Soho Bread Project

Me and my friends did a demo on "no knead bread" a few weeks back at the Real Bread Festival. That's me blobbing walnut & date & cardamom dough on the baking tray, looking way too serious.

Easy recipe for no knead bread and tips on how to open a microbakery - all at the Real Bread... By all accounts the Real Bread Festival at Old Spitalfields Market in early November was a massive success! Well we old lags remember last year when we we

Another word on slashing (or scoring the bread): it is done not just to make the loaf look pretty. You use a small serrated knife or a razor blade (lame) to slash the dough right before baking so to control the expansion of the loaf and prevent it from just bursting at the weakest places of the dough.
There are types of breads that need no scoring. These are the denser breads like some rye varieties.
There's s much more to this but I'll stop here.

These loaves sing! My bread-entry to the World Bread Awards this week - looking forward to results.

If you only try one of my sourdoughs, make it this one.
With spelt, fennel seeds, crumb speckled with some poppy seeds! Just had a slice with raspberry jam, but perfect with butter and honey.

Available from Cafe Café Gourmand today and tomorrow - it keeps!

Questions/comments welcome! x