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)
Baking with Heritage Grains
Join our bakers Rach and Neil to discover all about Heritage grains in baking. Throughout the day-long course they will examine with you several flours made from ancient grains and use them to make loaves and crispbreads. You’ll explore the history of these grains, the nutritional values and, most importantly, how they taste.
During the day you will be using Spelt as well as Einkorn, Emmer, and Kamut flours. These will be used on their own and also blended with the organic wheat flour we use in the bakery. The next class takes place on 26 October from 9.30am-4pm.
Stirchley Art Room is fundraising
Stirchley Art Room is organising free art sessions for adults in Stirchley Library since 2019. They currently run three daytime sessions and one evening session per week. Each session is run by a qualified art teacher with support from a specialist workshop assistant. They are for people of all abilities, from professionals to beginners, and adults of all ages and backgrounds who come along for all sorts of reasons - friendship, personal development, well-being and mental health, and artistic development.
Despite their best efforts to secure repeat funding the Thursday evening session is currently unfunded and they need help to run this art club which is especially important for those who can’t make the daytime sessions due to work, childcare, and other reasons.
Please support their fundraiser if you can.
Chocolate Bars from Marshall & Co are back!
Since it got a bit chillier, we thought we can dare to get the local chocolate back into our shop shelves.
Marshall & Co‘s chocolate is made in Bournville, but not by a multinational corporation. Unlike most chocolate producers, they work with the actual cocoa bean and take care to preserve all the flavour. All their chocolate is vegan and gluten-free.
Special things this week
The sweets shifts have the following planned:
Coffee, Date & Walnut Bundt
Sticky Ginger Tray-bake
Crumble Jack
Cornflake Brownie
and Blondies!
The Saturday sourdough specials are:
English Mustard, Cheddar & Pumpkin Seed
Fermented Oat
No reservations - first come first served.
This week's lunches
Wednesday
Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Roasted tomato + miso soup w sesame focaccia (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Saag aloo w/sourdough (Ve)
Salt beef on challah bun
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Mushroom, thyme, caramelised shallots, Mozzarella, Gruyère (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 2 Nov, Tue 19 Nov
Simply Sourdough: Sat 9 Nov, Sat 23 Nov
Sweet Breads and Viennoiserie: Sat 12 Oct, Sat 16 Nov
Baking with Heritage Grains Sat 26 Oct
Wholegrain Baking with Tom Baker: will return in 2025
Haseen’s evening classes:
Lap’s all-day classes:
Sausage & Charcuterie: Sat 19 Oct
Seafood Masterclass: will return in 2025
Lap’s evening classes:
Thai: Wed 6 Nov
Ramen: will return in 2025
Dumplings: Wed 16 Oct, Tue 26 Nov
Knife Skills: will return in 2025
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!
Mina, Rach, Pete, Neil, Dave, Martha, Dorit, Molly, Michael, Andy, Kate, Lee & Zahrah
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
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