Sourdough bread class in Karekare, Saturday 8 January 2011
Kate Stone has been romancing yeasts and fashioning simple ingredients into bread for decades. Whether blearliy lighting the fire in her pajamas in Karekare New Zealand or dressed in a regulation uniform at culinary school, Kate is undeniably, a bread geek. In daily production at her restaurant Katrina's, Kate perfected her baguettes. Recently, working as a baker at Auckland based Wild Wheat, she rounded out her bread abilities with a focus sourdough and Italian hearth style breads.
Kate will be sharing her bread skills and anecdotes in upcoming one day bread making class on Saturday 8, January 2011. In conjunction with Slowfoods Waitekere, Kate will share how to make and use a sourdough starter, as well demonstrate and explore various sourdough and wild yeasted breads. Class participants will use a dandy new Fantana Forni wood fired oven as well as a standard domestic oven to bake their creations.
With attention to both crust (exterior) and crumb(interior) students will learn to engineer their own perfect loaf. Students need to bring a medium glass or plastic container to store their new starter, and a mind to keep a sense of humor in. Dress appropriately for cooking.
Baking will be followed a splendid bread tasting and exploration of serving ideas for fresh and day old breads.
Cost of the course is 75.00 Trades are embraced and encouraged!
Class will be held from 1:00 through 4:30 Saturday afternoon at 138 Lone Kauri road.
For more information and directions call Kate at 812 8719.
Space is available for eight students
Call and reserve now!
