A Christmas Toast: Exciting Ideas for Using Your Bread this Christmas
With Christmas fast approaching, our bread deliveries are the perfect artisan accompaniment to a luxury Christmas weekend.
We thought we would put together what we would do with a delivery of our most popular product, the Artisan Bread and Buns pack, over the festive period. The pack contains 3 hand-shaped cinnamon buns, one sourdough baguette, and one artisan sourdough loaf.
We’re offering a special Christmas delivery date on Wednesday 23rd December, so this would be a perfect opportunity to get your Christmas supply of bread and buns delivered straight to your door! To make sure your delivery arrives on the correct date, please specify in a note when ordering.
Here’s our guide to a perfect Christmas featuring the Breadwinners bread and buns pack:
Setting the scene: the Christmas Eve cheeseboard
Get yourself in the festive spirit on Christmas Eve with a decadent cheeseboard paired with your sliced sourdough baguette. Here’s a top tip: sprinkle the baguette with a tiny bit of water and pop it in the oven for 10 minutes to heat up without drying out. Slice it into rounds and pair with three cheeses (something hard, something soft and something blue), a nice chutney and a few grapes for the ultimate festive spread.
If you fancy trying some artisan and local cheeses for your board, why not pop down and check out the sellers at the special Christmas market at Primrose Hill on 23rd December?
A Christmas morning treat: Cinnamon bun French toast
Whether you’re 8 or 80, you deserve something special, sweet and exciting on Christmas morning. An unconventional (but spectacular) use of the cinnamon buns in your Breadwinners delivery is to coat them in an egg mixture and fry them in butter to make cinnamon bun french toast, as in this recipe from Scandi Kitchen!
If you’re not feeling quite that extravagant, the buns obviously still taste wonderful if warmed slightly in the oven, accompanying a nice cup of coffee. If you want to be a little more adventurous, or are feeding a crowd, why not try our new Christmas buns, as well? [The Christmas Buns were only available for a limited time during Christmas 2020.]
Keep any ends and leftover for: Posh sourdough stuffing
Using a little of your sourdough loaf plus the ends of the baguette (even better if you have saved any hard ends throughout the year - just chuck them in a bag in the freezer), you can make the best Christmas stuffing ever! Sourdough’s chewier, denser texture and tangy taste makes a unique and tasty stuffing to pair with your Christmas roast. We recommend this extra-special sourdough, apple and sausage stuffing from BBC Good Food.
Save the sourdough loaf for: a big Boxing Day sandwich!
Your artisan sourdough loaf is best kept for the big finale: that piled-high Boxing Day sandwich! Cut thick slices of your sourdough loaf and pile with turkey, ham, stuffing, sliced pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce and even sprouts!
Not enough? Add a middle slice of bread soaked in gravy, a lá Ross-from-Friends!