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Dinner from the new oven

Having briefly tested Al’s amazing new wood-fired bread oven, we tried it out more thoroughly a few days later.

The oven in use! With the ambitious plaited loaf just visible
Rack of lamb and sausages cooking in a cast iron skillet. Fast and good.
The master baker with an ambitious sweet plaited loaf ready to go in
My baking skills extended as far as the single-anchovy mini pizza with chopped garlic, leek and cheese.
Aelfrun spinning
Our final reward – a complete rainbow

First Firing

Al has built the Roman-style bread oven! Or as you might describe it, a budget pizza oven off the internet, mahoosively gussied up with fancy stonework, extra insulation and render. It had its first firing on the 4th July, basically to dry it out and see how well a fire would burn and heat it. Just so we cooked *something*, I mixed up some scone dough and stirred in a handful of dried raisins.

Modern scones are quite inauthentic as baking powder was Not A Thing in the early medieval days. Breads would be unleavened, or raised with yeast. And they were a bit burned in places, and slightly underdone in others. But fresh out of the oven with some medlar jam, they were delicious.

The oven with its first firing!
Scones ready to go in
Scones fresh from the oven
Scone? S’gone.