The Irish Are Invading
One of the things I noticed at The Allergy Show was the number of new companies that I’d never heard of before. Several of these exhibitors were from Ireland and I stopped at one called Pure Bred from Donegal. I had a taste of their gingerbread and it was seriously good for a commercial product, that didn’t have a touch of the dry about it.
As I needed a loaf and buying Genius, where I live, means shopping other than my convenient Waitrose, I bought one of their sliced wrapped farmhouse loaves.
Bread to me must do three main jobs; make good toast, edible sandwiches when I travel and also make a good crust for some of the recipes I use like this fish from Mary Berry.
When I got home, I made some toast.
The bread certainly made seriously good toast.
One question that must be asked, is all this Irish gluten-free activity, a sign that the Irish economy is on the way to a full recovery?
The Anonymous Widower 
There is a high rate of coeliac disease in Ireland.
Comment by Anne | July 5, 2014 |
There also is in both Liverpool and possibly Glasgow.
Have you seen the bread there. And does your M&S have the quiches and scotch eggs?
Comment by AnonW | July 5, 2014 |
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No I have not seen the Pure Bred here but we have much better choice of decent bread here such as Aldi and Lidl bake a fresh loaf when they have their instore bakery. There are some lovely soft rolls also …. and big plus is that the newer range do not need to be toasted to be edible. Glasgow and Liverpool = high coeliac rates might be result of large immigrant Irish population historically.
Comment by Anne | July 9, 2014 |