Stroud bread goes to Germany (From Stroud News and Journal)

Stroud bread goes to Germany

A STROUD loaf will be winging its way to Germany this week to join the exhibits at the Ebergotzen Bread Museum.

Europe's largest museum devoted to baking happens to be just down the road of Stroud's twin town Duderstadt and this year the loaf from Stroud's Sunshine health food shop will be helping to build links between the two communities.

Green mayor John Marjoram is one of the 30 visitors who will be off to Landkreis Gottingen from the Stroud district on Thursday to share ideas on everything from education to entertainment.

He will be taking with him the loaf which was baked the same way as the bread which first came out of the Whiteway Colony in the 19th century.

Ray Hill, proprietor of Sunshine, said bread came out of Whiteway's oven every day from 1898 up until 1989 when a fire ruined the bakery.

Though production has transferred to a bakery under the British School in Slad Road, the recipes remain the same.

Mr Hill had no fears about the loaf going off before it takes its place in the celebration of culinary history at the German museum.

He said: "I gather in the past Whiteway sent bread to Borneo and it was perfectly alright when it got there."