This is the weekly-ish 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:
Tue - Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1

Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)

Special things this week

Special sweet things this week include:

• Lemon poppyseed cake

• Blueberry crumble cake

• Crumble jack

• Orange Semolina cake

• and more 🎉

The Saturday sourdough specials are:

• Spring onion, chilli and garlic

• Brown butter, pine nuts, cayenne pepper and cumin

  (We are going more spicy this week!)

  No reservations - first come first served.

We’ve got a new book - Modern Sourdough

We believe everyone has the right to be able to find, cook, and eat real food every day. Whether it’s learning how to make a white tin or sourdough bread. In one of our courses, taught by our baker Rach, you can learn how to make sourdough bread. We love to send you home with enough motivation and the skills to confidently make sourdough in your own home. If you can’t join our courses, but still want to learn how to make sourdough bread, we can recommend the book ‘modern sourdough’ by self-taught baker Michelle Eshkeri. It’s filled with information like how to make your own starter, how to bake bread and many sweet and savoury recipes. You can find the book in our shop shelve next to ‘Knead to Know … more’, which we recommend if you are thinking of setting up your own microbakery (published by the Real Bread Campaign).

Next week is pancake day - why not learn how to make dosa?

On Tuesday 4th March we will have our tutor Haseen Muthalali back at Loaf to teach during a three hour workshop the secrets of dosa – the right consistency of fermented ground rice for the dosa mixture, the secret flavours of the Kerala sambar, Potato masala filling, a wonderful tomato and tamarind chutney plus a fresh coconut, mint and coriander chutney and of course the cooking techniques for the perfect dosa. The course takes place on from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, is suitable for Vegans and the ingredients are gluten free. And the best: You will eat all you made for dinner.

In 2023 we interviewed Haseen for our newsletter - have a look if you would like to know more about him and how he ended up teaching at Loaf!

Head to our website for more information about the class.

This week's lunches

Tuesday

• Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)

Wednesday

• Soup: Moroccan spiced chickpea soup w/ sourdough (Ve)

Thursday

• Soup: Roast sweet potato and red lentil soup w/ garlic and herb focaccia (Ve)

Friday

• Curry: Thai yellow curry with cauliflower, potato, green beans and peppers w/ sourdough (Ve)

• Salt beef on Challah bun

Wed - Fri

• Sourdough Pizza: Artichoke, sun dried tomato, basil & mozzarella (V)

• Ham and cheese croissant

• Vegetarian 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 just been released!

Loaf’s all-day classes:

• Bread — Back to Basics: Sat April 12th, Sat 10th May

• Simply Sourdough: Sat April 5th, Sat May 17th

• Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 24th May

• Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 29 Mar

• Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: Sold out at the moment. More dates will be released very soon.

Haseen’s evening classes:

• Dosa: Tue 4 Mar (pancake day!)

• Thaali: Wed 19 Mar

Lap’s all-day classes:

• Sausage & Charcuterie: Sold out at the moment. More dates will be released soon.

• Seafood Masterclass: Sat 26th April

Lap’s evening classes:

• Thai: Weds 2nd April.

• Ramen: Thursday 27th March, Weds 30th April

• Dumplings: Weds 26th March, Tues 29th April

• Knife Skills: Tues 1st April

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.

Give the gift of learning!

If you think of gifting one class but you are not sure which one would be preferred you could buy a gift voucher instead.

Our vouchers can be purchased in any value you like for redemption against future bookings. Vouchers purchased online will give you a downloadable pdf which can be emailed to the recipient directly, or to you for printing and giving to them by hand. Alternatively you can come to us and buy vouchers in the shop.

Thanks for all your continued support.

See you soon!

Neil, Mina, Rach, Martha, Pete, Dave, Dorit, Molly, Michael, Andy, Kate, Lee & Zahrah

Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map

Website: loaf.coop

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