The Sourdough School

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Discover Baking as Lifestyle Medicine, and how to bake Proven Bread, from the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, where we train healthcare professionals, teach bakers, and support individuals to bake personalised bread using nutrigenetics and gut health assessments.

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How to Score & Bake your sourdough bread

Learning Objective

You will learn how to score and bake your sourdough. You will become more familiar with the method of scoring your loaf so that you can practice and keep improving. You will also find out how to bake your bread in a cloche and achieve a crust that you enjoy eating.

Learning Outcome

You will now have the knowledge to be able to score and bake your sourdough bread, and the tools to help you in your continuing practice towards achieving your ideal style of bread.

Want to learn how to score and bake your bread to achieve a glorious golden crust? In these two video tutorials, Vanessa guides you through the method for doing just that, so that you can practiceevery time you make sourdough. To continue reading, subscribe now for unlimited access. Subscribe

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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share 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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