I know what you're thinking; what on earth is Cro doing, buying cheap white sliced bread?
The answer is simple. I've had a jar of Foie Gras sitting at the back of the fridge since before Christmas, and it's time had come. We ate it as an entrée on Good Friday, accompanied by lightly toasted 'white'.
Toast made with sliced white bread is perfect with Foie Gras, as it doesn't detract from the subtle flavour.
I can't remember the last time I bought cheap white sliced bread, it must have been decades ago.
I had totally forgotten what this stuff tasted like. Here in the UK I'm used to buying seeded wholemeal bread; which actually has a pleasant taste. This white bread has no taste whatsoever. I have never eaten thin sheets of polystyrene, but I imagine this is what it would taste like.
Having said all that, it is perfect with Foie Gras, or Paté, or even topped with St Agur.
I now have 75% of the loaf left-over, so I shall have to find ways of using it. I shall have some toasted with Marmalade, and even some more with a fried egg. I think to eat it for Breakfast would be more suited than at any other time.
I can't see myself finishing it, so the Seagulls will benefit in a few days time.
Would I buy it again? No!
Verdict: 2/10, Awful; but it has its moments!
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I love soft white bread. It's perfect toasted with marmalade or marmite. Or to wrap round a hot dog with lots of ketch up. But I never buy it. We rarely buy sliced bread. It's good old dense village loaves for us.
You can put the rest of your white sliced in the freezer. It will still be fresh when you defrost it next easter
I'm sure that Greece is like France, where pukka Bakers are everywhere. We wouldn't dream of buying sliced, packaged, bread in France. But here is quite different. I think the Seagulls will appreciate it more than my freezer.
It's okay for you rich folk criticising our cheap white loaves but for my people it is the stuff of life. Without it we would be skin and bone, sitting in lines outside Waitrose with our mongrels.
Laid end to end, it would make a good mattress. Then if you, or your mongrel, felt peckish in the night, you'd have a ready feast.
No, no, no ... horrible stuff!!
Awful! I did have a piece this morning with a fried egg; it's difficult to disguise.
I haven't bought sliced white bread for hundreds of years now, I have a breadmaker and every other day I bake and we have huge doorstep toast slices for breakfast. I couldn't even think about sliced white any more!
Bread pudding
I totally agree. I couldn't find anything else to accompany the foie gras, so I delved into the gastronomic depths. It's in the kitchen looking at me whilst I write. This afternoon it will be gone, and the Seagulls fattened.
If you mean 'Bread and Butter Pudding', it is the one thing I CANNOT eat. It literally makes me V. O. M. I. T. Strange, because all the independent ingredients are fine; but the combination isn't.
Good for bread and butter pudding! Try it!
INGREDIENTS: Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Yeast, Salt, Spirit Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Preservative: Calcium Propionate; Soya Flour, Emulsifiers: Mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids; Palm Fat, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid; Palm Oil.
Basic bread should be better than this.
No thank you!
And after all that, it tastes of Cotton Wool. A culinary disaster!
Must admit I did a double take when I saw the picture!
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