| Tom's Pantry Tom's Pantry for the week of September 14th, 2020. Baking and delivering this week! Hello Folks. You can review my baking schedule on my website: http://www.tomspantry.ca/ . I will bake this Friday September 18th for pick up at my home on Friday evening. I will attend the Vankleek Hill Farmers Market this Saturday September 19th from 9.30am to 12.30 pm. We welcome pre-orders and public browsing. Also join us for some live music. I will deliver to homes on my trip on Saturday to Vankleek Hill. I will travel through Crysler, Limoges, Casselman and St-Isidore on the way there in the early morning. In the afternoon, I can deliver on my way home in Alexandria and Maxville. In addition, I can have bread with me during my visit to Chesterville on Saturday evening. I need your order please by Thursday evening 8pm in order to prepare enough levain overnight. See the product descriptions and ordering considerations here . And then, view the price list and order online with Local Line . Next week, Thursday September 24th, I will be at the Parkdale Farmers Market in Ottawa and I will perform home deliveries in Ottawa and in the region north-west of Berwick. There is a minimum order of two loaves for a home delivery on a scheduled route. Take advantage of my organic flours and baking ingredients, also available in the virtual store. A big step forward! For several weeks now, I have been making about 60 loaves per week, all in one day. It is a lot of work from 6am to about 9pm, mixing everything by hand and feeding the oven 6 loaves at a time on a one-hour rotation. It makes for a very long day. I have to do something to reduce my time. So I am investing to be more time efficient. This is my new-to-me dough mixer, 20 quarts, 3 times the capacity of my manual bowl. My next step will be to add a second over in the kitchen in the next two weeks. We are just wrapping the Canada Organic Week , from Sept 7th to 13th. Canada’s National Organic Week is the largest annual celebration of organic food, farming and products across the country. The Organic Science Canada magazine is packed with the latest advancements in organic research and innovation from the Organic Science Cluster. The magazine brings you trends, news and results from across Canada. The scientists who appear in these pages are working hard to improve the sustainability and profitability of organic and low-input agricultural systems. I used the Canada Organic week to pay the Ottawa Organic Farmers Market on Bank Street near Heron. I was amazed by the lineups to buy organic vegetables, especially my long time friend David Charette at La Ferme Terre à Terre. Paper or plastic Tom's Pantry uses paper and plastic bags to package the bread. The paper bags fit the small and the rectangular loaves. But the large round loaves cannot fit into the paper bags and require plastic bags. A loose loaf without a package is great for the day of baking as the crust stays slightly crispy. A paper bag is appropriate for the day of baking and the first day after baking, maybe even the second day. It releases some moisture from the bread and keeps the crust crispy, if that is what you want. However, damp cool rainy weather will penetrate the paper bag and make the crust soft. By the third day, the bread really starts to dry out and gets tough. Beyond two days, the loaf should be kept in either a bread box or a plastic bag, perhaps in the fridge to last up to a week. A plastic bag locks in the moisture which keeps the bread moist and softens the crust, if that is what you want. The plastic bag is necessary for storage in the fridge or in the freezer. If you purchase a loaf in a plastic bag, you can remove the bread from the bag and let the crust dry out to become crisp again. A toaster does wonders to bring out the texture and the flavour of the bread while hardening the crust. Stay in touch... |
Tom's Pantry for the week of September 14th, 2020. | |
Baking and delivering this week!
Hello Folks.
You can review my baking schedule on my website: http://www.tomspantry.ca/.
I will bake this Friday September 18th for pick up at my home on Friday evening.
I will attend the Vankleek Hill Farmers Market this Saturday September 19th from 9.30am to 12.30 pm. We welcome pre-orders and public browsing. Also join us for some live music.
I will deliver to homes on my trip on Saturday to Vankleek Hill. I will travel through Crysler, Limoges, Casselman and St-Isidore on the way there in the early morning. In the afternoon, I can deliver on my way home in Alexandria and Maxville.
In addition, I can have bread with me during my visit to Chesterville on Saturday evening.
I need your order please by Thursday evening 8pm in order to prepare enough levain overnight. See the product descriptions and ordering considerations here. And then, view the price list and order online with Local Line.
Next week, Thursday September 24th, I will be at the Parkdale Farmers Market in Ottawa and I will perform home deliveries in Ottawa and in the region north-west of Berwick.
There is a minimum order of two loaves for a home delivery on a scheduled route.
Take advantage of my organic flours and baking ingredients, also available in the virtual store.
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A big step forward!
For several weeks now, I have been making about 60 loaves per week, all in one day. It is a lot of work from 6am to about 9pm, mixing everything by hand and feeding the oven 6 loaves at a time on a one-hour rotation. It makes for a very long day. I have to do something to reduce my time.
So I am investing to be more time efficient. This is my new-to-me dough mixer, 20 quarts, 3 times the capacity of my manual bowl. My next step will be to add a second over in the kitchen in the next two weeks.
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We are just wrapping the Canada Organic Week, from Sept 7th to 13th. Canada’s National Organic Week is the largest annual celebration of organic food, farming and products across the country.
The Organic Science Canada magazine is packed with the latest advancements in organic research and innovation from the Organic Science Cluster. The magazine brings you trends, news and results from across Canada. The scientists who appear in these pages are working hard to improve the sustainability and profitability of organic and low-input agricultural systems.
I used the Canada Organic week to pay the Ottawa Organic Farmers Market on Bank Street near Heron. I was amazed by the lineups to buy organic vegetables, especially my long time friend David Charette at La Ferme Terre à Terre.
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Paper or plastic
Tom's Pantry uses paper and plastic bags to package the bread. The paper bags fit the small and the rectangular loaves. But the large round loaves cannot fit into the paper bags and require plastic bags.
A loose loaf without a package is great for the day of baking as the crust stays slightly crispy.
A paper bag is appropriate for the day of baking and the first day after baking, maybe even the second day. It releases some moisture from the bread and keeps the crust crispy, if that is what you want. However, damp cool rainy weather will penetrate the paper bag and make the crust soft. By the third day, the bread really starts to dry out and gets tough. Beyond two days, the loaf should be kept in either a bread box or a plastic bag, perhaps in the fridge to last up to a week.
A plastic bag locks in the moisture which keeps the bread moist and softens the crust, if that is what you want. The plastic bag is necessary for storage in the fridge or in the freezer.
If you purchase a loaf in a plastic bag, you can remove the bread from the bag and let the crust dry out to become crisp again. A toaster does wonders to bring out the texture and the flavour of the bread while hardening the crust.
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