A rediscovery.

Every time I go to the cupboard to pick up a clean tea-towel, I’m very aware of the top shelf. There are things up there which must have been sitting unused for the best part of thirteen years. I’m sure we all have stuff we’ve put away and forgotten about, don’t we? Amongst the empty mustard pots and Chinese rice bowls, single candle sticks and unattractive ring trees there sat the bread machine. The last time I used it was for a school Open Morning, when the pupils made bread, we had displays of different types of flour, fresh yeast and dried to examine, whilst the infernal machine whirred and clunked till the bread was cooked, making everyone jump when it sprang into action or beeped unexpectedly. So I reached it down from the top shelf and gave it a last chance. The loaf was fantastic! Several more have been made since and it’s regained a place on a lower shelf, definitely not to be forgotten again 😉