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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Recipe Development & Testing

I am always developing and making new recipes. Despite having many years of experience writing and teaching, I sometimes make assumptions and inevitably forget to include information or, conversely, add too much detail, which can be equally confusing.

To make sure that the recipes work, you will find in this section recipes that need to be tested first. In doing so, you help everyone, and I can confidently share them. Your help and feedback on this makes such a difference, and I very much appreciate it. If, for any reason, you get stuck partway through a bake, please WhatsApp me, and I will respond. +44(0) 7813308301

Here is the link to the recipe development and testing page, and here is the recipe testing feedback form.  

Please ONLY give feedback via the form, as I lose and forget any other information as it goes outside the editing system.

Vanessa

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Earl grey tea loaf

Mushroom traybake

Buttermilk & nutmeg pain de mie

Chocolate & caraway tin loaf

Oat pocket breads

A wooden bowl filled with blueberries sits on a rustic wooden surface. A few blueberries have spilled out of the bowl and lie on the table next to it. The blueberries are dark and plump, contrasting with the textured, weathered wood of the table. The image has a cozy, natural feel with a focus on the fresh berries.

Sourdough Blueberry Muffins

Sourdough Orange Cardamom Rose Brioche Buns

Six slices of cake on a cooling rack on top of a wooden board, with a spoon filled with honey beside.

Basic vanilla & honey sourdough cake

nettles

Nettle Soup

Fresh Pumpkin Sourdough Pasta

Tomato focaccia

A tattooed arm holding a handle to a baking dish with a golden miso flatbread inside

Miso flatbread

Basic sourdough ciabatta

Loaf of sliced homemade bread on parchment paper atop a wooden cutting board.

Basic sourdough 50:50 tin loaf

Building ability to digest fibre

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