Using sourdough culture is an ancient method of making bread.

Come and learn the basics of this wonderful technique to bake incredibly nutritious and tasty loaves. You will learn to make sourdough starters and production leavens and experiment with different doughs. By the end of the workshop your own handmade sourdough loaf will be ready to take home together with your own starter for future baking, recipes and a lot of new skills.

This course is designed to provide you with the fermentation and baking skills to build your sourdough and baking intuition, so you can adapt recipes to your…

Things to remember

Please bring a tote bag to carry home your goodies and a 300 ml glass jar with lid to carry your starter!

No previous experience required.

Harriet - 5 June 2023

Best experience ever my son and I really enjoyed ourselves. We are now hooked on baking bread.

Olivia Floris - 5 June 2023

Good class - quite good for beginners only, bread was ok. The teacher is good but not impressed by the bread taste and recipe. The crust is not very thick or crunchy, bread was quite heavy

Alessandra - 3 April 2023

Fantastic class! Jeanne is very knowledgeable, she'll provide you with all the necessary information to bake delicious sourdough bread and how to maintain the starter. You'll walk away with a freshly baked loaf of bread, dough to bake another one at home and with a huge smile on your face and the eagerness to bake more, more and more!

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Flexible cancellation policy

Any class can be cancelled and fully refunded within 24 hours of purchase. See cancellation policy.

Sourdough Food Baking

The Fermentarium

The Fermentarium began its adventure in fermentation in 2014 at the Blackhorse Workshop, Walthamstow, London. At first the emphasis was on baking sourdough bread and pizza-making in a cob oven in the yard as well as sourdough bread-making classes.

In 2014 Simon and David wanted to share their experience and knowledge of fermenting and began to run lactic fermentation classes and then were joined by Anna in March 2016 and added further courses including Soft fermented drinks and dairy ferments.

In November 2016 the Blackhorse Workshop redeveloped the area occupied by the kitchen so now courses are run…

The Hornbeam Cafe

London

458 Hoe St,

Walthamstow

E17 9AH

London