A cottage loaf is made of two balls of dough, one on top of the other, to form a figure-of-eight shape.
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Elizabeth David, who described the cottage loaf in her " English Bread and Yeast Cookery ", surmised that the shape may have arisen as a way of saving'floor space'in old-fashioned bread ovens.
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The money is laughable : a first prize for a cow netted 15 pounds ( dlrs ) and a first for a cottage loaf of home-baked bread won 3 pounds ( dlrs ).
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A cottage loaf is characterised by its shape, which is essentially that of two round loaves, one on top of the other, with the upper one being rather smaller : the shape is similar to that of the French brioche and the " pain chapeau " of Finist�re.