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)
Available spaces on our Ramen evening course on Wednesday 22 May
Join Loaf and expert cookery tutor Lap-fai Lee to learn how to make alkali noodles from scratch and use them in two classic Asian noodle dishes; Chinese dandanmian and Japanese ramen.
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker on Saturday 25th May
Join our founder Tom Baker for a Wholegrain Baking course at Loaf!
On this exciting course Tom will draw on his 15 years of baking experience, and share with you the joys of baking with wholemeal flour and using more whole grains in your home-baking. As well as all the practical hand-skills needed to handle doughs with a higher proportion of wholemeal in, Tom will help you to gain an understanding of the biology of grains (wheat, rye and spelt) and the value of using and eating whole grains in terms of both nutrition, economics and politics.
Special things this week
Sweet bakes available this week inculde an Almond Poppyseed Bundt, one White Chocolate Blondie with Raspberries and a Tiramisu Blondie.
For the fans of our vegan sweets we will have Flapjack Brownies, a Pecan & Caramel Brownie and two kinds of Crumble Jacks: One with Apricots and one with Cherry and Raspberry Marmelade from Jacky’s Pantry.
On Saturday the bakers will be making two sourdough specials:
Ras el hanout & Raisin
Roast Balsamic Onions
No reservations - first come first served.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Curry: Tarka daal with sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Watercress Soup w/ Pumpkin Seed Focaccia (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Vietnamese Curry w/ Baguette (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Four Cheese Pizza (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: returns in summer
Simply Sourdough: Sat 1 Jun, Sat 13 July
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 22 June, Sat 20 July
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 13 June
Ramen: Wed 22 May
Dumplings: Tue 21 May
Knife Skills: Tue 28 May
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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