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

☀️ Our summer shutdown this year is 12 - 25 August, reopening Weds 28 August. ⛱️

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

More classes for the autumn

We’ve inked in a few more cookery school dates for September and October. Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for all the classes but here are the highlights:

Heritage Grains is back! As this run by two of our senior bakers at the same time, finding space in the baking rota can be a challenge, but we made it work and are delighted to say Baking with Heritage Grains with Rachel and Neil will run on Saturday, 26 October.

You can think of this as “advanced sourdough” where we switch out the standard wheat flour and explore Spelt, Einkorn, Emmer, and Kamut – how they change the baking process and their history and heritage. More details and booking here.

Haseen’s Dosa and Thaali return in October. This autumn we’re running Dosa on the 2nd and Thaali on the 23rd of October. Like all our evening classes these are a blend of a cooking class, cultural history lesson finishing with a hearty meal which you prepared.

Read a short interview with Haseen about the origin of his cooking style.

We’ve added a Sweet Breads & Viennoiserie class in September. As this is one of our most popular classes (the October date sold out immediately) we always intended to run more in the autumn and just needed to check Neil’s availability. And he’s free on Tuesday 17 September! Book here.

There are a few more dates to be confirmed and we’ll announce them over the next couple of weeks. If no dates suits you and you’d like to be informed as soon as new ones are available, sign up to our alert list.

Special things this week

On the sweets trays this week look out for a lime, coconut and raspberry cake on Wed and Thurs followed by a peach, thyme and lemon cake on Fri and Sat.

There’s also a raspberry cheesecake on Fri and a cereal cheesecake on Sat. Plus all the usual cookies, brownies, blondies and more!

(Check our Instagram stories to see exactly what’s on sale each day.)

The Saturday sourdough specials are:

• Pumpkin seed with marmite & maple syrup

• Cheddar jalapéno

No reservations - first come first served.

This week's lunches

Wednesday

• Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)

Thursday

• Salad box: Pearl Barley, Butternut Squash, Roast Peppers, Cherry Tomatoes, Garlic & Basil Dressing (Ve) w/ Crème Fraiche (optional) (V)

Friday

• Curry: Roasted Cauliflower, Chickpea & Spinach w/ sourdough (Ve)

• Salt beef on challah bun

Wed - Fri

• Sourdough Pizza: Chargrilled Aubergine, Red Onion, Chilli & 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.

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, Tue 15 Oct

• Simply Sourdough: Sat 7 Sep, Sat 28 Sep, Sat 5 Oct

• Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Tue 17 Sep, Sat 12 Oct

• Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 26 Oct

• Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: returns in the autumn

Haseen’s evening classes:

• Dosa: Wed 2 Oct

• Thaali: Wed 23 Oct

Lap’s all-day classes:

• Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct

• Seafood Masterclass: Sat 21 Sep

Lap’s evening classes:

• Thai: Wed 25 Sep

• Ramen: Wed 11 Sep

• Dumplings: Tue 10 Sep

• Knife Skills: returns in the autumn

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!

Molly, Mina, Rach, Pete, Michael, Martha, Dorit, Neil & Dave

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

Website: loaf.coop

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