Aldi are worth watching - they occasionally get in really good flour (of all sorts) on their specials. Too infrequent to be a reliable source, though. I suppose it might be better in other parts of Europe - we always suffer from being so far out on the edge (in Twellsy’s case, about as far west as you can go without getting your feet wet).
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Tie yerselves to something heavy, Cellarites. It is blowing a hoolie and a half. And I think the Christo-type wrapping round an on-going roof extension up the road is coming loose.
Urrk.
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I wish that I could devise a way to stop people from shouting, but I stop breathing for as long azzit takes to be Very Far Away From Them. Other than that, it was fairly okayish. Glad to be of help 
Good morning.
Soo xx
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except on Amazon uk, where it starts at £3.95/kg as far as I can make out.
If you had one I’d suggest “try Lidl” where strong breadflour is 55p per kilo at the moment. But £1.10 sounds pretty reasonable.
00 is from the type of wheat as well as the milling. Continental wheat has lower protein than American wheat, and in the UK we tend to use American; that leads to a different consistency of flour.
The reason French bread goes stale so fast is that the wheat from which its flour is made has lower protein and absorbs water less readily – that is why you sprinkle it with water and put it into a sealed foil wrapper to restore it.
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Amazon UK is generally more expensive for groceries than even late-night shops, even before you add on the delivery charge. I have no idea why its vendors aren’t being competitive on price there, while they are at other things.
yardarm
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Thank-you all. As I said, I don’t need it for anything specific, I was just surprised to find somewhat ovvan specialist flour in a bog standard local mini market.
An Austrian friend’s child came back from an exchange visit & tried to bake the apple pies she had fallen in love with during her time in England.
They never came out properly, apparently.
Ornery flour there is sold as ‘glatt’ or ‘griffig’
They don’t have Bramley apples either…
Carinthia.xx
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Germany, France and Italy all have standard scales of flour types. (Different ones, of course, but German and French can be converted directly to each other.) Other places, including the UK and USA, just have descriptive labels which have no legal definition; best you can do is look at the protein content.
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Benighted peasants.
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Mr C’s Grandmother was a Bramley, distantly related to the famous family
Carinthia.xx
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There are family trees and then there are Family Trees, evidently.
and there is also the feckin’ saxophone.
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Gawds Gus
Not again…
Proffers Pitcher
Carinthia.xx
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You know rain dances? I’m working on an Aneurysm Dance - all that blowing into a reed can’t be good for him, after all.
“It’s not Covid - I’ve had no taste for years”
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You mean he has been sent some more rubber bands? Feck.
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Expanding cavity foam anna sneaky black night?
(Whether you apply it to the instrument or to the cause of the problem I leave up to you.)
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Blowing an similar Hoolie to yesterday, & raining
Onion Soup will be constructed
Carinthia.xx
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I have had a strange day
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Mondays often are.
Are you going to elaborate on the flavour of strangeness? And have you got yer knitting sorted?
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Are you sitting comfortably?
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Yes, please do begin!
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Hang on a minute
Proffers Pitchers
Declines on Chaise
Carinthia.xx
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