Knead to know : the real bread starter PDF
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to KNEAD KNOW Real Bread starter the Real Bread Campaign Grub Street • London 3 D A E R B Contents Foreword 6 Money matters and admin 83 Introduction 9 I fought the law 93 About Real Bread 11 Marketing 101 15 Media relations 113 Get Real! A trail of breadcrumbs from your kitchen 19 Courses and training 119 Kicking the additive habit 25 Ingredient suppliers 123 Ingredients 29 Equipment suppliers 127 Notes on Real Bread recipes and methods 35 Bookshelf 131 Some basic Real Bread recipes 43 More useful links 133 49 Different types of Real Bread bakeries and outlets Community Supported Baking 55 Appendix 1: Community Supported Bakery checklist ..138 61 Appendix 2: Basic food hygiene instruction form 140 People The Bakehouse 69 Appendix 3: Thinking about your Real Bread 141 Equipment 73 References 142 81 Insurance Roll of honour 143 Foreword Whether you are a professional baker, a home baker who would like to turn a hobby into a career or just someone who loves Real Bread, then this handbook will become an invaluable tool. It contains advice, recipes and insights from some of the most experienced members of our trade: bakers, millers and retailers. We have all learnt our craft through years of experience, through trial and error and occasionally even by making mistakes, dusting off the flour and starting again and now you have the opportunity to learn from all of that massed experience. For my own part, I believe there is something addictive about flour; that something magical happens when you mix flour with water. With good ingredients, passion and this handbook by your side you can master the dough, learn the language of bread and continue on your journey as a successful Real Bread baker. Real Bread Campaign ambassador, Richard Bertinet, award-winning author of Dough and Crust, founder of The Bertinet Kitchen & Bakery and BBC Food Champion 2010 Portrait by Jenny Zacins Introduction So, you want to be a successful Real Bread baker for your Importantly, reading is no substitute for rolling up your local community. Well, here's a good place to start. sleeves and getting stuck into the dough. In Real Bread making, you learn some of the most important lessons with Beyond tips on setting yourself up to produce and market your hands in your own bakehouse. Also extremely useful tasty loaves of Real Bread successfully, Knead to Know is spending time alongside an experienced professional, offers some answers to questions including: either on a course or better still as an employee or voluntary apprentice at an artisan bakery. • What are the opportunities to forge and strengthen links with my local community? Keep in touch • How can I make a healthier loaf? • In what ways can I reduce the negative environmental impacts of my business? The whole point of this book it to help get more people baking Real Bread for other people in their local communities, and we love to help share the stories of those who do. If Knead Who is this for? to Know helps you with setting up or running a microbakery, Community Supported Bakery, Real Bread social enterprise, As bringing Real Bread back into the hearts of our local or other bready shenanigans, please let us know! If you communities and food economies is a key concern of the bake Real Bread for sale, please feel free to add your loaves Campaign, we concentrate on small-scale production and (and where people can buy them to the map) on our website newcomers to the exciting world of professional baking. and you can email your story to [email protected] Even if you are up and running already, you will find this guide contains information that should be of use, such as You're also very welcome to join the#RealBread conversation suggestions for marketing your Real Bread, for example. with @Real Bread and the rest of the gang on Twitter. Will Knead to Know tell me Join us! everything I need to know? Better still, join the Real Bread Campaign. In return for helping to fund our charitable work, benefits you'll receive This isn't a bread bible, a recipe book, nor does it aim to include access to The Real Baker-e online forum in which be a comprehensive manual to starting your own business. you can ask for and share advice, information and ideas with Instead, it is a buffet of tasters with pointers to where you fellow members. can explore and find out more about the topics you find the most appetising. www.realbreadcampaign.org 9 B R E A D
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