This is the weekly bulletin from Loaf in Stirchley, with our specials, lunches and cookery school classes.
🍞 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)
Special things this week
We're doing Hot Cross Buns for one more week! And if there are any leftovers we'll be turning them into rebaked Almond creme filled Hot Cross Buns for Saturday!
The sweets shift are making two lemon cakes on top of the usual blondies and brownies: A Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt and an Italian Ciambellone.
On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:
Fermented rye porridge
Chilli and cheese
No reservations - first come first served.
New class dates released
We've released dates for cookery school classes in May (and one in June). Scroll down for details and links to book.
New shop things
We now stock coffee beans from Hundred House, a lovely roaster in Craven Arms, Shropshire who we used to stock pre-pandemic and are delighted to have back on the shelves.
We have a new butter supplier, Estate Dairy, which the bakers are loving using in our pastries. They also do a 250g roll which we have for sale in the shop fridge. We hope you like it as much as we do!
We are currently looking for a new egg supplier. Thank you for your patience.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Coconut spring green soup & chilli oil with sourdough (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Potato, red pepper and spinach with sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough pizza: Grilled aubergine, basil, sundried tomato, smoked applewood cheddar, mozzarella & parmesan herby breadcrumbs (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.
Cookery school classes
The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.
Dates in bold have just been released!
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Tue 7 May
Simply Sourdough: Sat 1 Jun
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tue 14 May
Baking with Heritage Grains returns in summer
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sat 25 May
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, Wed 22 May
Dumplings: Wed 3 Apr, Tue 23 Apr, Tue 21 May
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, Molly, Neil, Mina, Michael, Rach, Pete, Martha, Sarah & Dorit
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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