Batch 474

Following the difficulties with the Spanish dishes reported at reference 1, I have been trying the largest of the tins, the 9 inch tin, bought on the occasion noticed at reference 2.

First time around, it did very well, with the cooked loaf lifting out on its loose bottom with no trouble at all. Both tin and bottom had been oiled, but I had not bothered with flouring, thinking that any good that this might have done would have faded away during the long second rise.

Second time around we have batch 474, snapped just before putting the loaves into the airing cupboard for their second rise.

I shall probably continue in this mixed mode for the time being, before moving fully over to tins in due course. I decided against haunting the car boot sales in an effort to buy a second such tin. I have given up on trying to buy one, with tinned steel cake tins clearly being a thing of the past, with all the cook shops - both bricks & mortar and online - being much more into black non-stick, which I do not care for at all, as in what seems like no time at all, the non-stick starts flaking off and presumably ends up inside me. Instead, I have bought a couple of loose bottomed, aluminium, 10 inch cake tins from Hong Kong, from ebay, for the princely sum of something like £6.50 each, including postage and packing.

At least they look like aluminium in the picture, banned in this country for some years now - with lots the stuff from our mental hospitals turning up in car boot sales at the time. Did Brussels not think to ban the import of such dangerous equipment? Or have they just given up on enforcement now we are on the way out?

It will be interesting to see how long they take to turn up.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/06/batch-472.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/05/bank-holiday.html.