbrian organic white homeground flour from Amazon but I would rather patronise a local supplier, if possible. I'm sure of lot of you are into sourdough so please let me know if you know a local supplier.

Toodle pip!

 

[AbbeyOx]

try this place. drive past every morning on way to work, not sure if they sell it but worth a call

Added Ingredients

Added Ingredients

www.addedingredients.co.uk

 

[AbbeyOx]

or

Wessex Mill | Artisan flour milled in Wessex from local grain

We are proud to source our grain from local farmers, which is slowly milled to make our award-winning flours. Popular with home and professional bakers

www.wessexmill.co.uk

my late father enjoyed a bit of bread making. no idea where he got his ingredients though but must have been local

 

[Paul Cannell]

Thanks.

BTW, I is told Wessex is all roller-ground, which their packaging & website also supports.

Will check out the other. Thanks again.

 

[Sarge]

these may be worth trying, several options .... all come with a 5-star chef's recommendation too


https://www.shipton-mill.com/flour-direct-shop/flour/white-flour

 

[Paul Cannell]

Tell her 'thanks', mate. Nice one.

try this place. drive past every morning on way to work, not sure if they sell it but worth a call

Added Ingredients

Added Ingredients

www.addedingredients.co.uk

They have morels!

 

[makv]

I’ve been making sourdoughs from the same starter for about 12 years. I Waitrose own brand Canadian Strong flour, or good old Allinsons. The co-op one is pretty good. And yes, Added Ingredients in Abingdon are good too.

 

[Paul Cannell]

Canadian Waitrose seems to be wholemeal only, tho good, which started this thread.....

Cheers

 

[SteMerritt]

I'm intolerant to bread ? this thread isn't helping, and as a mod I can't ignore it, I have to read it just in case you use naughty words (or worse, use lots of capital letters) ?

I bloody love bread... It doesn't love me back ?

 

[Northstandboy]

I'm intolerant to bread ? this thread isn't helping, and as a mod I can't ignore it, I have to read it just in case you use naughty words (or worse, use lots of capital letters) ?

I bloody love bread... It doesn't love me back ?

Surely it's worth the pain? ?

 

[Marked Ox]

Surely it's worth the pain? ?

That had me rolling around with laughter but I now feel a bit flat.

 

[MJB]

I'm intolerant to bread [emoji17] this thread isn't helping, and as a mod I can't ignore it, I have to read it just in case you use naughty words (or worse, use lots of capital letters) [emoji17]

I bloody love bread... It doesn't love me back [emoji17]

No need to make a wholemeal out of it.

 

[chuckbert]

Don’t rise to it Ste

 

[Manorlounger]

 

[makv]

Canadian Waitrose seems to be wholemeal only, tho good, which started this thread.....

Cheers

Definitely not in my Waitrose (Abingdon). They have white for sure.

 

[makv]

Here’s one (well, two actually) I made earlier

 

[Dubai Yellow]

I cook a lot and want to start baking my own bread. Any advice on the best method for something like sour dough?. (Definitely the best toast out there imho)

 

[Sarge]

these may be worth trying, several options .... all come with a 5-star chef's recommendation too


https://www.shipton-mill.com/flour-direct-shop/flour/white-flour

they offer wholemeal flour too ...

https://www.shipton-mill.com/flour-direct-shop/flour/wholemeal-flour

 

[makv]

I cook a lot and want to start baking my own bread. Any advice on the best method for something like sour dough?. (Definitely the best toast out there imho)

Yes. Buy The Handmade Loaf by Dan Lepard. Completely changed the way I bake bread.

 

[chuckbert]

Or if you run out of time/enthusiasm after a while, get a Panasonic breadmaker and follow the instructions! Never use a bread-mix though they are expensive and not as good as fresh ingredients.

 

[AbbeyOx]

I cook a lot and want to start baking my own bread. Any advice on the best method for something like sour dough?. (Definitely the best toast out there imho)

i’ve got some advice but it’s on a knead to know basis

 

[makv]

One more thing - some of the larger supermarkets with in-store bakeries will actually give you fresh, dried yeast if you ask nicely. Actually, they’re not allowed to give it you, but they’ll sell it you for 1p.

 

[Big Ronaldo]

Can’t believe I read 2 pages of this Cannell.

Jeez makv, did you use an oven or a flamethrower on that bread mate??????

 

[Paul Cannell]

Yes. Buy The Handmade Loaf by Dan Lepard. Completely changed the way I bake bread.

Seconded.

 

[Paul Cannell]

Definitely not in my Waitrose (Abingdon). They have white for sure.

That's where I got mine. Perhaps this is age-related. I shall check after I use my soon-to-arrive Northumbrian malarkey.

 

[Whingit]

Threads like these are what keep me on this forum.

 

[brokeandobscure]

Bread-making masterclass on Radio 4 at the moment.

 

[Paul Cannell]

I’ve been making sourdoughs from the same starter for about 12 years. I Waitrose own brand Canadian Strong flour, or good old Allinsons. The co-op one is pretty good. And yes, Added Ingredients in Abingdon are good too.

Right. Waitrose Canadian white flour maybe wonderful (probly), ok or not, but it's not stoneground, I surmise, otherwise it would be dearer and they would shout about it on the label, like the Waitrose Canadian wholemeal. I was in Waitrose,Wallingford yesterday and checked it out while recalibrating the milfometer (low readings). This matters because a. stoneground absorbs more water (as my recent Asda 69p flour (nice loaf, btw) and underway now Wessex Mills 195p efforts prove*) and b. allegedly and quite believably it tastes better.

I'm using Wessex Mills because the Bear shop has it and it's convenient for when I'm coping with Archibald, and because my much-vaunted Northumbrian stoneground white flour's not been delivered by Amazon yet.

* I could add into that parenthesis that I have made a wholemeal stoneground loaf (using Waitrose Canadian etc) and the water measure from Hamblins was just right. Also that I have a photograph of this loaf, and it's nice - trust me.

 

[Paul Cannell]

And, a white loaf made from a wholewheat starter and white, roller-miller flour.

 

[Paul Cannell]

Photography course next.