Taming the Wild Yeasts ~ Make your own Sourdough Bread

This course will introduce you to the art of bread making without added yeasts (though we might add some yeast for the purpose of reducing the rising time to be able to bake our bread on the course).

• learn about the benefits of Sourdough Bread
• make your own sourdough starter to take home
•  work with a sourdough starter and learn all the steps to turn a starter into a delicious loaf of traditional German Sourdough Bread
• learn two different techniques (knead and no knead technique) on how to work with sourdough
• get an idea and watch how to make a gluten free starter and understand how to work with it (we will not go into the details of baking gluten free breads)
• bake together and sample a loaf of bread
• find out what you can do with your surplus sourdough as an alternative to dispatching it. Try out two recipes – a savoury and a sweet recipe – using the sourdough that would usually be discarded and sample them for lunch!
• go home with lots of handouts full of the knowledge that will help you to practise at home what you learnt at the course!

Please get in contact beforehand if you have any special dietary requirements.

Your tutor, Peggy, runs the local business Eldertree, specialising in fermented and whole foods.

Please bring a mixing bowl, a big jar to take your sourdough starter home in, a 1Ib/450g bread tin for cooking, plus an apron if you like. All other ingredients will be provided.

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