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A plain loaf, slices of which are known in Scots as plain breid (pronounced [plen brid]), is a traditional style of loaf made chiefly in Scotland and Ireland.It has a dark, well-fired crust on the top and bottom of the bread.
The original bannocks were heavy, flat cakes of unleavened barley or oatmeal dough formed into a round or oval shape, then cooked on a griddle (or girdle in Scots). In Scotland, before the 19th century, bannocks were cooked on a bannock stane (Scots for stone), a large, flat, rounded piece of sandstone, placed directly onto a fire, used as a ...
Old Scots spurtell is recorded from 1528. The Northern English dialect had a word spartle that meant "stirrer". The modern West Germanic and North Germanic languages, as well as Middle English, also have spurtle cognates that refer to a flat-bladed tool or utensil – so more akin to the couthie spurtle (see below) in shape.
A pan loaf is a style of bread loaf baked in a loaf pan or tin. [1] [2] It is the most common style available in the United Kingdom, though the term itself is predominantly Scottish and Northern Irish to differentiate it from the plain loaf. The pan loaf has a soft pale brown crust all around the bread, in contrast to a plain loaf's darker ...
A bread trough, dough trough [1] [2] or kneading trough, sometimes referred to as artesa, is a rectangular receptacle with a shallow basin, and a traditional kneading tool used for the making of dough. The wooden form has been used in Europe for centuries in breadmaking. [3]
From cutting a "cross" into the top to bless the bread to poking holes in the finished product to release evil fairies, the stories behind Irish soda bread go way beyond it accompanying corned ...
A billboard in Belfast, advertising Irwin's Softee and Nutty Krust bread. Irwin's is Northern Ireland’s largest independent bakery and supplies a range of traditional Irish breads to supermarkets throughout the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Founded in Portadown in County Armagh in 1912, as of 2017 the company reportedly had 337 ...
Bread. Barley bread; Cockle bread; Granary bread – made from malted-grain flour (in the United Kingdom, Granary flour, a proprietary malted-grain flour, is a brand name, so bakeries may call these breads malthouse or malted-grain bread.) [2] See: sprouted bread for similar. Rowie; Loaf. Cottage loaf; Manchet; Milk roll – also known as a ...