Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives

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Will the REAL Slim Shady please stand up: Watch rapper Aitch transform into Eminem for Maya Jama's Halloween bash The Beatles record last ever song with ALL four members 43 years after John Lennon's death: Band release a short film on the making of single Now and Then What’s that famous saying? Don’t cry over spilled milk? But you can cry over a freshly made loaf of bread. Place the shaped dough on a sheet of parchment paper cover with a damp tea towel and set aside in a warm, cosy place to rest for one hour. It is a cookbook with the power to make you cry – or it did to me. The difficulties Kitty and her family went through, the difficulties of mental and physical health, financial worries – but bizarrely, it was the power that bread has over people that made me emotional. If you’re not a baker then you may not realise what I mean by that. I bake (unprofessionally), although not as much as I used to thanks to a Neurological condition I have developed, but I still try to when I can. Baking has always been my way of dealing with fierce emotions. When I lost my dad, I baked an absurd amount of cakes and biscuits for the hospice staff; I bake (and eat) when I’m stressed, when I’m sat, when I’m bored, when I’m happy. It’s just my moment to completely forget about everything else and the joy you get seeing someone enjoy what you’ve made is priceless. And to see that written down on paper was what made me cry.

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But the recipes are only half the book. The first half of the book is a memoir. This book is written by Kitty and her father, Al - they tell the story together and they each have a distinct font. It's the story of how they ended up running a bakery together, and while that sounds all heartwarming - and it is, absolutely - but it starts because baking a loaf of bread is one thing that Al tries to help Kitty with her crippling anxiety. Like, anxiety that made going to school impossible, getting out of bed barely feasible, nothing in the world seeming worthwhile. I deeply appreciated the honesty that Al in particular presents here - that he and his wife did not see what was happening at the start, that they were bewildered by the change in their youngest daughter, and that they struggled to figure out what to do. Kitty, of course, is also very honest: she didn't know why it happened, either, and makes no excuses for it, or for feeling the way she did. It just was. EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Mystery as Prince Andrew's favourite club Tramp - which played host to stars including Michael Caine and Keith Moon - closes its doors

Breadsong

Halfway through the resting time, preheat the oven to 210C fan/gas mark 9 or as high as it will go. Put a large cast-iron casserole dish with a lid and a heatproof handle into the hot oven for 30 minutes to heat up.