Bread Basket

[Frank Pellow]

Our neighbour, Penn, has taken up bread baking as one of his pandemic-coping activities.  I have gladly taken on the taster/tester role. 

Penn's French Baguette utilizing old Cheddar cheese is particularly good :

  

I made him this, Steve Good designed, basket as a small thank-you gift:

       

 

[JimErn]

That is really a nice and good idea

[don in brooklin on]

Very scrumptious.

Did you make it longer that the pattern?

 

 

[Frank Pellow]

1 hour ago, don in brooklin on said:

Very scrumptious.

Did you make it longer that the pattern?

 

 

Well spotted Don. 

I increased the length of the basket by about one third.  Some of those Baguettes can get quite long.

[Sleepy57]

Very Nice!

 

[Danj84]

That's a great idea,well done it looks great

[daveww1]

the bread looks good, very nice job on the basket.

[namunolie]

it is good Idea~~ look very nice~~~

[amazingkevin]

That will do it!!! Thanks for showing Frank!!!

[meflick]

Great looking project and I am sure your friend will love it. I hope you thought ahead and made two, one for you so you can have him filling it.

[Dragonkort]

what a wounderful thank you for your friend!!! his bread looks good too!! now is he using yeast or is it a yeastless bread?   also is he doing it all by scratch and by hand or does he use a bread making machine ?  I would  have loved to have had a bread machine when my kids were little lol I finally stoped making homemade bread because the family would eat it faster the  I could make it!! lol iv thought of getting a bread machine and making home made bread for me and spike but spike  says that's to much work  for just a loaf of bread!! lol can you tell I at oe time worked in a bakery?  lol I even know how to get the fillig into long johns and jelly donets lol 

[heppnerguy]

what a great basket. I have not seen this pattern an Steve Good's page. I guess he just has so many patterns there that it is easy to miss one, here and there. I love you project and reason for making it

Dick 

heppnerguy

[Frank Pellow]

38 minutes ago, Dragonkort said:

what a wounderful thank you for your friend!!! his bread looks good too!! now is he using yeast or is it a yeastless bread?   also is he doing it all by scratch and by hand or does he use a bread making machine ?  I would  have loved to have had a bread machine when my kids were little lol I finally stoped making homemade bread because the family would eat it faster the  I could make it!! lol iv thought of getting a bread machine and making home made bread for me and spike but spike  says that's to much work  for just a loaf of bread!! lol can you tell I at oe time worked in a bakery?  lol I even know how to get the fillig into long johns and jelly donets lol 

Penn makes his bread with yeast and does not use a bread machine.

My wife Margaret and I also make bread but, mostly, we use a machine and have done so since the early 1990s.  Margaret's father owned and ran a small bakery when she was a child.

[Frank Pellow]

1 hour ago, meflick said:

Great looking project and I am sure your friend will love it. I hope you thought ahead and made two, one for you so you can have him filling it.

Thanks, I just made one but I am think about making another one.

[teachnlearn]

I've seen videos of the French biking with a long stick of bread over their shoulder. A french version would be quiet long. RJF

[Dave Monk]

Great job Frank. I'm sure they will love the basket.

[wombatie]

That was a great idea and a thoughtful gift.  Seems like you are both enjoying his pandemic coping activity. 

Marg