Give us each day our daily bread

Stuffed with pistachios and assorted dried fruits.

She who must be obeyed enjoys bread with her breakfast; specifically fruit bread laden with far too many pistachios to make economic sense for a baker to produce. Step forward Spike who uses a bread machine who employs the delicate skills employed by master bakers over generations to produce masterpieces such as the above.

It took a while to find a recipe that worked well; and then it was just a matter of adding ever increasing volumes of fruit and nuts until a saturation point was reached and the loaf collapsed under the weight of its own ingredients. The mixture seems to be optimal now, it certainly looks and smells OK. I just hope she enjoys it; for ever and ever until she has scoffed the lot.

Amen.

Comments 🔗

2013-09-02 | genuinej says

Looks nice. Shame about your liquid regime. A friend told me that on a recent visit to a zoo he saw a slice of toast in a cage. The sign said “Bread in Captivity”.

2013-09-02 | Spike says

Very witty.

2013-09-03 | ChristianPFC says

It took me some seconds to get the joke (but then I found it hilarious) to the benefit of others who are as dumb as I, but don’t want to admit, I will explain it:

Breed (present tense) - bred (past tense) - bred (past participle), i.e. the animal in the cage was not caught in the wild, but bred in captivity. Bread is pronounced the same way as bred, which makes them homophones.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/bread-bred

2013-09-03 | Camberley says

Can I not persuade you to abandon the machine and do it by hand? Would telling you than kneading bread is like playing with a breast help?

2013-09-05 | Spike says

Wouldn’t it be easier just to play with a breast?

2013-09-05 | Camberley says

I was going to make some comment about being able to eat it later, but of course…

2013-09-06 | Spike says

Of course. I know your history Camberley.

2013-09-06 | Camberley says

You are a dangerous man