Daniel Etherington

Quick inventory of the flour I’ve got:
Strong white flour
Strong wholemeal flour of an organic persuasion
Stromg wholemeal flour ground at the watermill at Otterton in Devon
Four grained malted flour from Swaffham Mill in Cambridge
Self-raising white flour
Plain white flour
Tipo ‘00′ flour
Chickpea flour
Rice flour
Rye flour
Barley flour
White maize flour, aka masa harina
Buckwhea flour
And today’s new addition:
Millet flour
It’s all piling [...]

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It’s late summer already. Sheesh. Still, got to love this time of year for all the free fruit. Spent Sunday gathering elderberries, blackberries and wild plums and making stuff. Also loads of rowan berries around, but I’ve not experimented with them (you can make wine, and a jelly which is presumably like rosehip jelly).

Elder is [...]

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Friday – hot, dry and even summery. Sunday – warm and dry. Monday – warm and, so far, dry.
Saturday:

(Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the photo – and for holding the brolly while I flipped burgers…)
Still, at least we had plenty of cake:

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Oh the irony – the spellchecker on my blog doens’t recognise the word “blog”.

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I consider myself a reasonably bright person, but one area I most decidedly struggle with is economics. When the newspaper goes on about “tumbleweeds blowing down your high street” I can’t quite reconcile it with a trip to the West End of London. Around Picadilly circus at 7.30 on the evening of Sunday 26 Jan [...]

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Treated myself to a trip to the cinema yesterday, to watch the British horror film The Children. It was playing at the Empire Leicester Square, a cinema that boasts my favourite auditorium – the huge Empire 1, which has a fab, subtle lightshow before the programme starts.
The Children, being a lesser release, was in Empire [...]

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