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Sep 5
Celebrate Organic Fortnight With Our Winning Products
Celebrate The Soil Association's Organic Fortnight (6th -21st Sept) with our Soil Association Organic Food Award-winning products. These highly prestigious awards are for two of our premium bakery products, two of our bacons and for our Ale, thereby perfectly illustrating the consistently high standard of excellence that we work hard to achieve across all our product ranges.
Sep 5
Rain, rain go away!
With all this rain our milling grains, such as wheat and rye which are largely used for bread making, can be affected and in particular the quality of the starch, which forms most of the flour. The quality of the grain is checked using a Hagberg test which measures the potential quality of the dough. In a dry sunny harvest the Hagberg number is high which means the grain has the potential to produce a good elastic dough, but when it's wet like this it starts to think its back in the ground as a seed again and results in inferior dough....and bread.