][1]Have Mary Berry, twinkly-eyed Paul and the Great British Bake Off whet your appetite for getting busy with a baking tray? Would you like to be able turn out the perfect loaf but find instead that your bread is a risk to dental health? We can help.
Next Wednesday, Edinburgh restaurant Cafe St Honoré is hosting a ‘real bread’ supper created by passionate bread-making chef Neil Forbes to celebrate Real Bread Maker Week.
Master of the craft
Master of the craft, Andrew Whitley, will be on hand to extol the virtues of real bread with a series of talks throughout the dinner. A celebrated baker, teacher of artisan bread-making, author of ‘Bread Matters’ and co-founder of the Real Bread campaign, there is not much Andrew doesn’t know about bannocks, bings and bara briths.
Andrew runs authoritative short courses at Macbiehill Farmhouse, a five acre organic smallholding in the Scottish Borders. He bakes in his studio kitchen with its large wood-fired oven. He is currently developing a ‘Scotland the Bread’ project aimed at building a Scottish flour and bread supply that is healthy, equitable, locally controlled and sustainable.
Raffle
During the evening, raffle tickets will be sold in support of enterprises helping people who are marginalised by mainstream society to take advantage of the employment, therapeutic and social opportunities offered by real bread making.
There are four prizes to win on the night including a starter kit and a signed Bread Matters book. Signed copies of Andrew’s book will also be available to buy on the night.
Selection of beers
The menu, including a selection of beers with each course, is as follows:
Andrew’s Borodinsky made with rye grown and milled at Macbiehill and ‘Scotland the Bread’, served with smoked mackerel, bresaola and crowdie
Organic pure-bred Aberdeen Angus shin of beef stew with organic carrots and wild leeks, served with Cafe St Honoré sourdough
Sweet cicely set custard with seasonal fruit
Criffel, Lanark blue and Mull cheddar with Andrew’s fruit & nut loaf and ‘Ark of Taste’ beremeal bannocks
The event takes place from 7.30pm on Wednesday 15th May at Cafe St Honoré and tickets are £45 a head.