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The July 12th class was a very educational day. Everyone went home with a biga to make thir own bread, as well as a delicious finished loaf. Please join us in our next class. If you are interested please contact me at akiko@whiteacresfarm.com. I will put you on the list.
Artisanal Bread Class with Debra Auden.
Class time 3.5 hours
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Cost $50.
You may email me at this address or at akiko@whiteacresfarm.com
The class size would be limited to 9 people..
If the class has filled up, more classes will follow.
Hope you can join us.
Akiko White
Debra Auden’s knowledge in bread making has come with many years of making artisan breads. She and her husband Bruce started Restaurant Biga and LocuStreet Bakery and then followed with Bakersfield Bakery in San Antonio in the 90's. At that time she was the soul (sole) bread maker of the restaurant. Her family is lucky to enjoy the hard work of her hands as she bakes them bread daily. These delicious breads go through a slow rise which gives them their hard crust and chewy, porous texture. Debra's breads have been featured in Texas Monthly, Southern Living, Food and Wine and many industry publications. Debra has formerly taught classes at the Blanco River Cooking School. This school was run by "Leslie McGrath".
In our class, Debra will share how to make her artisan style breads by demonstrating a basic loaf using a "biga" for a breadstarter. Using only four ingredients to make the perfect loaf, each participant will make their own loaf during class to bake and bring home. Discussions will include topics such as hand and machine kneading techniques, various types of starters and the importance of select types of flours and other ingredients.
"[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells...there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread."
M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
"I am going to learn to make bread to-morrow. So you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you don't know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch."
Emily Dickinson, American poet (1830-1886)
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