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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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Menakao 80% Dark Chocolate Couverture 2.5kg

£45.79

This is truly ethical chocolate for cooking and baking. One of only a few chocolate makers in the world that make chocolate at the source, Madagascar-based Menakao produce a deliciously fruity range of cooking chocolate using local beans, for both home and professional bakers.

This is Menakao 80% dark chocolate cooking chocolate (couverture) buttons.

These deliciously dark 80% couverture pistoles are a little wild! A sensationally fruity chocolate that packs a little more punch than Menakao’s 63%, for those who like their flavours just a little more intense. The high citrus notes here sharpen the natural fruitiness which makes Madagascan cocoa beans so famously adored. This is perfect for a variety of uses in the kitchen.

2.5kg

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Menakao 80% Dark Cooking Chocolate 2.5kg

Menakao 80% Dark Chocolate Couverture for cooking & baking.

This is truly ethical cooking chocolate – a 2.5kg bag of 80% Dark Cooking & Baking Chocolate (couverture) buttons, for both home and professional bakers.

These deliciously dark 80% couverture pistoles are a little wild! A sensationally fruity chocolate that packs a little more punch than Menakao’s 63%, for those who like their flavours just a little more intense. The high citrus notes here sharpen the natural fruitiness which makes Madagascan cocoa beans so famously adored. This is perfect for a variety of uses in the kitchen.

Menakao 80% Dark Cooking Chocolate Couverture – citrus, fruity and dark.

This ethical cooking chocolate doesn’t just taste good, it does good. Madagascan chocolate maker Menakao proudly crafts its chocolate on the island, using only local ingredients. Unfortunately, this is rare even for craft chocolate – it’s estimated that less than 5% of the world’s chocolate is produced in the same country the cocoa is grown. By making the chocolate in Madagascar in addition to growing the cacao on the island, Menakao generate about 4-5 times the benefit of Fair Trade for the local Madagascan economy.

One of only a few chocolate makers in the world that make chocolate at the source, Madagascar-based Menakao produce a deliciously fruity range of cooking chocolate using local beans. Read more about Menakao

At the Sourdough School and the Sourdough Club we ensure that we use ethical chocolate in all our chocolate-based recipes. It is so difficult to find truly ethical cooking chocolate for home and professional use in supermarkets and high street shops, so we are delighted to include this range in our online shop. Our Sweet Sourdough recipes can be found on our Sourdough Club website.

If you aren’t already a member you can join the Sourdough Club and learn to bake sourdough with Vanessa online.

Beyond Fair Trade chocolate

Many artisan chocolate makers source their cocoa beans directly from the farmers and farmer co-operatives, cutting out the middlemen and ensuring a significantly higher price, which is more than the Fair Trade premium, for the farmer.

Why Bean-To-Bar chocolate?

Just as the way grapes are grown and nurtured is critical for the quality of great wine, the same is true for cocoa beans and chocolate. Soil conditions, climate and the care and attention of the farmers and chocolate makers all impact the final product.

The best chocolate often comes from chocolate makers who have a direct relationship with the farmers they buy from. This direct trade also cuts out middlemen and ensures higher payments to cocoa farmers in some of the world’s poorest countries.

The same care and attention to detail also characterises the makers who source these beans and create the bars or the cocoa powder. Whether they’re working out of a small kitchen or a dedicated factory, all these makers are united in the care and attention they make to creating their chocolate.

You can view the full range of Cocoa Runners cooking and baking chocolate, cocoa powder and cocoa nibs in our shop.

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Book onto our 1 Day Demo & Discussion Day on the N Book onto our 1 Day Demo & Discussion Day on the Nutrition & Digestibility of Bread - 30/06/23

This day is for GP’s, health professionals and professional bakers. 

It is a day to learn, and discover more about the principles of Baking as Lifestyle Medicine, and help understand more about the Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM) Certificate or the Prescribing BALM Diploma courses. 

👉You will get an overview of Baking As Lifestyle Medicine and Vanessa will demonstrate the principles of baking, eating and sharing nutritious baking. 
👉You will have a symbiotic lunch, and learn more about gut health and the impact bread can have on our physical and mental health. 
👉It is an immersive, interactive learning experience and you will learn more about our remarkable team of experts that allows students to deepen their understanding of the role of bread and lifestyle medicine.

Follow the link in the bio to book your place today 

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SWEET BAKING: NOURISHING THE GUT & THE MIND The S SWEET BAKING: NOURISHING THE GUT & THE MIND

The Sourdough School: Sweet Baking is an indispensable guide to exploring the techniques and ingredients involved in successful sweet sourdough baking. 

A companion to the bestselling The Sourdough School, it focuses on sweet recipes that are gut-friendly and rely on natural sweetness where possible. 

Classic recipes and new ideas for flavour combinations offer bakers an alternative method of baking sourdough cakes, tarts, pancakes, doughnuts, panettone, pretzels and more – nothing is off limits. 

Follow the link in the bio to our shop, where you can buy a signed copy 

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If you're a Club member, don't forget to come along to our 8pm live session on Thursday with @Vanessakimbell

This is the baking session. We chat about baking topics and suggest recipes, and you get all the tips here.

You are invited to submit any questions about your baking in advance by Wednesday morning.

See you there x 

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SOURDOUGH CLUB LIVE: BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE SOURDOUGH CLUB LIVE: BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE SESSIONS – 7PM TONIGHT 

This is where Club members have the opportunity to ask our amazing Sourdough School in-house team and guests questions about mental health, nutrition, physical health & and tactics for Baking as Lifestyle Medicine via a live Zoom session. 

This week we are joined by Dr Alex Davidson talking about fibre and bowel cancer prevention.

Dr Alex Davidson is our in-house GP and Medical Director. Alex is also trained as a Functional Medicine practitioner. The core of Alex’s work uses evidence-based medicine holistically to get to the root cause of disease.

See you at 7pm Club members 👋

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