New guest cheese.

Having stocked the Comté as guest for a few weeks, we decided that it was time for another.  This time, we have moved our search from France to Wales.

 The Aberwen cheese is made on the Bodnant  estate using milk from the Conwy Valley.  It is made to a 300 year old recipe and has a dense, crumbly texture.  It is a traditional cloth bound cheese.  The flavour is strong with notes of citrus.  Aberwen means White Estuary in Welsh.

Cookery Demonstration.

Su. from S & J's Pantry, will be giving a cookery demonstration on Tuesday March 18th.  This will take place at 11-00a.m. in the demonstration area near to Customer Services at the centre of the market.  The theme of the demo.will be quiches.  Come along and see how easy it is to bake delicious food.  Give your mother a treat on Mothering Sunday.

St Patrick's Day: 17th March

Why not celebrate St. Patrick's Day by baking some traditional soda bread?  There are many variants of the basic recipe, but here is one to try.

Irish Soda Bread.

170g/6oz self raising wholemeal flour
170g/6oz plain flour
½ tsp. Salt
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
290ml/ ½pint buttermilk
Method.
Preheat the oven to 400 F/200 C/ Gas mark 6
Tip the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a large mixing bowl and stir.
Make a well in the centre and pour in the buttermilk, mixing quickly with a large fork to make a soft dough. You may need to add a little milk/buttermilk/water if the dough seems too stiff.
Turn onto a floured surface and knead briefly.
Form into a round and flatten slightly before placing on a floured baking sheet.
Cut a cross on the top and bake for bout 30 minutes, until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Cool on a wire rack.

The ratio of white to wholemeal flour can be varied to taste.

All the ingredients, apart from the salt, can be purchased at S & J's Pantry.

Pancake Day

Pancake day or Shrove Tuesday is just around the corner, and you will want your pancakes to stand out.  Why not make them with fine organic flour, and serve them with organic maple syrup?  Alternatively, you could use Sheffield-made jam from Greenside Deli, or cheese an pickle.  We really recommend the Lincolnshire Poacher, but Comté or Mature Cheddar would do as alternatives.

Guest Cheese

At S & J's we are proud of the quality local and regional produce we offer.  We have recently decided to offer a "guest cheese", this will normally be an artisan-made cheese from further afield.
currebntly, our guest cheese is Comté, from the Franch-Comté region of Eastern France.  A strong yet cheese, it is made from milk fed on grass or Hay, no silage is allowed.  Only milk from Montbeliarde Cattle or French simmental (or cross breeds between the two) can be used.
This quality product is available whilst stocks last at the price of £1-50 per 100g.

Yeast.

A number of customers have asked us about supplying fresh yeast to go with the flours which we stock.  We are happy to announce that we now stock fresh yeast at a price of  40p per 100g.  We usually pack this in 30g and 60g packs (12p and 24p), but are happy to weigh out any amount greater than 30g.

As a guide, 30g is slightly more than one ounce, and this is sufficient to raise 3 pounds (1.5kg) of flour.

Sweet Fishes

A book of memories from the Castle Market was produced by Archeritage.  This was the result of a project which interviewed traders and customers to find out their memories.  Together with photographs,drawings and poems, these were put together into a book.  

We are pleased to announce that we have announced further copies, which are on sale at £2-00 per copy.

Twelve Days of Christmas Video.

Thought that you might like to know that we found a video of the Twelve Days of Christmas made by the Sheffield Star.  Since we feature in it, we thought that you might like to see it.  It can be found at:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/gigs-music/video-sheffield-shoppers-singing-12-days-of-christmas-1-6330610

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