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February 2021

Hello <<First Name>> 

With all the colder weather recently, sourdough starters became much more sluggish. I found adding water at 25C made all the difference. Do try it if yours is malingering a bit. 

It's Real Bread Week from 20 February. This year mostly the activities will be online, although of course you can still purchase great bread from your local bakery. Read on to be inspired. 

I am doing a series of posts on Instagram Reels showing how to make a sourdough starter. 

In this newsletter:

Real Bread Week

It’s Real Bread Week -
20th to 28th February! 

Everyone is invited to bake to the future. 

2020 saw the popularity of Real Bread making, buying and even microbakery startups surge. Bonds between bakers and their neighbours have been strengthened, and the place of independent bakeries at the hearts of their local communities is being reinforced.  Meanwhile in crowded and lonely homes alike, people are benefitting from the therapeutic nature – and sheer enjoyment – of making Real Bread. 

This sets the stage for Real Bread Week (20 to 28 February) the annual, international celebration of delicious, nutritious, additive-free loaves, and the people behind their rise to be the biggest yet. 

What is Real Bread Week? 

Created and run since 2010 by the Real Bread Campaign, Real Bread Week’s main aims are to encourage and help people around the globe to:

Real Bread Campaign coordinator Chris Young said: “We’re working towards a future in which everyone has the chance to choose Real Bread, whether skilfully crafted by a local baker or lovingly made at home.” 

I particularly like: 

Scotland The Bread: Inviting people to buy Solidarity Bags of heritage wheat flour, which will be sent to bakeries and community organisations to distribute to local people to bake with or already crafted into Real Bread.  

Learn to make Indian Flatbreads on 24 February

Toast Ales work with local bakeries and breweries to make beer from bread that would otherwise go to waste. Coming up in March, Wiper and True based in Bristol will be releasing an Amber Ale made with Hobbs House surplus bread.

Hot Cross Bun Demo

Hot Cross Bun Demo 16 March 10:30 am for GFWI


Come and join me and learn how to make delicious Hot Cross Buns just in time for Easter.

Sit back and enjoy the demonstration and follow the recipe provided. All the stages of making hot cross buns will be shown. The actual process will take you longer than an hour of course.
Book online 

If you'd like to make Hot Cross Buns online with me, the cost is £45. Allow for 3 x half hour sessions. Let me know if you'd like to book. Ideal for one, two or parent and child session. Times and dates to suit you. 

Time for a #wearerealbread selfie?

If you're posting your bread on social media, use the hashtag #wearerealbread There are so many of you out there that have made amazing bread during classes with me.

I'd love to see your photos holding your bread or if you're shy the bread itself. Just mention @breadbakerdani on Twitter or Instagram or Severnbites on Facebook. If you prefer, email me your photos and I'll make a grid of them to share. 
Japanese Milk Bread

Japanese Milk Bread

Do you yearn for some really good soft white bread for sandwiches? Japanese Milk Bread is the bread to try.

There are two different methods in my blog post. For each, a portion of the flour is cooked then added to the dough. Choose from my recipes for Yudane or Tangzhong methods
Silver salt sellar

How much salt should we use?


Too much salt isn't good for you, but some salt is important. If you've ever left the salt out when making bread, you'll know just how difficult it is to work with. 

Discover more about salt. The latest in my series on Baking Better Bread. 
Snipping Buns

Online Sessions

I've been recently helping two farm shops with baking bread in the Rofco oven and teaching sourdough and yeasted bread skills. 
 
Online one to one sessions are available at a date and time to suit you: £15 per half hour tuition online. We have an initial chat about what you'd like to work on, then set the number of sessions - usually 2 or 3 online. Sessions are staggered to allow the bread to prove! 

One to one online baking sessions 

One to one online sourdough 

Rofco Oven introduction

If there are two of you, an online session is of course possible!

In person classes

I'll let you know as soon as these are possible. At this rate, we'll be bak to baking bread in the garden!
Book now
Slow Rise - Robert Penn

The Long Read

Slow Rise by Robert Penn 

Publication date 25.2.21

Robert Penn sets out to grow some heritage wheat in Wales so he can bake his own bread from his own grain. This book is not just that simple story, but the story of wheat and milling. He travels to Turkey, Egypt and the USA on his journey and meets people growing and harvesting wheat in the same way as hundreds of years ago, to harvesting the vast wheat fields in America. Buy the book. 

This is not a quick read, but a fascinating one. It will be Book of the Week on BBC Sounds in early March which you can listen to wherever you are. 
To see the sourdough starter instructions, click below to see the posts on Instagram. 

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A post on Japanese Milk Bread is coming very soon. Don't miss it!
 
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Thank you for reading this edition of the Severn Bites Newsletter. I hope you enjoyed it. Please pass it on. 

Happy Baking!
Danielle
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