Stephen Fry's Oasis soup joke

After reading Nigel Slater's recipe for spelt rolls, and being intrigued about using fresh yeast, I tried to find some. Not easy, actually, even in a capital city. The interwebs found it for me.

I picked up this book in Oxfam last Sunday:


and liked the cheese rolls recipe. Of course I changed it. Weirdly, we had no mousetrap cheese (well we did have a cubic inch left, but not for long), and I'd run out of mustard seeds, so I added Parmesan and tons of pepper, and some olives for good measure.

Fresh yeast smells great. Sadly, that's lost on a blog, but here's the lovely stuff anyway.



The rest went as easily as following a recipe:






It's hard to make uncooked bread dough look good in a picture. Especially when you're trying not to get flour down the camera switches.




This is easier, though:




And this is a John Lewis-style lifestyle pic. Warm, freshly-pulled-apart bread, piled artlessly in a ceramic bowl, with 'stuff' in the background. All these types of images have random piles of desirable stuff in the background, carelessly out of focus but looking clean, neat and like it belongs in the house that waits for you, when your salary has octupled and you have a life transplant. In my case, it's the focus of the shot that's out of focus.



Better not employ may camera skills for Union, then. But the bread skills are not that bad.

These rolls were gorgeous. And even better the next day, toasted for breakfast. The Parmesan was strong the next day, and fabulous. For future ref; needs more olives, it does need the damned mustard seed, and we really need to wait until the bread is less than nuclear before ripping it apart.



Stephen Fry's Oasis joke was, of course, "You gotta roll with it."