>>444610 Ok, why would you post this here and not /nom/? Are we /b/read now? All the years I championed /toast/ and purple stabs me in the back like this?!
I think you've got to at least put some sultanas in for that to count, and it's only the softest, almost brioche level bread you can make them out of. You cut them in half and butter the inside so it's like a slightly more decadent hot cross bun.
The humble iced finger is unfairly malaigned because of the usual British snobbery and classism. If this was Italy people from the world over would be saying how you only get a good iced finger if you go to authentic bakeries in Doncaster, where the bakers have spent years perfecting the dough, and that it's the deceptive simplicity which makes a good iced finger such a challenge for inexperienced bakers to master.
I'm clearly an old codger, because I quite like an iced finger. It's still recognisably sweet, but not excessively so. "Plain but satisfying" is a quintessential and under-appreciated principle of British food.
>>444626 It's got to be a soft finger. I find a lot of bakeries tend to have the bread a little too hard and stale for my liking, almost as bad as iced gems.
I've been thinking about it and I've decided that petit pains, especially the ones you finish baking at home, are a far better receptacle for sausages than hot dog rolls.
