This is the weekly bulletin from Loaf in Stirchley, with our specials, lunches and cookery school classes, sent on .
🍞 Pre-order your bread and pastries 🥐
We’ll have plenty on the shelves all week, with lunches served from noon on weekdays.
Our opening hours are:
Wed - Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
Loaf of the week
We sell a core range of bread every week, which is great as you know what you're getting, but we sometimes forget how special they are. This week we're highlighting the multigrain tin.
The multigrain tin is our standard brown yeasted loaf. It starts as a blend of wholemeal and white wheat flour to which we add some rye flour and grated potato - the same base as the Stirchley loaf. We then add barley malt extract to give it that chewy, malty flavour, and a generous amount of oat, wheat and rye grains.
This is a great sandwich bread which holds its structure when sliced thin, and the malt and rye give it a distinct flavour which compliments whatever you decide to spread on it, be it fruity jams, fine cheeses or lashings of peanut butter. Or just eat it on its own!
You can pre-order large (£2.50) and small (£1.30) multigrain tins all week and we try to bake enough to keep it on the shelves all day (with any leftovers going to the food banks).
The Breadcrumbs
Cookery school classes for April have gone on sale. Scroll down this email or see our course calendar for what's available.
Hot Cross Buns are back from next week! Pre-orders will be available from Saturday afternoon. (You might see some on sale this week though as the bakers test our revised recipe...)
Save Stirchley Library - Birmingham council's swinging cuts will close 25 libraries this year. Please help make a case to keep ours open.
Stirchley Open Cinema are doing a charity film quiz this Thursday at Bham Brew Co. You could win some Loaf vouchers!
Birmingham City Council are currently consulting on a new road harm reduction strategy. The consultation is open until 5 April.
This Saturday
Pete will be talking about the origins of Loaf and how we turned into a co-op. Artefact, Birmingham Bike Foundry and Stirchey Co-op Development will also be sharing advice. More info.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Roasted cauliflower with sourdough (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Potato, chickpea and kale with sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough pizza: Mushroom, olives, rocket pesto and mozzarella (V)
Ham and cheese croissant
Tomato, spinach and cheese croissant (V)
Wed – Sat:
Sausage rolls
Vegetable rolls (V)
Lunches are made fresh weekdays for 12 noon.
Our menu for the week — with ingredients and allergens — is on the website.
Special things
On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:
Roast garlic and poppy seed
Green olive, lemon zest and pepper
Along with the usual treats the sweets shift are making a vegan carrot cake!
No reservations - first come first served.
Cookery school classes
The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Tue 16 Apr
Simply Sourdough: Sat 6 Apr
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 20 Apr
Baking with Heritage Grains returns in summer
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: returns in summer
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: returns in autumn
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 11 May
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Wed 17 Apr
Ramen: Thu 4 Apr, Wed 24 Apr
Dumplings: Wed 3 Apr, Tue 23 Apr
Knife Skills: Tue 9 Apr
We run classes throughout the year (except August and December) and schedule new dates as soon as possible. You can sign up to alert lists for specific classes here.
Thanks for all your continued support.
See you next week!
Dave, Dorit, Martha, Michael, Mina, Molly, Neil, Pete, Rach & Sarah
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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