I might never have heard of Long Crendon Bakery except that, by happy coincidence, it's half way between where my son lives and where we live. It's just 6 miles from Junction 7, on the M40 and so we always try and make a break here when coming home to get amazing bread and other nice things.
Arriving here, it's like stepping back in time (in a good way). A sign outside the shop tells you where their supplies come from:
I got talking to Tim who makes their beautiful cider, from Dabinett apples (a classic English cider apple variety):
Tim then introduced me to the baker, who gets up at silly o'clock to make their bread using traditional methods.
I think I've now tried all their different sorts of bread, and they are all good. With sourdoughs, and bread with oats and seeds, I believe they are better for you and taste great.
If you like your tomatoes uniform, and tasteless, maybe this shop isn't for you!
I bought some really nice low sugar chocolate here.
Because I had been talking to Tim for so long, I thought that my wife had got bored and was sat in the car. I hadn't realised that she had already done a shop and had managed to more or less duplicate my bread buying!
There's also a café here, which I'm sure will be far better than the motorway services.
As we left we noticed that they do late night shopping and homemade pizzas on Thursdays.
I will definitely try and get there on a Thursday!
Long Crendon Bakery
Thame Road
Long Crendon
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP18 9FF
Tel: 01844 396221
Long Crendon
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP18 9FF
Tel: 01844 396221
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