Which is your favourite bread?Best tasting bread?

We have Hovis Granary Original sliced for our day to day bread. It's the only brown bread I've ever managed to like and it's really nice.

For a treat it's Lidl sourdough which is ridiculously cheap but only lasts about 5 minutes.. spread thickly with Yeo Valley organic slightly salted butter... mmm..

Of course, a loaf from any french bakery is delicious

Chollah

DS1's home-made focaccia with rosemary. He trained as a chef and his breads were very popular.

I buy Jackson's wholemeal bread, unfortunately this brand only seems to be available in Waitrose, which is annoying because I also buy a fair bit at Sainsbury's, so as I can't get it there I go for Allinson's wholemeal. Bread is my downfall, I particularly love artisan flavoured breads, crusty white french loaves, but only buy those if we are entertaining. If I could only eat one food it would probably be bread, which wouldn't be a very balanced diet but nevertheless delicious.

Granary (sorry that is a protected trade name). The granary type bread specifically made by our local village baker. Expensive, yes, but worth every penny and I do not waste a crumb.

Home baked wheaten soda bread, fresh from the oven, slathered in butter and raspberry jam. Oh drool and Oh my waistline! Good job it's Lent and definitely off limits (for now).

'Bobby's Foot' -lovely bread

Lidl Farmhouse wholemeal multiseed, 79p for 800gm.

Great value (other comparable loves can be twice the price) and absolutely delicious. We have it toasted every morning, either with banana or boiled egg.

I'm glad you liked the look of the bread and bakery I posted about, Jalima1108! Mark's Bakery and Mark's bread are really delicious - and I am fairly sure they will post bread to you. I wrote about their delicious and healthy gluten free bread - they only sell it on Tuesdays and Fridays, and sometimes sell out even on those days. They do other artisan bread and are very highly regarded in the area. I hope you enjoy it!

French baton from Bertinet bakery in Bath, followed by their sourdough loaf.
Nothing beats them!

The bread from my Panasonic bread maker.
There is a five hour proving time that allows the yeast to properly mature and bring out the malty flavour of the bread. Much shorter baking times does not allow that flavour to develop.

Rosemary and potato bread from Gail’s bakery is absolutely yum

DH loves Tesco Salt and Pepper stick. I think it's the seasoning that makes it tasty as the bread is pretty average.
I don't really have a favourite bread but don't see the point of thin sliced!

My husband's hot crusty bread is the best ever not to mention his buns! He bakes all the bread in our house in his trusty bread maker. Delicious!

Any baguette fresh from a boulangerie in Paris! Their flour is different....

We have a small local independent bakery chain near me and their low GI multi-seed bread is the absolute best.
I'm also quite partial to my own version of Irish soda bread, (taken from an Irish recipes tea-towel!) made with 2/3 wholemeal to 1/3 unbleached white flour, buttermilk or plain yoghurt, salt , tsp of sugar and a small knob of butter or lard.

The best bread I've had was the sourdough that I used to make myself after buying a jar of mother culture online a few years ago. It tasted delicious, even if I say so myself lol!

However it started to get a bit tedious making it. From start to finish it could take me 2 or 3 days to get the culture to double in size so that it was active enough to use and I just got fed up of having to feed it daily so stopped.

I still have all the equipment, so may go back to it one day, who knows

Niobe could your friends feeeze a couple of loaves for you to take home? I’ll be emptying my outside freezer for some!

I saw some bread that looked so tempting at the M5 services near Gloucester - from the Hobbs House Bakery in The Cotswolds. It looked delicious but I can't vouch for the taste as it wasn't gf (they may make some but there was none there).

Applegran thank you for that - I am going to look out for it!

I don’t eat much bread but I have some as a treat at the weekend and it has to be nice.

I used to buy Tesco’s honey and sunflower artisan loaf which knocked everything else into a cocked hat but they discontinued it and their subsequent ‘fancy’ bread is awful. Local bakery artisan bread is nearly £4 a loaf and I am not paying that,

Soooo.... I had a packet of spelt, brown flour in the cupboard
for some reason and it had a recipe for ‘Roman bread’ on the back. I found I had the very simple ingredients in my cupboard and, as an experiment, made a loaf, the first for forty years since school cookery lessons.

Reader, I married it. It was lovely and only just over a quid a loaf. I make two of these loaves every Friday now and freeze what is left over for the week.

The pleasure of kneading and baking is wonderful and everyone loves the bread. I have save £££££s over buying the equivalent.

DH makes the best bread ever using Duchy Organic Malted Grain flour. The state he leaves the kitchen in afterwards is another matter altogether........

GabriellaG
We were only in Bristol visiting friends, and they told us how good Hart's is, so we trundled along there.
We live 194 miles from Bristol, so I don't think we'll be making any visits especially to visit Hart's!
We usually drive there, if we leave really early (before 5-30 a.m.) we get the journey done in about four hours, whereas getting from our tiny station to the main line takes 40 minutes, then another three and a half hours, with a change at Stafford.
The train journey makes the M6/M5 look quite appealing!

MrsAllboys, Overthehills, just seen this tragic news! I am going up to Glasgow at the end of March and thought that we could bring back a couple of loaves of Mothers Pride and freeze them but I may be too late.!

I love bread but it doesn't like me but sometimes I put up with the discomfort