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)
Pay It Forward!
Loaf has always been passionate about giving back to our community and those in need. For years, even before the pandemic, we have given to initiatives like Incredible Surplus and B30 Food Bank when we have bread left. We hate throwing anything away.
We are really pleased to announce we are introducing a ‘Pay It Forward’ scheme at Loaf. Our aim is to be able to donate to people directly from our shop and to take donations from customers to give bread away to those in need.
It works like this: You can make a donation of £5 and a yellow token will be placed in a pot by our till in the shop. 1 token = 1 loaf. A person who is in need of a loaf can then take the token, ask for the loaf they would like and pay for it with that token. No questions asked. No judgement. Simple.
Not all of our loaves cost £5 and so any surplus money we take will go back into funding the project.
We are a community bakery, and we are always thinking of how we can honour that title. One of those is always wanting to give back to our area. We would like to thank our customers for their generosity with other charity donations they have made, hopefully this will make a difference to families, and we hope we can help them, even in this small way.
Free Spaces for our classes in September!
The following classes have free spaces to book this month:
Dumplings: Tue 10 September
Ramen: Wednesday 11 September
Bread: Back to Basics: Saturday 14 September
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tuesday 17 September
Seafood Masterclass: Saturday 21 September
And if you want to learn how to use and care for your knives properly, have a look at our our evening class with Lap-fai Lee Knife Skills & Maintenance on Tuesday 1 October!
All our available cookery school classes are listed further down this email.
Special things this week
The sweets shifts have the following planned:
Carrot Cake
Lemon Poppy Seed Loaves
Apple Crumble Tart
Pineapple Upside-down cake
Biscoff Blondies
Bakewell Blondies
Rice Krispy Treats
Choc Chip Cookies
Banana Pecan Oat Cookies
Check our Instagram stories to see exactly what’s on sale each day.
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
Cheddar and Courgette
Red Onion Marmalade
No reservations - first come first served.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Stirchley Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Sandwich: Spicy Cauliflower, lettuce, tomato, red onion & vegan ranch dressing on everything bagel focaccia (ve) w/ optional feta (v)
Friday
Curry: Aubergine, lentil & coconut with Sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Roasted red pepper, corn, goats cheese, scamorza and mozzarella w/ smoky tomato sauce (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.
Local News
Change Kitchen is crowdfunding to ensure the Wellbeing of our communities during this cost of living crisis
On Saturday 7th September is Heritage Open Day in Stirchley Baths from 11am til 3pm with exhibitions about Bournville Station and Pershore Road.
Some of you might know our friend JoJo Wood, founder of Path Carvers. Jojo and and her father Robin got mentioned in The Guardian
Cookery school classes
The following classes have spaces as of this newsletter being posted.
Loaf’s all-day classes:
Bread — Back to Basics: Sat 14 Sep
Simply Sourdough: Sat 5 Oct
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tue 17 Sep
Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 26 Oct
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: returns in the autumn
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct
Seafood Masterclass: Sat 21 Sep
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Wed 6 Nov
Ramen: Wed 11 Sep, Wed 27 Nov
Dumplings: Tue 10 Sep, Wed 16 Oct, Tue 26 Nov
Knife Skills: Tue 1 Oct
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 soon!
Matha, Pete, Dave, Neil, Mina, Rach, Martha, Michael, Molly & Dorit
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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