Sourdough Creation Workshops for Beginners

By popular demand....we are super excited to be hosting a series of hands-on sourdough workshops where we will explain and demonstrate how to make it at home in your own kitchen! Aimed at those who haven’t done this before, we will explain how, without complicating things.
 
Included in your day: You will be making three different sourdough loaves, discussing and learning about ingredients, proving, elasticity of the dough, shaping, stretch and fold, temperature and timing, baking, scoring, why we use the flour we use, equipment, adding other exciting ingredients such as seeds, cheese or olives, feeling and understanding the difference between proved and not proved dough, the bench scraper and its uses, baking methods, length and temperature of bake, when is it done? Also how long to keep it for, how to freeze it, as well as creating sourdough pizzas or batons and cinnamon buns.... the action packed day will contain more than this, I am only touching the surface with what we will cover whilst you are here.... I don't want to overload you at this stage!
 
This workshop which runs from 10am until at least 4pm is here for you, and is created to give you the confidence and information you need to go ahead and make your own sourdough bread.
 
It takes place in Titchmarsh Village Clubroom, only a couple of doors down from the bakery.
 
What you get:- A take-home bag with a proving basket, liner, a jar of sourdough starter for you to make endless loaves of sourdough bread, bench scraper, encapsulated time & temperature chart, a booklet with 4 recipes and the agenda for the day and useful information, including full instructions on how to make the bread and feed the starter.
 
The venue will have undergone a brand new kitchen refurbishment, and now that we, as a family, have completed 4 years of running Dovely Bakery I am still passionate about it and keen to share the joy! June and Jess will be accompanying me to give you all the best day we can.
 
Afterwards you will be invited to join a Whatsapp group for all workshop attendees so that you can ask any further questions after the day has ended, should you need on the spot help with making your sourdough at home, and in there you can share photos of your ongoing sourdough journey too!
 
There will also be a welcome of tea, coffee, sourdough toast and homemade Dovely jam, lunch which will be real food, hand made from scratch, accompanied by a glass of wine, then afternoon cake and hot drink. 
 
The class will consist of up to 8 people, pairing up for some of the equipment and activity, all of us together in one space. I will demonstrate everything first in any case and also assist and there is no pressure! It is all meant to be fun!
 
Be prepared to get your hands in the dough... you will be weighing, kneading, lifting and using a razor blade as well as working with a very hot oven, involving handling a hot baking tray and boiling water.
 
Wear something that you don't mind getting floury and doughy! And be able to roll up your sleeves, and be comfortable. Bring a pinny if you would like to wear one.
 
Meal: Please note that we will be offering a varied spread of home produced real food. There will be choices such as non dairy, plant based options with lunch, and fruit. We hope that we please everybody however if you have any special dietary needs, please bring this along for yourself. Gluten free won't be something that we are able to provide on this day unfortunately, as wheat is going to be all around us at all times.
 
NOTE: Please be advised that within 8 weeks of the workshop we cannot cancel a reserved place and give a refund however we will attempt to re-sell your place should you need us to, and if successful, we will refund you.