Biggin' it up in E17 for Organiclea's Scrumping Project.

This year I wasn't able to go to the Apple Day celebrations at the Vestry House but, I was able to purchase a bottle of Organiclea's scrummpy apple juice from their Saturday stall in support of their truly inspirational Scrumping Project

A surprising number of gardens, in E17, have established fruit trees and many of these trees, for one reason or another, are neglected, the crop underutilised or left to rot on the trees. Organiclea offers a scrumping service whereby residents can register their fruit trees and for a part share of the crop an organised group of scrumpers will pick the fruit. This surplus fruit is distributed amongst community groups, at the local Apple Day Festival and is also pressed and bottled, the proceeds of which feed back into funding Organiclea's varied projects. Respek!

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   Organiclea Bread Bake

I have just got back from another inspirational Organiclea bread baking day at the Hornbeam Centre where the ardent bread bakers who attended passionately discussed their national breads for 5 hours nonstop. There was also a kitchen demonstration on how to make Chapatis over the hob and Peta Bread which billowed delightfully, hot out of the oven.

For my contribution I tried out this Brown Soda Bread from Tim Allen's The Ballymaloe Bread Book. The attraction of the recipe was to start a buttermilk plant to produce the buttermilk required and the decorative form of the bread. The buttermilk and soda made the crumb soft, dense and scone-like. My verdict: the wholewheat flour doesn't so much as disguise the taste of the soda (which I think is an acquired taste) as transmute it into something a bit more palatable. However, this may be an aftertaste of the fairies baked inside as I forgot to prick the segments to let them out!

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