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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Probiotics on Workshops

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PREBIOTICS

Please read this before you attend. it’s especially important if you are immune compromised or have histamine intolerance. Durning the course you will be able to try many of the probiotics that I use at The School. Many of the ferments have ben going for years and years, but it’s good idea to take things slowly and if you want to duck out of trying any please say so. We have our own honey, and may of the cultures have been collected on my travels around the world. This is a list of the main ones and when they are prepared and we try to share all the recipes.

Vinegars:

Are used as shrubs, salad dressing, live finishes to the bakes, and as cleaning vineyards.

  • Elder Flower & Rose 
  • Mango & Vanilla
  • Blackcurrant Vinegar
  • Orange & Rosemary Live cleaning Vinegar

Ferments to eat with Lunch.

  • Cauliflower + peppers with Pear
  • Miso Mayonaise
  • 1 year Garlic in Soy
  • Mushrooms in soy and ginger and honey
  • Olives in rosemary
  • Wild garlic Kimchi
  • Pickled Lemons
  • Coldslaw
  • Picked seasonal Vegetables

Fermented Drinks

  • Kefir
  • Home made yogurt.
  • Sardinian wine
  • Fermented Lemon whey
  • Coffee or tea kvass
  • Shrubs  – Vinegar drinks

Un pasteurised  / Raw

  • Honey
  • Miso
  • British Cheeses

Raw / Cultured Butters

  •  Anchovy Butter
  • Kimchi butter,
  • Miso & Honey,
  • Saffron & turmeric orange & Black pepper,
  • Chilli & wild garlic,
  • Lemon & Coriander,
  • Roquefort & Rosemary

 

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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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