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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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Cultured Butter & Buttermilk for Gut Support

Learning Objective

You will learn how to make cultured butter and buttermilk and find out about the role of probiotic bacteria.

Learning Outcome

You will understand the health benefits of consuming cultured butter and buttermilk.

How to make a cultured butter to support gut health.

I started making my own butter because I absolutely love real buttermilk. As I began to understand the role of probiotics in supporting the gut I started to inoculate my butter, with lactic acid bacteria.  There is allot of research to show how certain strains of lactic acid bacteria can be beneficial to the gut.  This really appeals to me...the idea of creating a butter that is going to support the gut as part of our 7 course principles really elevates the nourishment to the gut for the humblest of foods, but what is really important to understand is that you would need strain specific evidence to really be able apply the research on specific health benefits: 

This is a guide to which bacteria to look out for to inoculate your butter with strain specific bacteria.

Bifidobacterium bifidum - may aid symptoms of diarrhoea and strengthens the gut barrier...
 

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Learn to make sourdough – you will be able to order a free sourdough starter to get you going.  Start your journey today and find out more about how sourdough is the healthiest bread, and how to apply our 7 core principles to your baking to help your digestion and benefit your overall health and wellbeing. 

There is a world of information and core knowledge inside the Club, and you will be supported by a whole community of bakers as you learn.

The Club is alive with baking and conversations: discover the latest research, tips, enjoy regular inspiring recipes and brilliant webinars, explore our lively and interactive forum and get access to member discounts.  You will also get updates with news to be in the know before anyone else about the latest books by Vanessa Kimbell and the courses on offer at the Sourdough School.

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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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Sourdough Boule Baking Kit & Voucher

Sourdough Boule Baking Kit & Voucher

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 👆

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🌾 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 👆

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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 👆

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