Not just any old bread

By Karen Barnes
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Fresh from the oven… |
How much do you love carbs? Imagine walking into a room crammed wall to wall with loaves of bread – artisan, mass-produced, big, small, flat, tall, crusty, soft-crusted & flour-dusted, fruity, cinnamony, oniony, sourdough, brown, white, seeded and soda… Whatever type you can think of, as long as it was some kind of loaf, it was there ready for judging at the Tiptree 2014 World Bread Awards.
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All lined up, ready for for dissection and ruthless assessment |
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Listening intently to the expert (I’m third from the left; my fellow team-mates included Linda Collister, who writes many of the Great British Bake Off books) |
Tiptree World Bread Awards 2014: The winners
The Overall Winner 2014
Ciabatta
Well done, Peter.
Feel like baking a loaf of bread? Here’s some inspiration. You can make soda bread rolls (pictured below) in half an hour if you get your skates on…
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Ready in minutes: soda bread rolls |
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