The Sourdough School

BREAD COURSES || NUTRITION TRAINING || DIGESTION ANALYSIS || PERSONALISED BREAD

Learn to bake, eat, and share the healthiest bread in the world. Discover how to bake as Lifestyle Medicine from the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell’s beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire in the UK, where we train healthcare professionals, teach bakers, and support individuals to bake personalised bread using nutrigenetics and gut health assessments.

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Will I learn to make Sourdough on the Diploma?

To put this simply, you will learn every aspect of baking Sourdough bread to an advanced level

Dr Kimbell is one of the most renowned sourdough bakers; with a lifetime of baking, the practical module builds your knowledge each week and will take you beyond the standard baking approach to bread, and you will be amazed at how your artisan baking skills build on this course.

So yes, you will learn how to make sourdough. You will also learn to understand the Sourdough process, fermentation mechanisms, and its impact on health. Baking is key to being able to prescribe.

  • You learn baking as a separate module called BALM Practical. You will learn the following:
  • How to look after many types of starter
  • How to create a botanical blend
  • How to control the flavour of sourdough
  • How to blend and mill your own flour
  • How to make a classic sourdough boule
  • Which variables affect the fermentation?
  • How much to hydrate your bread by
  • How to get an open crumb structure
  • About fibre, protein & gluten in the flour
  • Understanding shaping & Scoring
  • An overview of nutrition & digestibility of bread
  • Eating symbiotically for optimal gut health
  • Why diversity is key to gut health
  • About the gut microbiome and why the kind of bread you eat matters
  • Probiotics & prebiotics
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