Windmills and takeaway cake

On this week’s programme I find out about an alternative takeaway company in Lincoln called Crunchie Munchies. I also have a tour of the Ellis Mill to see how flour is made.

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Crunchie Munchies

A Crunchie Munchies leaflet | Photo: Charlotte ReidI have been presenting Food for Thought for almost a year and every week I have managed to find a different person to chat to about the food that Lincoln has to offer. I think one of the reasons why there are new people to chat is students leaving either of the universities in the city and coming up with creative business ideas.

This is certainly the case with Crunchie Munchies, set up by graduates from Bishop Grosseteste. Stephanie Milner, one of the co-directors of the alternative takeaway company, came to the Siren studios to tell me more.

Crunchie Munchies sells cakes, sweets and treats with the profits going to community projects. Stephanie studied drama at university and also works as a drama facilitator. She says she took up baking as a way to fund drama projects: “The drama work is something that is definitely needed round the community but its very expensive so we were trying to find a way to sustain it for ourselves and make it more affordable for lots of different people throughout the local community.”

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Ellis Mill

I have lived in Lincoln a while and regularly see the Ellis Mill on the horizon. Yet I only made a point of visiting it last weekend.

Windmills were used to make flour, until it was realised that machines could do it more efficiently. The Ellis Mill was closed down in the 1940s but was reopened as a working mill in 1981. I was given a tour by the chairman of the Ellis Mill volunteers, Barry Brooke, who demonstrated how the mill works which you can listen to below.

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