Classes at the big table

Learn to bake the bread you actually eat

Small classes in the back of the bakery. You work your own dough from the first mix to the last fold, eat the bread we baked that morning, and take everything home.

Floured hands shaping a round of dough with a bench scraper

The Saturday class

A country loaf, start to finish.

Saturdays, 9 to 12. Six places.

Mix and fold

Flour, water, starter and salt, and the four folds that give a loaf its strength.

Shape and score

How to tighten a round without tearing it, and a blade you can take home.

Bake at home

Your dough goes home in a basket to rest overnight, with a card for the morning bake.

Coming up

The next few dates

Every class includes coffee, bread from that morning’s bake, and your own dough to take home.
A Saturday class shaping rounds of dough around a long floured table

A country loaf, start to finish

Mix, fold, shape and score a naturally leavened country loaf, then take home a loaf we baked earlier and your own dough to bake the next morning. Six places.

  • Date:
  • Start time: 9am to 12pm
  • Where: The big table, Halden Bakehouse
Shelves with a country loaf, a seeded rye, a batard and a rosemary focaccia

Focaccia and flatbreads

A Thursday evening with a very wet dough: dimpling, oiling and baking a tray of rosemary focaccia, plus two quick flatbreads for the pan at home. Good first class if you have never baked with yeast. Eight places.

  • Date:
  • Start time: 6pm to 8:30pm
  • Where: The big table, Halden Bakehouse
Dark scored loaves cooling on a wooden bench in the early morning

Rye and seeded tin loaves

Rye behaves nothing like wheat. We work a sticky rye and sunflower dough into tins, talk about keeping a rye starter, and you leave with a loaf that slices thin and keeps for a week. Six places.

  • Date:
  • Start time: 9am to 12pm
  • Where: The big table, Halden Bakehouse
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