Why yes, we have flour!
It's time to go shopping for flour, after all that crop viewing around Villigen for the past couple of days. Here are a few of the items that one can find in the flour aisle in the supermarket. I photographed these little sacks (1 kg, about 2.2 lbs, each) at the chain called Migros (pronounced meegro, itself a topic for several posts). The blue band at the top of the packages state that the flour was produced in Switzerland, using natural farming practices that are ecologically appropriate. If you click on the photo, you'll see a larger image (1125 x 1500 pixels).
I've never made bread. The bread selection at the supermarkets here is more than sufficient for me. How many of you make your own bread?
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I've made my own bread... well I've tried to. Ends up like tasteless canonballs. I'm told you have to put gallons of salt in it.
I'm a bit of a Coop man myself here in Swiss-land, but the Migros bags make a really nice collage - good idea
Richard, you're back in CH! Tasteless cannonballs -- interesting description, it doesn't exactly make me want to run off to make some. I'm also more of a Coop shopper, but there are a few items Migros does better so I pop in there as well.
Me too ! My husband gave me a bread maker for my last birthday, at last ! I make some bread every week. Your picture is super !
I've never made a loaf of bread, but sometimes I do make homemade rolls and biscuits. However, my mother-in-law made bread loaves without a bread machine. It tasted wonderful with her homemade soup. She was one of those souls who made everything from scratch.
Haven't you heard? Bread is a four-letter-word in the land of Atkins worshipers ;-)
your photo collage would make a wonderful poster in the grocery store!
That's what I like most about the city daily blogs -- learning a piece of culture or community we would never have come across.
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I've made bread a few times. It's a day-long adventure when you truly do it by hand. Without a food processor or a kitchenaid like mixer one can also manage to make a huge mess. (or prehaps, it's just me being able to make these huge messes). Mostly, I've made breads that I don't find around CH, like pita or tortillas.
The pita was especially satisfying to make. I had made it for a Swiss friend's birthday party. Having taken the bread out of the oven just before taking it to the party, it was a big hit.
I don't like the flour here in Switzerland at all. We have darker and tastier flour for bread in Sweden and I just can't find the same kind here. Luckily our visitors bring some flour now and then... :-) For cookies and other sweet stuff the Swiss flour works perfectly well though.
Hi Ulrika, welcome to my Villigen blog! While I can't say that this will apply in your case, I've found that over the course of time I've been here, I've discovered sources for many of the things that I originally couldn't find. The variety of items on offer can vary from shop to shop and region to region, and I've found certain things at the Reformhaus-shops or in the Bioladen or the independent ethnic shops that I can't find at the various Coops or Migros... Of course, there's a financial premium to pay!
Yeah, the variety is better in Bouno in Brugg or other similar shops - and my favorite flour might even wait for me somewhere out there - but so far I haven't found it.
You have lots of very nice pictures on your blog (much more professional than mine, but I am still learning!) and I will surely visit "Based in Villigen" again, if only to recognize the places on your pictures...
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