I know what he means, it is a simple wholesome loaf of bread, a sort of boy and girl next door type of bread……. The final loaf was soft inside with a nice crust, and this bread has a very comforting taste about it, my husband said he wanted to eat his buttered slices with a glass of milk. I then experimented with the amount of dough, my first attempt resulted in a loaf that did not fill the tin and was an odd shape, not round at all! But finally, I cracked the code, and as you can see from my photos, I have managed to create a wonderful recipe for a traditional old-fashioned milk loaf. (She was a wonderful home baker too)Īnd so, when the lovely Ria and Sarah sent me a Mermaid Milk Loaf tin just before Christmas, my obsession was rekindled again. I was thrilled with my tin, and set about looking for a traditional milk bread recipe straight away…….but, there are not many of them out there, so in the end I resorted to one of my old Be-Ro cookbooks and used the non-yeasted milk bread recipe as a guide but with bread flour and yeast. I was desperate to have “round sandwiches” to take to school and was fascinated with the idea of round toast too……these homely milk loaves became a bit of an obsession with me, and I badgered my grandmother until she finally caved in and bought one.

I remember asking my grandmother if we could buy one when I stayed with her, as we never had these round bread loaves in our house, it was always mum’s home-baked bread or Hovis. I think all children loved them, it wasn’t just the shape or the fact that you got “round” slices of bread, it was the little ridges all along the loaf, like an easy slice guide. Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipeĭo you remember those old-fashioned bakers, those ones where you could buy a loaf of bread and they used to pop it in a white paper bag and do that magic twisting thing to seal it – like sweet shops used to do as well. They may not have had the variety of “trendy” loaves and bread that we see nowadays in an artisan baker, but, they stocked all of my favourites such as Bloomers, Farmhouse White, Hovis, Cobs, Cottage Loaves, Split Tin, Baps, Barm Cakes, Tea Cakes, Fruit Loaves and so many more…….and amongst all of those baked beauties, was the loaf of my childhood dreams, the cylindrical Milk Loaf.

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