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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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Sourdough Balep Korkun – Tibetan Monastery Bread

Learning Objective

You will learn how to make a wholegrain sourdough flatbread containing aniseed. You will discover how this inclusion, as well as taking the time to eat slowly, can aid digestion.

Learning Outcome

You will understand how to make this sourdough flatbread and how it might be good for your digestive system.

Balep Korkun is a type of flatbread from central Tibet, and is a wonderfully simple but extremely delicious recipe! The long slow fermentation and the fact that it is made with 100% whole wheat makes this a staple addition to any meal that you would eat with flatbreads, and the addition of anise makes the flatbreads beautifully fragrant. To access to the most comprehensive online sourdough course and our library of video tutorials, sourdough recipes, expert interviews and tips, subscribe now to The Sourdough Club. Learn to make Sourdough and you can order a free starter to get you going. Start your journey today & discover why sourdough is the healthiest bread. Find out more about how sourdough is the healthiest bread, and apply our 7 core principles to your baking to help your digestion & benefit your overall health & wellbeing. There is a world of information inside the club with core knowledge, so you learn to understand sourdough and a have whole community of bakers to support you. It's alive with baking and conversations, with the latest research, tips, regular inspiring recipes and brilliant webinars, an interactive forum, 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 Vanessa Kimbell, and courses at the Sourdough School. To join the Sourdough Club click here If you are not able to join at the moment then please subscribe to our Sourdough Club magazine and keep up to date In the meantime, please do follow us on Instagram & Facebook LOVE BAKE NOURISH

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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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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 

#lifestylemedicine
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 

#sweetsourdough #sourdoughcakes #sourdoughbaking #sweetbakes #sourdoughcake #sweetsourdoughbread 

The Sourdough School Sweet Baking by @VanessaKimbell. Photos by @NassimaRothacker. Published by @KyleBooksUK. Styled by @MichaelJamesBakes. Foreword by Professor @Tim.Spector. Cover intro by @NigellaLawson
8PM THURSDAYS – MEMBERS BAKING Q&A LIVE SESSION 8PM THURSDAYS – MEMBERS BAKING Q&A LIVE SESSION

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 

#sourdough #sourdoughclub #bread #sourdoughlove #sourdoughlover #naturalleavened #leavening #levain #realbread #breadmaking #bakebread #makebread #makerealbread #learntobakebread #breadmakingclass #sourdoughstories #bakingforlove #bakingtherapy #sourdoughbaking
THE REAL DEAL this is artisan baker and an extraor THE REAL DEAL this is artisan baker and an extraordinary person who has been teaching, sharing and striving for a more equitable bread system for decades meet @michael.bakerman and a  this is a short clip from the television documentary in Georgia where he is building a baking school. #artisan
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 👋

#guthealth #healyourgut #healthygut #guthealing #guthealthmatters #letfoodbethymedicine #foodasmedicine #gutbrainconnection #nutrientdense #micronutrients #digestivehealth #nutritionfacts #microbiome #breadandguts #zoe #bluepoo #bluepoochallenge
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