Bermaline Bread

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Bermaline Bread
Bermaline Bread
Year: 1935
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Item #: 253
There is no better bread. The need of a loaf which has the advantages of white and brown bread is fully met in 'Bermaline.' Its delicious flavour and easy digestibility attracts every appetite. Start eating 'Bermaline' to-day.
Source: Weekly Illustrated. May 4, 1935.

Comment by: John C Riches on 10th March 2024 at 16:49

My father and grandfather use to make this in our Leeds, Harehills Lane, Bakery

Comment by: Roderick Cronin on 12th January 2024 at 08:24

We used to eat this wonderful bread in the 60's ut here in West Australia, but over the years it has disappeared which is very sad as it was highly nutritious and was wonderful spread with butter, apricot jam and a slim of ell matured Cheddar cheese.

Comment by: Steve Maxwell on 25th June 2022 at 08:10

Two of us have just metal detected 11 thimbles advertising the bread in a Norfolk field

Comment by: Steve Maxwell on 28th May 2022 at 19:53

Two of us have just metal detected 11 thimbles advertising the bread in a Norfolk field

Comment by: rhona on 30th April 2022 at 08:24

I have a sewing thimble:the words inscribed on the thimble are:EAT BERMALINE BREAD

Comment by: Malcolm R Scott on 1st July 2018 at 18:55

I used to be the Sales Rep for Bermaline Bread back in the late 2950,so covered Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Durham.Company was bought out by a Conglomerate and that,she whenI left

Comment by: Stephanie Joyson on 14th February 2018 at 18:52

My grandad used to make bermaline bread at a mill in Haddington in Scotland

Comment by: Irene Isherwood on 10th August 2016 at 01:54

As a child Mum bought a loaf of Bermaline ocaisonally from Burton's Bakery at the corner of Albert Road, opposite Central Station, Blackpool. I loved the distinctive shape and malty flavour. I now replicate the nutty richness by using rye and wholemeal at home,
Is it still made in the UK?

Comment by: Jonathan Purssell on 6th June 2016 at 00:42

I well remember my Mum buying it from 'The Tudor Cafe' in Sevenoaks in the mid to late 60's. Used to love the flavour and did manage to find the flour when the cafe shut down but all a long time ago now, sad to say.

Comment by: Tony Wilson on 11th October 2015 at 13:07

This really was my favourite bread ! Where can it be purchased now ?

Comment by: Roger Sayer on 7th July 2015 at 19:14

When I was a kid growing up in Stratford-on-Avon in the 50s, I used to love Bermaline Bread

Comment by: Candy Scott on 29th May 2015 at 17:38

I had never heard of Bermaline bread but recently brought a thimble advertising it. It looks good!

Comment by: Joan Northam on 24th January 2015 at 12:42

In the 1950s, when the baker still came to the house with a basket full of his various loaves, Bermaline was one of my favourites. My mother bought it from time to time, and I loved the taste and the texture. I don't suppose it's available anywhere now - there are few people who have ever heard of it. The comment below about its lack of popular appeal suggests the reason it was discontinued, though I don't know when that was.

Comment by: Norman Goodman on 5th January 2015 at 14:31

My father was a baker in Exmouth, Devon, from 1935 to the 1960's. From about the age of 10 to 16 I used to help him in his bakery as well as being the delivery boy! My younger brother also did his bit. I remember he baked BERMALINE. I have a strong memory of it for its very distinctive shape and the embossed name on the side. It was sold with a little paper band around it. Did its invention have anything to do with providing a tastier alternative to the "national Loaf" of 2nd World War time? It was a wholemeal loaf and was not at all popular. I don't remember Bermaline still being baked by Dad by the mid-to-late 1950's.

Comment by: william gordon on 9th November 2013 at 14:24

sounds good, looks good, but how do I get the recipe.also soldier cake,can you help please.