Why and how to bake your way through the lockdown
Sourdough starters are today’s pockets full of posies: charms against the surrounding pestilence
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DISSERTATIONS WILL doubtless soon be written on supermarket shortages during the pandemic. First disinfectant disappeared, then loo roll, frozen foods, pasta and rice. And then people came for the flour and yeast. There are no atheists in foxholes; there are, apparently, no carb-phobes in a lockdown.
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