Bake it at Home: Tasty Home Delivery Companies – I’m going to let you in on a secret: I’ve discovered a way to obtain the most amazing sourdough bread and also some great tasting sourdough pizzas and pizza dough. These are from two different companies at opposite ends of the UK, but they are both delivering superb products, made with ‘proper’ ingredients, direct to our door. Good sourdough bread is a labour of love and the sourdough cognoscenti have tended either to bake it themselves, or they choose their bakeries very carefully. These will be bakeries that make a good sourdough, ones with natural ingredients and none of those ‘nasties’ that often sneak into some of the bigger brands.
That’s where The Bread Queen comes in: you can now have partially baked sourdough loaves delivered to your home. These loaves just need finishing in your oven, or you can pop them into the freezer to bake off when needed. Each loaf is baked almost to perfection, then wrapped up and despatched. More information about how the bakery works can be found here. Recently launched, The Bread Queen is in fact part of a well-established business that’s been supplying top hotels and institutions like the Houses of Parliament for many years so you can be assured of the quality.
Sourdough is better for you – it’s more easily digested and less likely to cause gluten intolerance – you can read Bread Queen founder Birgit’s notes on this here. Of course, real sourdough takes several days to make, so your order will need some time before it gets shipped to you. Every order is baked to order – the bakery doesn’t keep stock. There are specific processing days and shipping days (more info on the website). Many people are choosing to take out a subscription as it saves money and also takes the hassle out of shopping. There’s free shipping on your first order over £25 with the newsletter sign up, and you can always share an order with neighbours – a great way of trying out the quality of the bread.
And now to the sourdough pizzas: A YouGov poll revealed that 65 percent of us prefer staying in at this time of year. And understandably, many of us are keen to forgo the expense and inconsistency of restaurant deliveries but won’t settle for soggy crusts or bland sauces. Help is at hand: East Pizzas has now arranged for us to be able to enjoy really delicious top-class sourdough pizzas from its Edinburgh restaurant. The restaurant has launched a home delivery system for its 72-hour-proved range of sourdough pizza bases, dough balls and a topped pre-made range of pizzas. Made with just three simple ingredients – flour, water and salt – a light and flavour-packed foundation for any homemade pizza, the bases are ‘blank canvases’ ready-to-top, and dough balls are ready to stretch and shape.
The pre-made pizzas come in ten flavour options all topped with high-quality ingredients.
Vegan options are also available. These pizzas are a generous size too and seriously good. The website eastpizzas.com also has helpful tutorial videos for making your own pizzas. There’s free UK delivery too, for orders over £25.
All these sourdough products (bread and pizzas) stay fresh for up to three or four days in the fridge or three months in the freezer, so you can always have quality sourdough loaves, pizza bases, dough balls or ready-made pizzas to hand.
The Seasoned Gastronome