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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Sourdough Pancakes with Cherry Compote

This is one of our earliest recipes. It's amazing to think that the club is more than 10 years old.  

LOVE CHERRIES

Italians love cherries.  Actually everyone loves them, but my mother ( who is Italian) particularly loves them.  She makes the most wonderful things with them and about 25 years ago she planted a cherry tree in her garden. In spring it is as pretty as a picture and the bees busy themselves gathering nectar from the delicate blossom, but by the end of July it is fully weighted down, it’s branches laden down with dozens of bunches of great big juicy red cherries. The easy picking ones from the lower branches were long gone, but I’ve never been one to...

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