Introduction to Sourdough Bread

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Ready to bake your own bread at home? Join us for the Introduction to Sourdough Bread workshop! We will provide lessons on maintaining a sourdough starter, mixing, shaping, scoring and baking a bread recipe. This course relies primarily on demonstrations with brief hands-on elements to teach basic principles. Students will, however, be able to use their senses (touch, smell, taste, sight) throughout the lesson.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Designed for beginner and intermediate bakers, this class will dive into the world of fermentation, grain, and milling to help you better understand both the basic science and the hands-on technique for crafting your own loaf of bread.

Students will score their own loaves of bread that we will bake together in class, and Betsy and Brennan will lead demonstrations on feeding starter, mixing dough, and shaping bread.

Participants will take home a jar of starter, a loaf of bread, a proofing basket, a comprehensive guide to making bread at home, and 1lb. of locally-milled flour. Light snacks will be provided and there will be ample time to answer questions.

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Our class discussions

  • Starters: overview of creating and maintaining sourdough starters

  • Fermentation: demystifying the various stages of fermentation and understanding how it can play a role in flavoring and enhancing bread

  • Regional, stone ground and freshly-milled flours: learning the role of various types of flour in bread-making; how to maximize flour’s flavor; how to source regional grains, and baking with freshly-milled flours

  • Baking techniques: exploring the fundamental basics of proper mixing, shaping and baking by utilizing your senses 

  • Equipment: creating your bread baking toolkit to replicate the provided recipes at home

  • History and modernization: discover what sourdough baking looked in older times and how it has been modernized and re-popularized today.

Tickets can be purchases through our store. Please refer to our policy page for our workshop terms and conditions. Our workshops are nonrefundable.