Flour

From a correspondent in Lyme Regis.

A snap of the front window of Colyton Butchers, of Broad Street, Lyme Regis. Where, not only do we get provincial humour about pies, we also get what appears to be copious supplies of flour from the Town Mill. It clearly helps if you still have your own flour mill in town, reduces your dependence of the vagaries of the over-tuned and over-complicated supply chains we usually rely on nearer London - a pair of overs alleged by some newspapers to be responsible for the dearth of flour in regular shops.

A mill noticed at reference 1. My recollection of their wholemeal flour was that it made rather heavy bread, even when used at my usual 1:3 ratio of wholemeal to regular. I dare say I would have got on better with their regular.

While my last recorded use of the butcher was the purchase of the faggots noticed at reference 2.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/10/to-lyme-regis.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/02/savoury-ducks.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/essential-supplies.html. My last purchase of flour, originating from a mill in Ponders End. The first batch made with it turned out rather well, as reported below.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-sack.html.