2 Day French – with Sourdough

Panary | 2 Day French with Sourdough

Panary | 2 Day French with Sourdough

Work with levains and poolish to capture the essence of French breads. During the two-day course learn how to manage the sourdough leaven (levain) and use both wheat and rye levains to make incomparable rustic breads which keep for days, some with nuts and raisins added.

Panary | 2 Day French with SourdoughThe flagship loaf will be the rustic pain de campagne.

With the poolish enjoy a vast baguette workshop, and learn handskills for making French shapes.

In yeasted pastries choose either croissants or brioche.

If you have any inclination at all towards baking, I recommend making sourdough yourself. Paul Merry’s PANARY courses in Dorset are an excellent way to start: he has a knack for demystifying a process that is sometimes overcomplicated in bread-making books.
Nikki Duffy, The Guardian Weekend, May 2005

Course Programme

10:00 am Welcome, coffee, discuss programme

Make standard WHITE dough
save some for tomorrow’s pate fermentee
- use rest for FOUGASSE with olives (added olive oil)
- & boules

Discuss LEAVENS – discuss terminology (LEVAIN)
Refresh leaven, FRENCH COUNTRY BREAD
(Pain au Levain/ pain de Campagne)
- demonstrate PANARY’s French levain method
- keep unrefreshed leaven for Levain Baguette
and walnut bread
- refresh enough for tomorrow’s use
Discuss Sourdough:
What is it?
Catching a wild yeast
The role of yeasts and bacteria
Routine refreshment
Long-term keeping

Prepare Leaven/ sponge for
tomorrow’s Normandy Cider Rye
12:00 pm Make LEVAIN BAGUETTE dough, & make a
typical French sourdough loaf with added rye,
(raisins), walnuts
Work the fougasse and the boules
1:00 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm Reading & notetaking from Sourdough bread books
Work the baguettes

Finish baking, crusty in the French style
Make poolish for tomorrow’s baguette workshop
6:00 pm Drinks in the bakery
DAY TWO
9;00 am Inspect levain for French Country bread
- refresh it
9:15 am Make CROISSANT OR BRIOCHE dough
10:00 am Make NORMANDY CIDER RYE
10:30 am Make a typical levain style SPELT bread (hybrid)
11:15 am Make Pain au Levain (Pain de Campagne)
11:30 am BAGUETTE doughmaking, methods (1) & (2)
Refresh RYE leaven
Further reading and studying
12:30 pm LUNCH
Working the doughs
Finish baking
Mill tour
5:30 pm Course finishes

N.B.

  • The wood-fired oven can be used by request on any course.

Day one of all courses begins at 10am with subsequent days beginning at 9am. The day finishes between 5 and 6pm. Unless otherwise stated, all courses run at Cann Mills, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 0BL

SPOUSES AND PARTNERS – are welcome to attend drinks in the bakery.

Upcoming Course Dates

May 2013

  • Sat 25 - 2 Day French / Sourdough-*COURSE FULL* ()
  • July 2013

  • Sat 6 - 2 Day French / Sourdough (6)
  • October 2013

  • Sat 12 - 2 Day French / Sourdough (6)
    • panary adj [L.panis bread + - ARY] Of or pertaining to bread; p. fermentation