Bread Making Courses

Bread for Beginners
This course is designed to introduce beginners to home bread making. It is a one day course which will provide the student with the skills necessary to produce tasty and attractive real bread, whilst dispelling all of the myths surrounding traditional bread making. Kneading, proving, shaping and baking will soon become second nature to you. We will discuss how bread works and how to produce a great loaf time after time.
Students will produce three standard doughs and produce bread products from each, going home with a box of bread and we hope, lots of confidence.

Feedback from 'Tean' on the 2nd May 2013
who attended our Slow Bread Class:
"May I just say a HUGE thank you for Saturday!! I had a really fabulous time!! The company was great, the lunch was wonderful (can I have the recipe for the soup please Sally!!) and the teaching marvelous!! Am seriously into sour dough now!! I wish I could have taken a picture of my childrens and husbands faces when they saw all the bread I came home with!! We ate one of the fig breads that evening with the kids as we sat round the table and talked and ate until nearly midnite!!" Tean xx

Feedback from Chris Porter on the 31st April 2013
who attended our Slow Bread Class:
"The session was well structured and Roger proved to be an informative and generous teacher, sharing his knowledge and experience as well as guiding and helping us to make great bread. I have taught a lot in the past and really appreciate being well taught. Having only 4 in the class allowed us all to learn fast and well plus having such great bread to take home was great. Will definitely do another one" - Many thanks Chris Porter

Feedback from Matt Fryer, 11th February 2013
who attended our Italian Class:
"Just wanted to say a huge thanks for the course last week, Mum and I really really loved it.. Now to put into practice what you taught us!!!" Just thought you might like to know I have done a blog post with images on my site this morning - read Matts blog

Feedback from Margi Lamey, 25th November 2012
who attended our Italian Class:
"Thank you for a wonderful day of discovery at our Italian bread course. Lunch was excellent thanks to Sally . Roger was a born teacher who explained our five different breads so clearly and the family loved the results! we will definitely be back x"

Feedback from Geoff and Jane
who attended a Beginners Bread Class:
"We had a brilliant day with Roger and Sally at the Red Dog Bakery on our Bread Baking course and can really recommend it. It was a fun day whilst learning the skills needed to make and bake a variety of bread.
We even managed to bring home a good supply of our days handywork and will enjoy eating our way through it!
They were excellent hosts and kept us supplied with tea and coffee throughout the day, as well as a lovely lunch."

French Bread

Our french bread making course will de-mystify the art of producing good quality french bread at home. We will teach the traditional methods which produce the bread we all love so much.

Italian Bread

This one day course will give you the confidence to produce three delicious doughs to produce various breads in the comfort of your own kitchen.

Slow Bread

This class is designed for the confident bread maker who wants to move on to sourdough bread. This class will teach you all you knead to know about making and maintaining your starter and then producing a great loaf of sourdough bread.

Course details:

Refreshments and lunch will be supplied on the day.
Bed and Breakfast is also available.

The price of our courses are £65 per day for Beginners, Slow Bread £95 and £75 per day for Italian & French Bread. Red Dog gift vouchers are also available for all courses.

When you find a class that is right for you, please contact us by telephone 01409 231 735 or email reddogbakery@yahoo.co.uk. A deposit* of £25.00 will be required to confirm your place, please note that class numbers are limited. We are unable to accept credit cards.

* deposits will be refunded up to 1 month before class date.

Please make cheques payable to Reddog Bakery and send to:
Edell, Broad Street, Black Torrington, Devon EX21 5PT.
'Please include full name, contact number and email'

Private Workshops Available.

For Birthdays, team building, get together or any other special occasion, please get in touch, we can arrange a special bread class at your home or at the Red Dog Bakery. Please contact us more information and prices.

B & B accommodation is available in the village, please contact us for more details.

Course Dates: 2013

Bread for Beginners

May 1st Full
May 12th Full
June 9th - 1 space left
July 18th Full
July 31st - 1 space left
August 25th

French Bread

May 26th Full
July 21st Full

Slow Bread

June 30th - 1 space left

Italian

April 14th - Full
April 28th - Full
May 18th
August 7th - Full
August 21st - 3 spaces left
Sept 4th - 2 spaces left

For more information about our courses or check the latest availability please call us on Tel. 01409 231735, email us at reddogbakery@yahoo.co.uk or click on the Contact button.

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