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9:24 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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Has anybody else tried this bread? It looks like a sliced brown pan but it has a very different texture and flavour to your ordinary dull wholemeal loaf.
Toasted, with a decent dollop of butter spread over it and made into a sandwich with a simple fried egg in the middle - yummmmmm. It has become our regular daily brunch since Christmas. Equally great as a sandwich with our grilled home cured bacon or a free range pork sausage.
It costs about £1.20 (isn't all bread expensive these days?) and we would not want it every day but it is a real treat, certainly with fry-ups.
Never knowingly underfed
10:26 pm
Supreme Being
Wed 30-Dec-09
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I presume you've bought this in Waitrose ....?
I haven't heard of it, but I do know that linseed is very good for you with such properties as antiseptic; gentle laxative; anti-inflammatory; expectorant; etc
I made some wholemeal pittabreads today - perhaps next time I'll add some linseed, too...... yes, maybe I will.
10:43 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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brightspark said:
I presume you've bought this in Waitrose ....?
LOL 
Hmmmmmmm - am I THAT transparent?
I believe it is widely available but there is such a variety of bread on display on supermarket shelves these days that any bright spark could be forgiven for not having spotted the Burgen. 
Never knowingly underfed
11:01 pm
Supreme Being
Wed 30-Dec-09
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I've been holed up in deepest Wiltshire for a little while ........ maybe that's why I haven't spotted it
or perhaps it might be because I make my own !
11:11 pm
Knowledegable
Mon 21-Sep-09
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lol Danny it is marketed as a bread for ladies because o f something in it?...
good for the menopause
11:50 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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. .and S.O.L. wins this round by a knockout 
I may never recover from this.
Having said that, I guess the menopause was never as much fun before Burgen bread was invented 
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12:05 pm
Supreme Being
Thu 24-Sep-09
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Oh Danny, I absolutely love this bread. The only place I could get it was in a little Spar shop about 15 miles from here. Then it closed down for a while. It has opened again under new management so I don't know if they have it. I feel a trip to Tighnabruaich coming on. It is such a treat. I want some now!
Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
12:55 pm
Councillor
Tue 22-Sep-09
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There are other varieties-the sunflower seed one is good too and as for the cranberry, oddly NOT available at Waitrose but at our corner shop....wonderful. Really good ready sliced bread- how unsuual is that? Bizarrely every other bread was sold at at Waitrose last week, I'm quite pleased Burgen is still a secret delight so there is always some left for us, but then, some people are really taken aback by bread with seeds in it, let alone fruit AND seeds! Toasted it is bliss...
Kateuk makes things at http://www.etsy.com/shop/finkstuff and sometimes she does this too http://www54paintings.blogspot.com/ and also this http://finkstuff.weebly.com/
1:02 pm
Supreme Being
Thu 24-Sep-09
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I love bread with seeds in it, especially toasted. I do some in the breadmaker and just put lots of mixed seeds in.
Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
1:03 pm
Supreme Being
Thu 24-Sep-09
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Oh and dried cranberries go in too.
Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
5:29 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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S.O.L. said:
good for the menopause
Too late for me then!
I'll try that again!
6:48 pm
Supreme Being
Wed 30-Dec-09
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Oh, Danast, if it is that good, then I must try it.
TA - I thought the menopause went on forever - or is it me? Or does it just feel like it? 
6:50 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Nah, it stops eventually, don't lose heart! 
I'll try that again!
8:12 pm
Councillor
Tue 22-Sep-09
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Yep, eventually it does stop...sort of....you'll know when, as you will develop a Dr Crippen moustache. Or is that just me?
Kateuk makes things at http://www.etsy.com/shop/finkstuff and sometimes she does this too http://www54paintings.blogspot.com/ and also this http://finkstuff.weebly.com/
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