Just Bread

February 2, 2017

Fruit Loaf – packed with sweet deliciousness.

This week, the last week of our subscription, we made a wonderful classic, the fruit loaf. Filled with prunes, raisins and apricots this sweet bread is a great way to start a wintry day. Led by the founder of e5, Ben, we produced over 60 loaves, enough for us to try as well as to send off with the bicycle courier to our subscribers scattered around East London.  As well as the bread, we worked together to make our own lunch consisting of a spicy carrot soup with a delicious harissa sauce to dollop on top. this was the first time we had cooked together to make our own lunch and…

January 27, 2017

Surviving the chilly frost of winter with the warmth of bread

As the cold takes its grip and what feels like the heart of winter settles around us, there is no better place to be then inside a bakery, lovingly preparing bread. On Tuesday we re-visited the multi-grain bread and made approximately 70 loaves for our customers. While we waited for the bread to prove we experimented making butter for the first time. This was the first time many in the group had made butter, and it was a learning curve for all of us. Mariana, our teacher, explained how she uses yogurt to ferment the double cream a little to give the butter a slightly fermented taste. The double cream…

January 20, 2017

Hackney Wild!

This week we revisited the Hackney Wild. This time however, instead of preparing loaves for ourselves, we baked over 55 loaves for our east London subscribers. We worked all morning to shape the large batches of dough that Mariana, our bread teacher, had begun working on earlier. We worked on perfecting the pre-shape, which, as the dough is still quite sticky at that point, is not the easiest time to handle the dough. But with much practice, the loaves began to look rounder and hold together tighter when we put them on the board to rest. Lots of the women have their own methods of working with bread dough and…

December 6, 2016

Combining Touch, Sight, Sound and Smell to create a wonderful loaf

Another day, another loaf……. We began bright and early this morning with breakfast, tea and coffee at E5 Bakehouse while slowly getting to grips with new names and faces. Eight women were present to begin a 10-week training in sourdough bread, with optional pickles, butter and jam making as the course progresses. Alongside the bread product, the women will have the option of completing their level 1 health and hygiene certificate which will allow them to work and volunteer in other commercial kitchens in the future. From all corners of London, in fact, all corners of the world, we began to get to know new people and come to terms…

May 17, 2016

Just Bread – New Course!

Are you a refugee woman interested in learning artisan bread baking skills? Our latest bread baking training course will be starting 14th June 2016 (E5 Bakehouse and Refugee Council working in partnership) Based within a bakery in London Fields (near Hackney Central) you will be taught by a professional baker from E5 Bakehouse’s team. Every Tuesday for 10 weeks (10am till 4pm). Meet and train with other refugee women. Reasonable travel expenses covered and lunch is provided If you are interested in being considered for a place, please email RiJ@refugeecouncil.org.uk or call 02073461047.  Places are limited so we will be meeting and selecting women with a genuine interest in bread…