The Price of Baguettes

France

Foreign muck and very very bad for you.

2 for a £1 in Iceland. Best go to Iceland.

45p in Lidl , even a choice of 2 large or 4 small , tried the 4 small rolls last weekend with a slow cooked thai chicken & did the job very well indeed

Thinly veiled "we're all doomed cos of brexit" fred.

It was a question to ask where to buy the cheapest part baked baguettes most posters realized
but there is always one who doesn't understand simple questions...

Can't see the point of buying part baked. If you are going to turn your oven on just make your own, only needs an extra ten minutes or so in the oven once you have your dough.
Mix flour, yeast and water, allow to rise then roll out into sausage shapes. Place onto baking paper on a baking tray. Cover with a cloth and allow to rise again, slash with a knife then bake.

or Answers .. not to mention Manners and basic Human Dignity !

You will also need a pinch of salt in the recipe.

Has to be fine french flour to make authentically the Baguettes you get from most bakeries are pretty dire
compared to the ones from the Boulangeries in France.

I've no desire to eat a baguette, I'd rather die.

could they be banned, post Brexit ?

I always use durum flour (pasta flour) mixed 50/50 with extra strong Canadian flour. Gives a good result.

god help us

The ones you get from UK bakeries are usually made by the Chorleywood process which is dire and tasteless. A properly fermented dough tastes much better and has much better texture.

that sounds like good advice, I don't want to look forward to meals.

Don't blame you Lfc if you eat factory made bread. Zorro will tell you how bad it is for you as well as being tasteless sticky goo.

Thanks Foinaven will have a go baking my own

it's the cost of Wheat. it doubled in 2007? and they have been shovelling in Soy/soya flour in the breads as fillers to keep the prices down. But even that is now broken. So the prices rise.

just buy your baguettes at 7pm when they reduce the prices down to 5p a baguette. pop it in microwave for ten seconds and it comes out soft and fresh again. Don't over do it in microwave, any longer than twenty seconds and it turns rock hard again.

some history about bread...
the wheat for bread was the same as it always was up to 1960's. It grew tall and golden and had an adequate yield. Then the boffins came up with Dwarf wheat, it won them nobel prizes as it produced mega yields. They say that world hunger was conquered by it, it saved millions of lives? But the dwarf wheat has a more complex structure to the old wheat. Making it harder to break down by the gut. Some say IBS is the result.

you can still buy the old type flour. but at a higher cost, as it's a foodie thing now. only for the rich and privileged few.
I was trying to get you jealous there... so you'd rush out and buy spelt flour.
maybe start a revival. At least give us a choice to the sponges we get in the supermarkets today.

You're welcome, Breedingmad.
Spelt flour has a lovely nutty taste but is twice the price of wheat flour due to it's lower yield. It proves (ferments) faster than wheat flour and is said to have been the grain used by Roman soldiers to sustain them on their campaigns.

I haven't got a microwave Zorro the last one blew a hole in the top of my fridge
when it went wrong and blew up, swore never to get one again

when I moved to my flat the first thing I looked to buy was a microwave .. almost 4 years later & still haven't bothered .. made me realize they're just a fad to sell more fast food & will probably never bother buying one now!
I just cooked a nice Chinese for example & the curry said 'Microwave in 4-6 minutes - Not suitable for oven cooking'
however it's only because the tub would fcking Melt! I put in a dish covered with foil for half an hour & tastes a million dollars !

just buy your baguettes at 7pm when they reduce the prices down to 5p a baguette.

zorro .. surely they use the same sh^t 

Spot on Mc Moonbeam when you have a microwave you tend to buy ready meals far too often.
I enjoy cooking my own stuff and it tastes better than any ready meal.

Yes totally , tastes miles better ...

I've got to quite like my cooking nowadays , also gives you time to add the rest of stuff , fried the rice on hob , cooked chips in fat fryer , then add it all to the oven with some nice naan bread & prawn toast , then leave it all for 5 minutes whilst knocking down 2 beers!

make them yourself for circa 10p.

How much is this old type flour - if it beyond the means of the masses?

Must cost a lot if no one on here can afford a few old type flour baguettes

You can find it online, jack, they might refer to it as heritage flour.

^ fánny craadock

Right.  Got it. Thanks saddo.

Might try some if I spot some.

You can find spelt flour in most supermarkets costing around £2 a kilo.

Spelt is healthy stuff, but has different baking properties to wheat, ok for bread, not so good for some other things.

I have had bread with spelt in it a few times, always liked it but never sure what it was!

No excuse not to try some now.