Chorleywood bread process The process had an important impact in the United Kingdom where, at the time, few domestic wheat varieties were of sufficient quality to make high quality bread products; the process therefore permitted a much greater proportion of lower-protein domestic wheat to be used in the grist. The Chorleywood bread process allows the use of lower-protein wheats and reduces processing time, the system being able to produce a loaf of bread from flour to sliced and packaged form in about three-and-a-half hours. This is achieved through the addition of Vitamin C, fat, yeast, and intense mechanical working by high-speed mixers. The
Chorleywood Chorleywood, Rickmansworth and nearby towns in southern Buckinghamshire, having lived and married in Chorleywood. Chorleywood House, a Regency mansion, was built in 1822 by John Barnes, replacing an earlier house. John Saunders Gilliat, the Governor of the Bank of England in 1883-1885, lived in it. In 1892, the house was bought by Lady Ela Sackville Russell, eldest daughter of the 9th Duke of Bedford. She modified and enlarged the house, turning the grounds into a model estate with market gardens. The population was 1,500 in 1897; two years later the railway was extended to Chorleywood on 8 July 1889. When