Bakers delight at top honour (From Ledbury Reporter)
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Bakers delight at top honour
8:30pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News
CELEBRATING: Andrew Lamming, left, and brother Richard, right, presented with their award by Geoff McGladdery, town crier Peder Nielson and Councillor Janet Pearce-Higgins.
ONE of Bromyard’s best known businesses, Lamings bakers shop at the top of the town’s High Street, has been awarded the Bromyard Chamber of Commerce 2012 Best Bromyard Business award.
The shop at 52 High Street was opened 1959 by Cliff Laming following his posting to RAF Credenhill and has been a cornerstone of Bromyard ever since.
It is now run by Mr Laming’s sons, Richard and Andrew, who received the award from Chamber chairman Geoff McGladdery at the Chamber’s annual awards lunch.
Baking runs in the Laming family as the brothers’ maternal grandmother was a baker in Brigg, Lincolnshire, and now some of her great grandchildren also work in the business.
Mr McGladdery said: “Lamings is a good old-fashioned bakery making all their own cakes and bread using traditional methods and ingredients, so it is hardly a surprise the shop is busy six days a week. They also supply other shops and restaurants with their produce.
“In the 25 years since I moved to the area, I can never recall being the only customer in the shop, it is always busy and often has a queue stretching out on to the pavement.
“It is great that we have this wonderful shop in our town.”
bobby47 says...
1:17pm Thu 24 Jan 13
Many of you who consume the kneaded dough have no real grasp of how tortuous and mind numbingly boring being a dough kneaded is.
I started kneading dough some forty years ago. I didn't set out to knead dough or become a kneaded of dough.
No! Not at all. The last thing on my mind when I left School was to become a kneaded of dough. I wanted to become a member of the judicial system but I didn't have the Latin to do the legal arguments so instead I became an employee in a bakery kneading dough.
Ive kneaded 27million lumps of dough and in each and every case I've tried my very best to fight the overwhelming compulsion to climb into the oven with the lumps of dough and end the misery of being a kneaded of dough.
Of course many people think that working in a bakery and kneading endless lumps of dough is an exciting life. One which presents the dough kneaded with endless opportunities to travel and meet fascinating people.
You'd actually be entirely wrong. If ever you want to never travel, never meet any interesting people and sweat then kneading dough is the job for you.
My life as a kneaded of the substance commonly known as dough has been an entire waste of my time and yours and I can honestly say that my tenure as a kneader of dough has been unblemished by any form of achievement.
As for this good news story that relates to the bakery trade, I commend it as a tribute to all my fellow kneaders of dough who died after becoming bored and ended their daily misery of kneading by climbing into the fiery ovens that produce bread and pastry cakes.