Super sourdough

Next month is Sourdough September!

Since 2013 the Real Bread Campaign have spent every September encouraging people to get involved in making, buying and eating sourdough bread.

Genuine sourdough bread has only 3 ingredients – flour, water and salt – that are transformed into delicious, golden, crusty bread through using natural and wild yeasts to make the dough rise.

This means that the bread is full of natural goodness and none of the artificial additives often used to make bread keep longer and stay softer.

Making sourdough bread is a skill but it’s easy to learn. You need to be able to plan ahead and look after your sourdough starter but you’ll be rewarded by the satisfaction of creating real, delicious bread.

The Real Bread Campaign encourages people to get involved by posting photos of homemade sourdough on social media, by giving away some of your sourdough starter to friends and colleagues and by running sourdough baking workshops or events. Find out more about Sourdough September. 

We are delighted to be taking part by running an ‘Introduction to sourdough baking’ workshop on Saturday 6th September – this is a workshop where you can learn to make your own sourdough starter and then use this to bake bread and other baked goods. If you’re interested in learning about this fascinating process and starting to bake with wild yeast then book now to come along!

In the class we will be making a loaf, cake and pizza with sourdough. We’ll also make and taste sourdough fizz and discuss recipes for using any discarded starter.