Trying to make baguettes

I recently borrowed some books from the library and two of those were about bread making. Both were by the same baker.  One book was called Dough and the other Crust. I have a bread making machine but I wanted to try my hand at making bread without the machine and the bread I wanted…

Use your loaf. . . .

If you tell someone to use their loaf, you are telling them in a slightly angry way that they should think more carefully about what they are doing.  In Cockney rhyming slang  ‘loaf’ is short for ‘loaf of bread’ which means head.  My father, after retiring from the Air Force, used to work for The…