Baking courses this season

Please book in advance to reserve a place at hornbeambakers@gmail.com

Sunday 12th February: Alternative Baking with Sachi

11-4pm Cost £25   Booking essential

Do you have an allergy, intolerance or just prefer healthy eating? Do you want to learn some methods, techniques, ingredients and recipes in special/alternative diets baking?

This type of baking can seem complicated so why not learn from someone who has good knowledge and experience.

Sachi has been running a successful special diets business for nearly 3 years. www.naughtyandnicecakes.co.uk

Come to our all day workshop on Sunday 12th February at the Hornbeam Centre from 11-4pm

This workshop will cover bread, cakes and cookies. We will be working with a variety of non-wheat, non-gluten, vegan/dairy/egg free and sugar free ingredients such as spelt, rice, buckwheat, corn, nut flours and natural sweeteners, thickeners and binding agents. Any specific requests are welcomed. A basic knowledge in baking is preferred for this workshop as well as enthusiasm to experiment!

By the end of the workshop you will receive some yummy treats, new ideas, recipes and skills to practice and take away with you.

Please book in advance to reserve a place at hornbeambakers@gmail.com

Sunday 26th February: Baking the Basic Loaf with Pilar & David

11-4pm Cost £20  Booking essential

Flour, water, yeast and salt. The magic ingredients for a good loaf of nutritious bread.

This session is for those of you who want to learn the very basics of bread baking or who need a little help with your confidence as bakers or some reassurance for what you’re already doing.

We will be baking a wholewheat loaf (or spelt if you have intolerance). While we wait for the dough to rise we will experiment with some simple unleavened (no yeast) breads, we’ll tell bread stories and you’ll have a chance to grind your own flour with our stone mill.

By the end of the workshop you will receive your own handmade loaf, some other treats and basic recipes from the Hornbeam Bakers’ Collective to carry on your baking journey.

Please book in advance to reserve a place at hornbeambakers@gmail.com

Sunday 25th March: Sourdough Baking 1 with Simon and Pilar

11-4pm Cost  £20 Booking essential

Using sourdough culture is an ancient way of making bread

Come to learn the basics of this wonderful technique to bake incredibly nutritious and tasty loaves

You will learn to make sourdough starters and sponges 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 handfull of new skills

Please book in advance to reserve a place at hornbeambakers@gmail.com

Sunday 22nd April: Sourdough Baking 2 with Simon and Pilar

11-4pm  Cost £25  Booking essential

For people who have done Sourdough Baking 1 or with some experience in sourdough baking, this session will provide a deeper understanding of the technique, teach how to convert any recipe into a sourdough recipe and  experiment further with different flours to make starters and loaves.

You will take your own sourdough freshly baked bread with you, more recipes, tips and skills.. and the confidence to keep going!

Please book in advance to reserve a place at hornbeambakers@gmail.com

Workshop terms

Each workshop is limited to 10 places.  We can only refund cancellations if they are a minimum of a week in advance of the workshop.

(We endeavour to provide affordable, accessible learning but if you cannot meet the cost of the course please contact us to arrange a place for what you can afford.)

The facilitators of the bread workshops at the Hornbeam Centre are from the Hornbeam Bakers Collective. We are a collective of bakers for the Hornbeam Cafe, Hornbeam Box Scheme, Horrnbeam Saturday Stall, Leytonstone Saturday Market, Growing Communities Market and various other events. We are currently seeking funding for our project. Please get in touch if you’d like to support us

About us

We are a Bakers’ Collective and this project is an initiative that aims to make some substantial changes in the way we produce and consume bread in this part of London.

We want to make fresh, handmade, nutritious, organic bread available in our neighbourhoods.

We want to inspire people to bake their own bread for themselves, for each other and for their communities.

We want to celebrate bread and appreciate our different baking traditions.

The Hornbeam Bakers’ Collective supplies fresh bread to the Saturday stall outside the Hornbeam centre run by Organiclea

Our bread is also available with the fruit and veg box scheme so you can place an order for a weekly loaf, every other week…

It’s also for sale at the Hornbeam cafe from Wednesday to Friday and we have a stall at the Growing Communities farmers’ market in Hackney on the first Saturday of the month.

We bake wholemeal loaves, granary, rye, French country bread, spelt loaves, seeded, with grains, using bakers’ yeast or sourdough methods, baps, rolls, pitas, naans, beigels, baguettes etc… All our breads are handmade, contain organic ingredients and have been allowed time for a good fermentation (some of the sourdough loaves for up to 24 hours) which improves the quality of the bread: texture, flavour and nutritional value.

Some of the baking takes place at the Hornbeam kitchen but people also bake from their homes and bring it to the markets and the cafe usually on bike or by foot… and we organise baking courses

Please get in touch if you’d like more info, to order a regular loaf, to take part in the courses or to get involved in any way

hornbeambakers@gmail.com 020 8558 6880

Let’s have good bread on our tables!