Real bread: The reasons why you should make and eat this quality staple

Valerie O’Connor opines on the wisdom of using one’s loaf — and suggests forgoing ‘Satan bread’, the chemically-treated ‘pseudough’ product implicated in gut, allergy and other serious health problems.

Delicious, crusty baguettes baked with just flour, water, yeast and salt.

Bread. Just writing the word invokes so many feelings now. Images of hot toast, crunchy and dripping with real butter, comfort, reassurance, familiarity.

If you cast your mind back to your childhood, surely one consistent thread was bread, tea and toast, corned beef sandwiches, jam sandwiches and more.