A baker knows when a loaf of bread is done and a builder knows when a house is finished. |
There's a proper greengrocer's, a butcher, a baker, a haberdashery and a good old-fashioned ironmonger among others. |
They made her a gift of the round breadboard and on it Andrew placed a crusty loaf which the baker had given him in return for two crabs. |
The name Sally Lunn is said to commemorate a woman baker of that name who had a pastry-cook's shop and cried her wares in the street. |
And there's no bread in Diggory's shop, so the chubby baker has just tried to palm him off with some Eccles cakes. |
In its simplest form, this is a flour and water batter, providing food and moisture for the yeast spores which the baker hopes are present. |