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If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so the proof of the flour is in the baking (as well as the eating). A few miles up the road is the Ivy House Tea Rooms. It’s at one end of Montgomery’s town square.

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All the best restaurants make their own bread. But it is a difficult art to perfect. If you have tried to bake bread yourself you may have felt a bit disheartened by the result. After a strenuous amount of kneading dough and leaving it to rise in a warm place into a deceptively large mass, it may still come out of the oven, not quite like a brick, but not as aerated as you would have hoped.

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Organic flours produced by Bacheldre Watermill of Churchstoke went on sale in one of Russia’s flag-ship stores in time for Easter.

Already used by many of the UK’s top chefs and restaurants, the artisan flours made by award winning Powys millers Matt and Anne Scott at their ancient mill will soon be available in Moscow through Globus Gormet.

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One highlight of the Christmas TV schedules is the brand new Aardman Animations adventure of plasticene pair Wallace and Gromit in ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’.

And now everyone can follow Wallace and Gromit’s baking bonanza with a range of limited Wallace and Gromit stoneground organic flour produced at Churchstoke.

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Anne and Matt Scott started their careers delivering the post, but now run a business producing award winning organic flour from a watermill in rural Wales.

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The entrepreneurial life is turning out well for Matt and Anne Scott whose organic flour-milling business is fast becoming the toast of British breadmakers. The couple who have two young children, swapped safe staff jobs for uncertainty and dreams in the shape of a 500-acre plot in rural Wales with an 18th century watermill.

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You may have spotted Bacheldre Mill’s name and distinctive black bags on Wallace and Gromit’s latest TV whodunit, A Matter of Loaf and Death. The flour is the handiwork of Matt and Anne Scott, former Royal Mail employees, who swapped mailsacks for flour sacks in 2002.

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Is it the people or is it the products that make the small producers sector so appealing? Arguably, it’s a combination of the two. It’s why Graham Cassie suggests Bacheldre Watermill as the ideal subject for an article.

It’s also why when I let Robbie James who will shortly become Buyer, local and regional know where I’m going her first response is: “Lucky you!” She’s dead right: lucky me, indeed.

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The 12 lucky winners of our Great Bake competition enjoyed a fabulous baking session with Wallace & Gromit at The Cookery School at Bordeaux Quay.

As part of the competition we were asking what products we should introduce into our Baking Kits, Gingerbread Gromits came out a clear winner!