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Issue 22: Christmas apart from your family? An Invitation to join ours: Apply for our limited discount code for 75% off ( 48 hours only)

 

Christmas Lockdown: an alternative way to gather and connect.

Please apply below for one of our limited number ( *50) discount codes for 75% off the Monthly Subscription joining fee – applications closing at 1pm GMT on the 24th December.

PLEASE NOTE THIS OFFER HAS NOW ENDED.

I’ve always believed that part of running a business is about social conscience, and never more so than last night when I read about the Level 4 lockdown and the changes to Christmas.  This discount is to help to bring some cheer during a time when the nation’s Christmas plans have been ruined, to find a way to connect to new friends all over the world, and a chance to learn something new that goes well beyond January’s new years resolutions.

Helping to connect

Learning about making sourdough is so calming and therapeutic. My focus on sourdough over the past year has been on the connection between baking and mental health, and the focus in the Sourdough Club forum is on helping to support people that really need it right now, with bread and friendship, and so that’s exactly what I’m going to do. The Club pages are a way to attend the Sourdough School virtually and hang out with me without leaving your kitchen, and yet be part of a community. In light of the current situation I feel it is only right to make this amazing resource as accessible as possible, so if you have been separated from your family this Christmas I am inviting you to join our sourdough family – I am going to give out 50 discount codes for  75% off the joining fee of our Monthly subscription, over the next 48 hours.

How much will it cost me to join?

The normal Monthly subscription option is £99 joining fee to set you up and then just £9.99 per month thereafter, however we are issuing discount codes for a 75% discount off the joining fee making it just £24.75 to join for one month and then £9.99 for each additional month – all that we then ask is that you remain a member, join the forum and follow the lessons for 3 months. 

More than just big holes

It’s more important now than ever to find a way to connect with others, especially for people who are self-isolating, are away from their family over Christmas or people who are vulnerable. Our Sourdough Club is very active online – with an interactive forum, events and conversations and encouragement  – we are a community. The Club is literally alive every day with baking, conversations on the forum, recipe discussions and the latest research, tips, regular inspiring recipes and brilliant webinars,  a new Book Club, as well as discounts for members.  You also get updates with news to be in the know before anyone else about the latest books by me, Vanessa Kimbell, and courses at the Sourdough School and I will be focusing in January on ways to bake to support the gut microbiome and immunity in practical and inexpensive ways.

There is more ..

You will not just learn to make Sourdough, but you can order (after Christmas now) a free sourdough starter to get you going, and you will discover why sourdough is the healthiest bread and find out how we apply our 7 core principles to your baking to help your digestion & benefit your overall health & well-being. There is a world of information inside the Club with core knowledge, so you learn to understand sourdough, and have a whole community of bakers to support you.

Optimal health both mentally and physically

All of my course content, research, recipes and more go onto this platform. I’ve filled it with video masterclasses and articles answering every question you could possibly have about sourdough. Beyond that, I’ve shared my passion and knowledge from studying my PhD in Bread and Digestion. There are many articles, research papers and formulae specifically focused on how sourdough and inclusions can help boost our immune system and support our gut health. Right now, this knowledge is more valuable than ever. We need to look after ourselves, our loved ones and those around us.

Limited numbers

I wish I could share all of this knowledge with everyone for free right now, but as a small business in this very challenging time, I have to ensure I am at the very least covering overheads so that I can continue. Therefore, I’m offering  75% off the joining fee for our Monthly Sourdough Club Membership just for those who truly need it right now. Please complete the form below to apply.

Please note that we have a limited number of discount codes and those who are chosen are completely at my discretion. It’s not easy for me to be able to check if everyone genuinely fits the criteria, so I can only ask that you please apply honestly. Please do not apply if you are already with your family as you will be taking a voucher from someone who is alone or separated from loved ones, and we will be reading each individual application to try and make sure that we are allocating the discounts fairly.

*Subject to the number of applications, please note this may change.

To apply, please complete the below form. To avoid disappointment, please apply at the earliest opportunity, application close in 48 hours, and we will email you by Christmas Eve to let you know if you have been successful.

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We also have at our discretion 20 x 100% free memberships to gift for bakers who are literally on the bread line.  This is solely for bakers who have been both seperatd from their family AND who have ALSO lost their income.

Please mention that you would like to be considered for the scholarship the information you send in the application below clearly and I respectfully ask that if you do ask this please make sure that you really do fit the criteria;  giving free places has a financial cost to us, as resources are needed to administer and support memberships and send starters – please do not ask if you do not need the full scholarship as you will be taking a place from someone who really does need it.

Kindest regards

Vanessa x

 

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Please ONLY apply if you have been separated from your family this Christmas. If you are well and you are lucky enough not to have not been impacted too much by the pandemic then I’d still really love you to join us and become a member –  join the Sourdough Club click here. 

Make sure to also sign up to our e-magazine here. We occasionally run other offers and we share these with our newsletter subscribers first.

Please also note that the Sourdough School also has a newsletter that goes out to our students who have attended the school. This is a totally separate newsletter often about nutrition & digestibility of bread and you can sign up for free to this one too.

 

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All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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A NEW APPROACH

👉🏻 For the past 3 years we’ve been working on something incredible … prescription sourdough bread making courses for our @sourdoughclub members 

📈We have had amazing advances in healthcare, but there is no pill to cure poor diet. The best medicine is prevention via a healthy lifestyle, and many studies have shown that people who eat healthily and exercise regularly sleep better, have less anxiety and depression, have more energy, and lower their risk of chronic illness overall.

🙌 Vanessa’s work on Bread & the Impact on the Gut Microbiome has been turned into something extraordinary. Prescription bread-making courses as a lifestyle intervention, and the Bread Protocol we teach here is designed to address the way you live, exploring behaviour related to nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep, social support and environmental exposures. These courses are 12 weeks long, and designed to maintain health and prevent disease not just in individuals bit in patients and populations, so we have 2 ways to enrol on a course: 

1️⃣ SOCIAL PRESCRIPTION 
If your doctor or healthcare practitioner is one of  our Sourdough School graduates and they feel that this bread-making prescription course is something that will improve your health, then they may can prescribe the course for you as a social prescription free.

2️⃣ SELF PRESCRIPTION 
You can self-prescribe these courses by enrolling yourself on a course to improve your health and wellbeing.

📰 If you are interested in learning more about the prescription courses then please sign up to the newsletters as we will be announcing their launch over the coming weeks and months. 

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🧘 LAST ORDERS TODAY 🧘 I’m prepping the st 🧘 LAST ORDERS TODAY 🧘

I’m prepping the starters to post out on Thursday.

I was thinking why sourdough all these years? I guess it’s because is alive… it’s a culture of wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria. We might like to think we can control it, but we can’t control everything. Things change when we bake. The flour changes, the ambient temperature changes, or something happens during the middle of the day and your baking routine changes.

We can be very critical of ourselves. Starting the day by looking in the mirror and criticising our physical appearance. Or looking at something we’ve done or said and overanalysing it. Often, without realising, some of us can be incredibly negative.
It’s the same with bread. I notice that many people are self-depreciating and, while they aspire to make beautiful loaves, they have a distinct lack of acceptance that creating a really aesthetically stunning loaves takes time. It’s an art. It takes many years to be able to understand the nuances of each flour and how each one behaves to create bread. There is no instant fix. And I wouldn’t want there to be.

If you want an instant fix, go out and buy a packet mix – that way the work is done for you. In sourdough there’s no instant fix. That is the whole point of it really. That’s why we celebrate when we do make those incredibly beautiful loaves. And what you are actually celebrating isn’t high levels of gluten or high levels of hydration. It’s that person’s ability to have understood and connected to the flour, to their environment, to the yeast, to the timings and rhythm and everything coming together to create something that is joyous to eat.

To learn more about what we do here at The Sourdough Club and the courses we teach, follow the link in the bio to read 

#mindfulbaking #sourdough #sourdoughsclub #bread #sourdoughlove #sourdoughlover #naturalleavened #leavening #realbread #breadmaking #bakebread #makebread #makerealbread #sourdoughstories #bakingforlove #bakingtherapy #sourdoughbaking
🧂 ARTISAN INGREDIENTS FOR ARTISAN BREAD 🧂 A 🧂 ARTISAN INGREDIENTS FOR ARTISAN BREAD 🧂

Artisan bread starts with artisan ingredients. Honest ingredients that have been grown and harvested with respect for both the people and the earth. The flour has to be organic, the water chlorine free and the yeast has to be sourdough, and so it follows that the salt has to be similarly harvested with principles that are in synergy with our own. Salt making was, up until the industrial revolution, an artisanal craft. Much like bread making salt is also an artisan product that has been industrialised, so we use a hand-harvested salt in our bread.
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In our shop, we sell unrefined salt specifically for sourdough - Natural salt contains all of its trace minerals and other elements that are naturally a part of its origin. Our salt is not exposed to chemicals and does not contain anti-caking agents.
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Follow the link in our bio to our shop, where you can find the best artisan ingredients for your bread! 
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#artisan #salt #iamamember #sourdoughclub #sourdough #sourdoughbread #naturallyleavened #realbread #sourdoughbaking #bakingbread #breadmaking #homebakedbread #sourdoughlove
DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN ONLINE SHOP & CAN PURCHASE DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN ONLINE SHOP & CAN PURCHASE MY WHITE SOURDOUGH STARTER?
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I have several sourdough starters but The French white starter is one that I have been using since I was 11 years old and originates in the bakery I grew up baking within France. It takes a bit longer to reach it’s peak and is generally slower and sweeter, and much more forgiving of being neglected for a week, so the one I recommend for beginners. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We have verbal confirmation that the starter originated over 115 years ago and If you swipe right in the video you can listen to me chatting to one of the older residents of the village confirming that bakery did not shut during the war either .. & it 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 to look at it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
You can purchase a pot of my starter, along with a grey moon kilner jar & a mini video course on looking after your starter. 
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Swipe right to see the amazing video of the French bakery where the starter originated from @vanessakimbell has been baking with this starter for over 20 years … and first baked almost 40 years ago with it …#romantic 
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#breadbosses #breadporn #flourwatersalt #breadtalk #bread #breadstagram #sourdough #sourdoughschool #bread #sourdoughlove #sourdoughlover #naturalleavened #leavening #levain #realbread #breadmaking #bakebread #makebread #makerealbread #learntobakebread #breadmakingclass #sourdoughstories #bakingforlove #bakingtherapy #sourdoughbaking #bannetons #bakery
🌾 BARLEY - DO AS THE ROMANS DO 🌾
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Oats & Barley. We love both, but this week we have been diving to barley with our students, learning about nutritional value, what role plays in supporting key butyrate producers for gut health and why gladiators were call 'barley-eaters'!
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And naturally, we will be talking about how we can incorporate barley into our baking and our botanical blends.
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To find out more, become a student of the Sourdough Club! 
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#grains #wheat #einkorn #emmer #spelt #heritagegrains #freshlymilledflour #milledflour #milling #freshlymilled #botanicalblend #fromscratch #unrefined #mockmillproud #mockmill
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