Bread bags

When I give people a sourdough loaf I wrap it in a (clean) teatowel. It covers the bread well enough, but gaps appear if I'm not careful. 

So I was extraordinarily pleased with myself when I remembered that the linen sheets I was given last year - and which I am gradually turning into trousers - came in linen bags. Could they be adapted to be used as bread bags, I wondered?

First though, where were they? I knew I had removed the rather lovely wooden buttons from them, but as to where I had then put the bags....

It's just as well I never found a fabric bank in town, because half way down the box of 'useless' bits of material there were the four large and two smaller linen bags. (Which just goes to show you should never chuck anything away.)

I whisked them out, gave them a wash and an iron, and the bigger ones have already been put to use today to hold the four loaves I delivered to their happy recipients.

The bags will be returned to me, with the incentive that I will refill each one in due course. Although not simultaneously again: baking was a bit nonstop this morning; and deliveries were rushed.

Bean supervised.

This evening's supper is cooking: a three cheese and spinach flan. The aroma is fantastic...roll on the "ping" of the oven.