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Saturday, 15 September 2018
BREAD OVEN "PANI CANTO" CHEZ AUDREY ET JULIEN
Today (Saturday) we'd been looking forward to visiting friends at a nearby village, and witness the working of their communal bread oven, similar to the one below. Unfortunately our plans had to be changed and our visit was cancelled.
This particular oven (below) is at St Roman de Codieres , north of Montpellier, but is much the same as the one we'd planned to visit. Our first house here had its own similar huge bread oven, but we never used it. I regret that now.
The video is a bit long (5 mins); but very relaxing in its way.
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I hope it was nothing too serious that caused you to cancel something you were, obviously, looking forward to.
ReplyDeleteNo, just a friend turning up earlier than anticipated.
DeleteVery relaxing. I didn't understand a word of it. My house has an old bread oven.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why we never used ours. It was very big, and would have taken a day or more to heat-up, and the 'bakery room' itself had fallen down.
DeleteSaw one in Portugal, a stone structure built on to the side of a house owned by an English person who never used it, but it was the village communal bread baking oven. The villagers fired it up weekly and donated a sack full of loaves, he was delighted with that arrangement.
ReplyDeleteThat would be almost 30 years ago, I sometimes wonder if this tradition carries on.
My first farmhouse here was in a tiny group of three reasonably well separated farms; each of which had a huge bread oven. I believe each farm took it in turns to bake the week's bread. Sounded to me like a very sensible idea.
DeleteThat sounds like a wonderful arrangement, a great sense of community spirit. Sadly something that seems to be out of fashion in our modern go-faster profit-driven world.
DeleteThere was a government movement a few years ago to build communal bread ovens in villages. I think a few were built, but otherwise no-one bothered. Easier to buy commercial rubbish at the supermarket. Luckily we have a wonderful baker about 10 kms away.
DeleteBread of Heaven. Thank God there's still something safe to eat.
ReplyDeleteTeflon chemical C8 may be in the blood of as many as 99,7 % of Americans . . .
I'm sure we're all full of chemicals, even though they maybe just 'traces'.
DeleteA video I will watch with great anticipation. Unfortunately, or fortunately maybe, we are in a very bad reception area for 2 weeks .
ReplyDeleteBy the sounds of it, the oven is similar to something we had here when I first arrived. Then for years my m in law used to take trays of her weekly bread to the local bakers to be baked in his wood fired kiln.
Looking forward to watching
These ovens are found all over Europe, unfortunately not many are still in use.
DeleteI am sure the oven cooks wonderful bread and who does bread better than the French. The last loaf looked like it was topped with icing.
ReplyDeleteI wish we could smell the video too.
ReplyDeleteThat video was pleasing and relaxing on so many levels. I fancied her too, which was a bonus.
ReplyDeleteI mean Audrey, of course.
DeleteIt's the hair and shoulders that does it.
DeleteThe village where I lived a s a child in Lincolnshire used to have a communal bread oven. It had not been used for many years and expect it has long disappeared.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching that video, I now want to set to and bake bread. Would that it would turn out like theirs.
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