How to tell if your bread is from a REAL Bakery or not
Bridge Baker is proud to be part of the Real Bread Campaign, promoting Great Bread, made the way it’s supposed to be, with only the best natural ingredients and no nasties.
Is your bread from a ‘REAL’ BAKERY?
Ask these questions from the place you buy your baked goods and find out.
1. Can they give you fresh yeast, or even better, some starter?
if they don’t have any, that tells you everything!
2. Ask when the bread was made?
All Bridge Baker bread is made and baked early morning on the day of sale, so you know it’s absolutely fresh.
3. Ask where the bread was made?
All of our bread is made from start to finish in house, on-site.
4. Ask if the breakfast pastries have any additives or dough conditioners.
Several so-called ‘artisan’ bakeries and chains use these.. despite them being chemical additives. We NEVER do.
Is it SOUR-DOUGH or SOUR FAUX!?
The term “Sourdough” is not currently protected, so any bread can be called Sourdough, no matter how it is made.
Supermarkets often add yeast, vegetable oils, soya, rice flours and ascorbic acid. These help to make the bread rise faster, last longer on the shelf and speed up the cooking process, so a supermarket can produce their bread at a far faster rate than genuine sourdough.
Most supermarkets sell ‘Sourdough’ (or should we call it Sour-faux?) for around £1.95 for a 400g loaf. Here at Bridge Baker, we bake genuine sourdough in time-honoured ways, for £4.95 for a large 900g loaf.. Not that different when you take into account the size of the bread, which is baked fresh overnight on-site.
As well as providing a real boost to local economies, and creating highly-skilled jobs, Real Bread bakeries can provide places of social interaction for local people.
Bridge Baker is a supporter of the Real Bread Campaign and you can find out much more about their work at their website
There’s no waste with Bridge Baker Loaves
There’s no need to worry about wasting any of our delicious loaves. They freeze beautifully, we can slice the bread and you can freeze some of it. Take out a slice and toast and it’s as good as the fresh stuff.
And there’s so much you can do with any leftover bread, from bread & butter pudding to crunchy croutons, versatile breadcrumbs to yummy French toast.
BBC Good Food has some fantastic ways to use up your loaf.