Bread Making
Real Bread Maker Week £110 (members) £130 (non memebers)
7th - 13th May 2012
This course is for the Real Bread Campaigns Bread Maker Week, where all aspects of bread making are being celebrated, we are running a couple of courses which will be covering a mix of Basic and Speciality Breads in one day, we will cover flours, yeasts, mixing, kneading, shaping, slashing of your dough and the baking process.
Basic Bread £130
This course covers the basics of bread-making whether you are a complete novice or for the baker who is looking for a refresher course to boost your confidence, the day will cover various mixing and kneading techniques of the dough, shaping of the loaves and the baking of said loaves. Breads on the day may include a white loaf then more exciting ingredients and you can choose from many varieties of flours, such as wholemeal, Khorason, malt or rye. We may also make an enriched loaf, such as a Bara Brithe loaf.
We may even have time to make rolls and baguettes - it's up to you!
Speciality Bread £130
This course covers more advanced techniques of shaping and you will make (and take home) a variety of Baguettes, Rye, Caraway and Raisin batard, Treacle and Guiness Loaf, Fougasse and Focaccia.
(For those with a gluten intolerance, I can adapt a speciality bread and baking class just for you, please call me on 01290 660045 for more information)
Enriched Breads £130
Learn to make wonderfully rich breads such as Brioche, Croissants and Pain Viennois, learn how the process of lamention creates super light breads.
This course is designed for bakers with a little bread making experience.
We also do a two day course to cover basic, then enriched. Call 01290 660045 for more information and dates.
Sourdough Bread £130
Make your first Sourdough Starter (levain, poolish) batter mix.
Sourdough is the name for bread raised only with wild yeasts, the process is one of a long fermentation which helps the bread to have a lovely depth of flavour and it also makes for a more digestible bread.
I will show you how to do the different stages of your starter for you to take home. Then we will make some sourdough bread using my starter, as your starter mix takes a minimum of a week before you can make your own at home, full instructions will be given away with you to help you with feeding your starter and the basic of making another.
Speciality Sourdough £130
This course is for lovers of the King of all breads, the Sourdough loaf!, we are going to work with a wet poolish and also a drier levain to make a variety of tasty unusual Sourdough loaves, we will go through the kneading and shaping process.
This course is for those who have a little experience of bread making or for those who have previously done the Sourdough course, we will be making a Cranberry and Pecan Sourdough, Prune and Cardamon Sourdough and also a Rye, Raisin and Caraway Sourdough and if time permits a bitter Chocolate Sourdough, which is utterly delicious.
French Bread £130
This course covers a multitude of French Breads. It is for people who have a little experience of bread, we will cover the kneading and shaping of different French Breads, we will be making Baguettes, Pain de Campagne (similar in nature to a sourdough bread), Flavoured Fougasse (a sharing bread), Epi and a Pain de Mie (a milk bread). We will also be looking at the different variety of flours that French bakers use.
Italian Bread £130
In this course you will make a few of the delicious Italian Breads that have become so familiar to us - Focaccia, Ciabatta, Stromboli plus others such as Pane Di Ramerino and Grissini. You will need a little experience, although the basics of kneading and shaping will also be covered in this course.
Northern European Bread £130
For those with a love of a more healthy, heavier grain, we will be choosing a variety of breads to make from Scandinavia, Germany and beyond. For example, sweet rye bread, maize bread, sunflower bread, linseed and wheat bread and pumpernickel bread.
You will need a little experience, although the basics of kneading and shaping will be covered in this course.
3 Day Bread Course £350
In this course we will have an introduction to Basic Bread making along with a day on Speciality Breads, then we will have a day working on some European and Enriched Breads to round our 3 day course off, we will cover kneading, shaping and slashing of our Breads. Tea/Coffee or light refreshments, Cakes and Lunch are provided each day with your course, all materials and ingredients are also provided.
This course is for all skill levels.
5 Day Bread Course £600
In this course we will have an introduction to Basic Bread making, we will then work on Speciality, French, Italian, Northern European, Sourdough and Enriched Breads. This Course is very in depth and will cover all aspects of Slowdoughs, we will cover a variety of kneading and shaping methods of our dough. Tea/Coffee or light refreshments, Cakes and Lunch are provided each day with your course, all materials and ingredients are also provided.
This course is for all skill levels.
Baking
Basic Baking £130
Learn the basic techniques of baking.This Course usually runs from 10.30am till 3.30pm and will include a light snack at lunchtime.
This course covers the basic skills required to make perfect sponge cakes, fruit loaves and biscuits that work every time! You will take home a real variety of goodies including a strawberry cream sponge, cupcakes, lavender shortbread, yogurt loaf and white chocolate/peanut butter blondies.
There are a variety of sweet goodies that we can make on your baking day.
All courses have recipes supplied for you to take home and try again and again and anytime you get stuck I can be contacted for follow up help.
I'm happy to discuss and consider bespoke courses as you wish, and of course, we do gift vouchers (either for a full course, a series of courses, or even as partial payment for a course). Please call me to book a course or discuss your requirements. You can contact me by phone on 01290 660045 or e-mail
