Our bread-making classes

Little Eye Bakery Sourdough Bread Course - Start It Up!

Fancy an informal, hands-on bread-making session,  in a relaxed kitchen environment ? We are booking places for classes at St Bridgets Centre, West Kirby for existing and new sourdough bakers, with a variety of new recipes -  email us for booking info at info@littleeye.org.uk.  £100pp. for our classes run at weekends from 1-6pm or 10-4pm.
(www.stbridgetscentre.co.uk).

Learn all you need to know to get going in your own kitchen as a home baker, making delicious breads in a way that fits into your life. Our one day Start It Up class is an informal, hands-on session, in a domestic-scale kitchen. 
We also do occasional Follow-Up classes, (but no dates available at present) making more complex or unusual breads, for people who have done the Start It Up class, or already make their own bread. 

Our course has been altered to respond to the covid pandemic - we have reduced from 8 to only 6 people per day, to allow more space per person in our pleasant, spacious and well-ventilated hall.

Bread and soup lunch is provided, with fruit loaf tea and coffee for breaks through the day  The course will run from 10 am to around 4pm

The day costs £100 each.

People enjoy our courses, which are all about learning by doing, not watching. From our class in May, Alun emailed us after a successful bake a bit later:

" I cannot express just how useful and enjoyable was your one-day sourdough course I attended at West Kirby just a couple of Saturdays ago.............When I came on your course, I wasn’t sure about sourdough and thought it might be too complicated. How wrong could I be. Sourdough is just great fun and produces the tastiest bread I’ve ever baked. "

In October John said that

"I enjoyed the day and was very pleased to come away with improved knowledge and skills, a sourdough starter, some useful equipment and several loaves of which I could be proud.

All of our questions were answered clearly and all necessary materials and equipment were provided.

I will encourage my daughter and son-in-law to attend when they have the time."

 On the day you will:
·         Understand the importance of the ingredients - from grain to loaf – sources, millers and traditions
·         See how the  fermentation works, and talk through how it can fit into your life
·         Work from different starters, through mixing, shaping and proving  doughs, to the bake

Experiment and have some fun!

We provide all materials (top quality organic flours) and on the Start It Up class we make a dark rye, a malted wheat, a light hand-moulded white, and a fruit loaf  - and you take them home with a live sourdough starter.

 

For info and bookings - email us at info@littleeye.org.uk.  Payment by cheque or transfer to Malcolm Williams
Vouchers available for those of you giving the course as a gift.