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Change your bread, change your life. Discover how sourdough helps make bread more nutritious and why it is easier to digest, as you learn to bake eat and share extraordinary bread to support both mental and physical health.
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You will learn to make incredible bread, and learn how baking is a radical act of self-care that can help change the world.

Research shows that the food you eat everyday impacts the way you feel. We believe that our basic food should help not harm health.

  • New Live Q&A Session with our in-house team of health professionals

    New Live Q&A Session with our in-house team of health professionals

  • Spicy Squash & Lentil Soup by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

    Spicy Squash & Lentil Soup by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

  • Task – Find and use seaweed in your next sourdough bake

    Task – Find and use seaweed in your next sourdough bake

  • Master recipe: 20% Wholemeal Classic Sourdough Boule – Ambient

    Master recipe: 20% Wholemeal Classic Sourdough Boule – Ambient

  • Master recipe: 20% Wholemeal Classic Sourdough Boule - Retarded - Mid Hydration

    Master recipe: 20% Wholemeal Classic Sourdough Boule - Retarded - Mid Hydration

“I’m not going to change the world, you are, beginning with nourishing yourself.” Vanessa Kimbell.

2023 Tasks & Sourdough Club Baking Planner

2023 Tasks & Sourdough Club Baking Planner

  I love teaching, but one of the things I also love is seeing people progress. It is fine to just bake each week, but sometimes a little planning goes a long way to making you feel positive.  I find this especially helpful when I sit for a moment and wonder what I have done with my

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Cauliflower & Chickpea Soup

Cauliflower & Chickpea Soup

Every day at the School I make sure we all have lunch together and each day I make something different so that our food is as diverse as possible. I make a lot of different fresh soups which we all love and here is one, a Cauliflower and Chickpea Soup, that we all enjoyed... I would recommend

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Malted Sourdough Fig Rolls

Malted Sourdough Fig Rolls

These sweet and sticky malted sourdough fig rolls are a great way to celebrate the arrival of beautiful fresh figs in late summer. Here at the School, we love to pair them with a salty, savoury British goat's cheese, drizzled in honey. Figs have long been a part of a Mediterranean diet and are a

Master recipe: 20% Wholemeal Classic Sourdough Boule – Retarded – Mid Hydration

Master recipe: 20% Wholemeal Classic Sourdough Boule – Retarded – Mid Hydration

New Live Q&A Session with our in-house team of health professionals

New Live Q&A Session with our in-house team of health professionals

  Club Members please log into your account first to access this page. Our first Monday Live Session is Monday 16th January. We look forward to you joining us. Club Members you can view details of all of your Live Sessions here. If you are not yet a Club member but would like to ask

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Principle No 5 The Potential Benefits of Fermentation Overview

Principle No 5 The Potential Benefits of Fermentation Overview



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WHITE SOURDOUGH STARTER KIT & COURSE This is our WHITE SOURDOUGH STARTER KIT & COURSE 

This is our fresh White Starter, with sweet yogurt-like flavours – our original sourdough starter.

"My French white starter is one that I have been using since I was 11 year old and originates in the bakery I grew up baking with in France. It takes a bit longer to reach its peak and is generally slower and sweeter, and much more forgiving of being neglected for a week, so is the one I recommend for beginners.

I have verbal confirmation that the starter originated over 115 years ago and has been maintained ever since…it’s a lovely story. Although the microbes double every 20 – 30 minutes when they are refreshed…so it is either over a century old or 30 minutes old depending on how you want look at it." - @vanessakimbell, founder of The Sourdough School and Club

Learn more about our white sourdough start and course by follow the link in the bio to our shop 👆

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BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE The BALM (baking as BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

The BALM (baking as Lifestyle Medicine) Protocol underpins everything we do at the Sourdough School and Club.

It is a holistic approach to baking as preventative health. It is an approach that uses evidence-based behavioural interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease. 

On our courses, students study our 7 core principles that underpin BALM and how about baking and eating healthy bread can support your gut Microbiome. How they can incorporate these principles into their sourdough baking to nourish their gut microbiome.

Learn more about baking as lifestyle medicine over on the @sourdoughschool or by following the link in the bio 👆

#lifestylemedicine #health #functionalmedicine #nutrition #integrativemedicine #healthylifestyle #wellness #lifestyle #rcgp #dietitian #nutritionist #healthcareprofessional #holistichealth #healthyliving #plantbased #guthealth #naturopathicmedicine #selfcare #functionalnutrition  #naturopathicdoctor #foodasmedicine #foodismedicine #lifestylegoals #cpd #lifestylechange #mentalhealth #sourdough #sourdoughschool #bakeforhealth
🌾 WHAT ARE BOTANICAL BLENDS? 🌸 The idea of 🌾 WHAT ARE BOTANICAL BLENDS? 🌸

The idea of Botanical Blend Flours was created by @vanessakimbell  of the @sourdoughschool as part of her innovative approach to baking sourdough bread to nourish the gut. 

Botanical Blends are milled from a diversity of grains, pulses and botanical ingredients like flowers, herbs and spices. The diversity of the flour promotes gut health and supports agroecological farming methods. 

Learn about making and milling your own botanical blends in Vanessa's book Sweet Sourdough or buy botanical blend flour from our shop 👆

#botanicalblends #diversityblend #sourdoughclub #bread #crumbshot #opencrumb #wholegrain #bakingtips #sourdoughtips #sourdoughadvice #sourdoughhelp #sourdough #learnsourdough #sourdoughbread #wholegrainsourdough #wholemealsourdough #sourdoughloaf #sourdoughbaking #sourdoughbread #sourdoughcrumb #wholegrainflour #bakingwithwholegrain #sourdoughlove
FLOUR IS NOT JUST FLOUR… When I’m choosing fl FLOUR IS NOT JUST FLOUR…

When I’m choosing flour, I look at the type of milling method used, because this makes a huge difference to your bread. 

When wheat is turned into flour, the grain is crushed, milled and then sifted to remove the germs and the fibrous outer layer, which is how we get lighter, whiter flour. 

Traditionally, flour would be stoneground, but the modern milling process uses steel rollers. These rollers are very efficient at separating out the component parts of the grain, but they also get hot, which can partly kill off the wild yeasts and lactic acid bacteria that might be present in the flour.

Lear more about flour, baking and sourdough by joining The Sourdough Club today 👆

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IS IT A YOGA MOVE? WHY DO I NEED TO STRETCH & FOLD IS IT A YOGA MOVE? WHY DO I NEED TO STRETCH & FOLD?

In sourdough, gluten doesn’t need developing by kneading. Trust me, you will get a better rise and lighter loaf by using the long, slow fermentation to align the gluten molecules instead of kneading. 

Simply leaving the dough to ferment with just a few stretches and folds to help will result in a gluten structure that gives the bread the complex network of sticky strands that capture the CO2 as the yeasts get to work consuming the sugars in the flour.

Follow the link in the bio to join The Sourdough Club today and learn more about making incredible sourdough bread 👆

#sourdough #sourdoughclub #bread #sourdoughlove #sourdoughlover #naturalleavened #leavening #levain #realbread #breadmaking #bakebread #makebread #makerealbread #learntobakebread #breadmakingclass #sourdoughstories #bakingforlove #bakingtherapy #sourdoughbaking
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