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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:00 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

Aren't you within 50 miles of wheat-growing country?

What, the rolling plains of Hackney?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:01 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

Aren't you within 50 miles of wheat-growing country?

Absolutely, but I don't know of any flour milled locally from local wheat, the nearest we've got is Marriages and they make no origin claims for their flour

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:02 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

What, the rolling plains of Hackney?

They're wetlands sunshine, be rice paddies soon....

sean
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:02 pm Post subject:
You could have a meal that didn't involve flour.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:05 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

judith wrote:

Aren't you within 50 miles of wheat-growing country?

Absolutely, but I don't know of any flour milled locally from local wheat, the nearest we've got is Marriages and they make no origin claims for their flour

Well I'm alright, Jack

Quote:

Our traditional Bacheldre Flour is milled from local wheat grown at Bacheldre Farm, as it would have been done hundreds of years ago. It is a truly local flour and 100% Welsh with minimum of food miles.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:07 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

Well I'm alright, Jack

Quote:

Makes quite solid bread doesn't it? Tasty though.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:08 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

You could have a meal that didn't involve flour.

Yeah, just thinking of the meals that'd be excluded on those grounds

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:09 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Makes quite solid bread doesn't it? Tasty though.

Particularly when they put wholemeal flour in an unbleached white package, as happened to me once. Couldn't work out why I kept producing house bricks.

sean
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:10 pm Post subject:
Dunno, we don't eat that much in the way of bread/s. And our local spuds are in the shops.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:10 pm Post subject:
Yeah, we'd be banking on spuds as our local carb

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:17 pm Post subject:
Interesting... New thread each week in the seasonal shopping section?

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:20 pm Post subject:
I'm in, especially since Judith reminded me that I have a local vineyard only a few miles away. And a friend of mine sells veg from her farm one mile away. (The slugs won.) And I live near the sea. However I will need lots of ideas...

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:22 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Interesting... New thread each week in the seasonal shopping section?

Either that or we all start our own thread in that section and update it as the weeks go on. Which do you think will work better?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:24 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

I'm in, especially since Judith reminded me that I have a local vineyard only a few miles away.

The Mws Piws brewery is probably within range too.
Not that I haven't started my research already at all.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 08 4:50 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

Well I'm alright, Jack

ditto Wessex Mill based in Wantage

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