Introduction to Artisan Bread Baking
Duration:
Timings:
Course start dates:
23 Jun 2027
Hourly Schedule
Time
- 9:00
- Arrival & welcome
- Tea, coffee and warm pastries from the kitchen.
- 9:30
- Course Start
- 13:00
- Lunch
- Seasonal lunch prepared by our catering team.
- 16:30
- Course End
- Course ID InArtBrEH
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What’s included
- Learn from expert tutors and technicians with demonstrations, guidance, and support throughout the day.
- Enjoy a seasonal artisan buffet lunch showcasing ingredients sourced from the Welbeck Estate and the surrounding local food community.
- Access our state-of-the-art facilities, with all ingredients and specialist equipment provided.
- Help yourself to unlimited refreshments, including tea, coffee, and cordials throughout the day.
- Wear a School of Artisan Food apron in class, with the option to purchase one to take home after your course.
“Take your first steps into the world of artisan bread making on this hands-on, one-day course with renowned baker, author and tutor Emmanuel Hadjiandreou.
Designed for beginners, this practical course will introduce you to the essential skills and techniques needed to bake delicious bread with confidence.
Throughout the day, you’ll explore the role of key ingredients while learning how to mix, knead, prove and shape dough successfully. With expert guidance at every stage, you’ll gain a solid understanding of the bread-making process and leave with the knowledge to continue baking at home.
What You’ll Learn
Through hands-on baking and expert tuition, you will:
- Understand the function of the key ingredients used in bread making
- Learn effective kneading, proving and shaping techniques
- Build confidence in handling and working with dough
- Develop an understanding of the processes that create flavour, structure and texture
- Gain practical skills for baking artisan bread at home
What You’ll Bake
During the course, you’ll make:
- White country-style loaf
- Tinned malthouse loaf
- Tinned wholemeal loaf
- A variety of bread rolls
Who Is This Course For?
This course is ideal for complete beginners, enthusiastic home cooks and anyone looking to develop their bread-making skills. No previous baking experience is required, just enthusiasm and a willingness to learn alongside fellow food lovers.”
Please Note:
Whilst we make every effort to adhere to best practices regarding allergen control and cross-contamination at The School of Artisan Food, we sincerely regret that we are unable to cater for severe food allergies or coeliac disease. This is due to the continuous and varied use of our teaching spaces, common areas and food preparation areas.
If in any doubt, please contact us to discuss your individual circumstances prior to making a booking, as this will then enable us to produce a personalised Risk Assessment based on your own specific circumstances and better judge if we can safely accommodate you on site.
Your Tutors
Tutor
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Emmanuel HadjiandreouEmmanuel has a real passion for artisan bread. Having trained as a baker in South Africa, he has baked around the world.
In the UK, Emmanuel has worked for Flour Power, Gordon Ramsay, Daylesford Organic and Judges Bakery.
He has a special knowledge of continental breads, having baked in Germany, where he learned to make a world-class stollen. While at Daylesford, the award-winning organic farm shop in Oxfordshire, Emmanuel’s bread won a Soil Association Organic Food Award, with several other bread creations earning the Highly Commended award.
Emmanuel has also published three books:
How to Make Bread won a coveted Guild of Food Writers award.
Making Bread Together – step-by-step recipes for fun and simple breads to make with children
How to Make Sourdough – 45 recipes for sourdough breads that are good for you as well as being great-tasting.
Along with Wayne Caddy, a fellow baking tutor at the School, Emmanuel has represented the UK at the baking Coupe du Monde.
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