Bread (Ramsey Bakery)

[EORH]

when I worked on the Steam Packet lorries in the 50s

Wow! Are you like, a million or something? Can you maybe describe what a tourist looked like for us?

Yes I can describe what thousands of tourists look like,with 9 ships,and 4 airlines bringing them in every summer,and no I'm not quite reached a millon yet,but I was a teenager then,and every delivery to bakehouses was a bonus,the lovely bread and sticky buns,pies,and cream cakes,all tips.

Edited December 8, 2011 by EORH

[P.K.]

We use a breadmaker and like to set it all up so the loaf is baking early morning - and you can't beat that lovely bread baking smell when you get out of bed!

 

I know some people who use a breadmaker to mix the dough and raise it, but don't like the finished product cooked in a breadmaker. So once it is ready to bake, they remove the dough, put it in bread tins, and bake it normally in the oven. They say that the resulting loaves are considerably better.

 

We've tried that a few times but didn't really notice a difference other than a harder crust. I'll try it again over xmas. To have lovely lovely bread first thing in the morning though we would have to set the breadmaker to finish it's last rise and then immediately take the dough out and put it in the oven. After baking and cooling enough for slicing that would take about an hour. That's an hour the breadmaker would let you have in bed! No contest.

[Evil Goblin]

Yes I can describe what thousands of tourists look like,with 9 ships,and 4 airlines bringing them in every summer

I remember those days well - two Belfast boats and two Ardrossan boats calling at Ramsey Pier decanting hundreds of holidaymakers - and most of interest to us lads at the time, Girls Brigade Units over for their annual camp!

[Tweek]

If they run out of bread from the bakery here, I have an interesting soot, snail and plaster board based recipe if anyone wants it. Suprisingly close to the original, especially after you have let a cat play with it for an hour before you eat it.

[Merkin]

I think I'd be too nervous of fire to have a bread maker baking things whilst i was in bed. We had the fairy lights go up a few years back, nearly burnt the bloody place down.

[Dave Hedgehog]

If they run out of bread from the bakery here, I have an interesting soot, snail and plaster board based recipe if anyone wants it. Suprisingly close to the original, especially after you have let a cat play with it for an hour before you eat it.

 

You are Heston Blumenthal and I claim my £5

[hagar the horrible]

I think I'd be too nervous of fire to have a bread maker baking things whilst i was in bed. We had the fairy lights go up a few years back, nearly burnt the bloody place down.

 

You should'nt live in a cardboard box then Merry Xmas

[mad_manx]

Bought the Panasonic SD-2501WXC from amazon a few months ago.It was only £103 a few days ago but its now £ 144 so wait for amazon to bring more stock in. .Brilliant breadmaker. I set it up at night and fresh bread when I wake up in the morning ( 2-3 times a week). Excellent bread and will never buy any shop bread again. PS:I calculated the leccy usage at around 25-30P. That means that a large loaf costs me around 60p max. I have'nt included the price of the breadmaker in this calculation. Even if it lasts for only 2 years I' a happy bunny.

Edited December 8, 2011 by mad_manx

[pongo]

PS:I calculated the leccy usage at around 30P. That means that a large loaf is around 60-70p. I have'nt included the price of the breadmaker though.

 

I made a similar calculation based on the stated power consumption.

 

Then I measured it: much, much less. About 4p of electricity for a 500g loaf IIRC. That was about 2 years ago. The point is that it will not be operating at its peak usage for most of the time.

[mad_manx]

PS:I calculated the leccy usage at around 30P. That means that a large loaf is around 60-70p. I have'nt included the price of the breadmaker though.

 

I made a similar calculation based on the stated power consumption.

 

Then I measured it: much, much less. About 4p of electricity for a 500g loaf IIRC. That was about 2 years ago. The point is that it will not be operating at its peak usage for most of the time.

 

Thats correct.I calculated the leccy use based on peak usage,My mistake. That means that my large loaf costs less than 40 p (plus the cost of the breadmaker)

[mad_manx]

This Breadmaker is brlliant(and I've had 3 other breadmakers). There is still a small indent from the mixing blade at the bottom of the loaf. It's still a far cry from my first Breadmaker where I had to physically dig the blade out.

[hboy]

Listening to the 5pm news on the radio, Ramsey Bakery announced that they will cease production if the next 4 sailings are cancelled (so thats 2 down), plenty of flour around but they are about to run out of yeast! I would have thought that this could be flown in? rather than close down the bakery?

 

It's an interesting concept for a company that appears to have sold stale bread for the last 30 years.

 

 

[Guest Buddysmum]

There used to be two bakers in Foxdale - one of them being my Grandad, and the other Mr Winkle I always find RB bread stale from Shoprite. yet the ones they import (such as Warburtons, which cost about the same) are always much fresher - how does that work?

[Kopek]

I always find RB bread stale from Shoprite. yet the ones they import (such as Warburtons, which cost about the same) are always much fresher - how does that work?

 

Chemicals. Manx bread is not allowed or RB choose not to use enhancers. Not sure about enzymes tho.

 

Real bread does not keep fresh for days. RB does, not sure how they manage that? Good old Manx flour? Probably not, Manx flour is not what it used to be.

 

Laxey Mills have probably updated their milling machines to modern and although not as 'graded grains' or 'refined' as English commercial flours, it has lost its 'rusticness'. It does not bind the way it used to. Forms a homogeneous lump of dough or pastry without the stretch one use to get.

 

I think that it has lost its microscopic 'stick' molecule that it used to have in favour of the modern rounded, refined grain.

 

There, stick that in your pipe Raymond Baxter!

[Tempus Fugit]

when I worked on the Steam Packet lorries in the 50s

Wow! Are you like, a million or something? Can you maybe describe what a tourist looked like for us?

Yes I can describe what thousands of tourists look like,with 9 ships,and 4 airlines bringing them in every summer,and no I'm not quite reached a millon yet,but I was a teenager then,and every delivery to bakehouses was a bonus,the lovely bread and sticky buns,pies,and cream cakes,all tips.

that would be the little blue Scammel artics which used to do the parcels/freight deliveries ?

when there was an air terminal across the road with Hammil's (sp?) coaches doing airport runs for Silver City, Dan Air, Scottish Avaition, and the road services for BEA !

Edited December 9, 2011 by Tempus Fugit