Tag Archive | "Artisan Bread"
Upcoming Courses
If you are looking for a unique Mother’s Day gift then Shires has the answer.
On Saturday 13 March we are running our popular
Artisan Bread course, there are just four places
remaining. We are delighted to offer these places to your special Mum at just £65, that’s £20 off the usual student rate of £85. When booking enter RH5 on the discount [...]
Events
A huge thanks to everyone who paid us a visit at the Holdenby Show – we had a great weekend with some fabulous demos taking place.
We had over 150 entries to our competition to win a day with Shires – we are delighted to announce that our winner is Caroline Sweetman from Daventry
Many of you [...]
Past Courses
A recipe from our
Aritisan bread day
Basic Bread recipe
Ingredients
1kilo Strong White Bread Flour 100%
10g Fresh Yeast 10%
20g Salt 20%
600ml Warm Water 35c (hand hot) 60%
60g Oil 6%
Method
Weigh all ingredients, oven temperature 240c.
Put the yeast, oil and water in a jug and mix.
Sieve flour and salt.
Make a well and add three-quarter of the liquid, mix well, gradually add the other liquid mix [...]
Past Courses
August 1 saw the launch of our first course at Northampton College – students joined Richard Curtis to learn the art of Artisan bread making.
The students where taken through a brief history of bread making before measuring, kneading and fermenting their first batch of dough.
Richard said every student went from the kitchen loaded with loaves [...]