Our Daily Bread - Reel 2 (1962)

there's nothing to do now but wait for nature to perform its miracle of fermentation in its own good time two hours it takes to rise up and fill the pan it doesn't do to speed the pace of nature it must be allowed the slow natural process which is the very heart of a loaf of bread all you can do is to utilize the strength of steel for kneading the rising dough reactivating it so that the yeast can make the bread even livelier until it is ready to be scaled nature will need another two hours to work on the dough before it's ready to go down the elbow shoot to the bakery below and here's one of the earlier mixes that is ready the dough divider cuts it up into small pieces which go by conveyor to be molded by what they call the umbrella now the does got to recover and form its shape this is the beginning of the proving process it'll do five circuits in the muslin pockets of this first prover slowly sorting itself out a gentle shaping roller gets it ready for its tin this bread they're baking is twist loaf it's an art our bakers have developed of turning those long stretchy yeast bubbles so that they lie across the loaf where their shadows don't hide the whiteness of the bread and now nature takes over again the pans go into the second prover for yet another period of settling down and forming a shape it's the age-old process that grandmama learned from her grandma to give us our daily bread the staff of life only now we've made our bread better and even more hygienic small lows take 30 minutes to bake and large loaves take seven minutes long then just look at it wonderful bread they've even got a machine to take the bread out of its pans now mother nature again and a three hour cooling cycle what bread do you like best you can take your choice with sunblessed for me cottage loaves with their crusty bases of the best see how they're shaped grandma would never believe it possible that looks like vienna bread just watch them roll out french bread french sticks there no no all sorts of things not rolls bloomers all carefully scored here they come baps they're shaping baps now imagine it a great traveling oven full of lovely baps slicing wrapping all done by modern machinery and every single loaf from this and every other sun blessed bakery is sold within hours of leaving the oven this is the traditional scottish batch loaf most scottish people prefer this type of bread with its crisp crust and nutty flavor it's a fine example of a good sun-blessed loaf the loaves go into the oven 27 in a row spaced so that when they rise they likely touch each other which stops the side crust forming wooden battens which space out the rows are whisked away so that the ends of the loaves also touch this process makes splendid tall low snowy white all round with crust only at bottom and top generations of scots have enjoyed this kind of bread produced nowadays with modern methods and under the best conditions truly bred at its best here in the dispatch department the personal orders for individual shops and roundsmen are loaded on separate trolleys this is a shop delivery van and this is the department where they really get a move on you can't speed up mother nature's fermentation processes but you can get a move on with deliveries and you'd think these chaps were selling evening papers the way they're hurrying things along fresh lovely bread by the van load it needs a big fleet of vans and impeccable organization to get that new baked bread to your table while it is still fragrantly fresh it's a challenge that sunbless took and triumphantly so there you are the squeeze test to see its light and spring like as not you will find a big range of sun blessed bred varieties in the supermarket as well as in the baker shops your corner shop is usually up to date as far as stocks are concerned you can reckon on getting sunblessed bread from the best of them a lot of the sun blessed vans are mobile baker shops providing a doorstep service on the big housing estates now we'll stock these vans with a whole variety of different loaves because every housewife has our own favorite kind of bread look at the bouncing with health and energy the health and energy you get from bread so many of us take bread for granted forgetting what a valuable food it is with its rich supply of calcium and other minerals with his vitamins and its high protein content it's not called the staff of life without good reason the squeeze test from the youngest lady oh do you cook with bread i know my wife dog amazing the variety of things you can make with it bread pudding is just the beginning omelets with bacon and fried bread croutons my wife makes this one summer pudding with raspberries and of course croutons and soup brown betty puddy so you can go on that's a new one on me a bread and cheese dish well you could make them up as you go on and who'd ever eat a hamburger a good hot sizzling hamburger with its rich aroma without putting it in a roll of bread oh very endless the different ways there are of enjoying bread especially sun blessed crisp and crusty light and springy brown with the vitamins and the wheat germ or white and wonderful but you'd better come back to our harvest festival the service is over and they've just been auctioning all the harvest produce for church funds as they always do now we're all rediscovering some of the good things to eat that you make with bread yes i will oh and how about some tomatoes your bread and cheese eh well it should be good because 10 mom a piece cheese and brown bread that's splendid like new fine i've been three please mr brother oh and cheddar if you will right and i'll trust you all for me too please fine and try some of the wise happy times while you wait hi congratulations thanks all the real goodness of the quad countryside on a plate and the bread we both helped to make is the centerpiece ah this is the occasion i get quite lyrical about the one food stuff which in one or other of its many fascinating forms and shapes we could never do without here hmm you

Channel: British Pathé

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Keywords: documentaries, newsreel, bloomers, documentary, public, DOCS, cooking, rolls, stikcs, Reuters, food, Sunblest, bakeries, BritishPathe, bread, loaves, French, 2707.04, baps, grocery, British Pathe, Vienna, pubs, houses, footage

Id: PSSCn7ZXt48

Length: 15min 45sec (945 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 13 2014