contact Simon on 07970 498213

simon@wildyeastbakery.co.uk

 

The venue is in the Forest of Dean near Newnham, between Chepstow and Gloucester, at Grange Village, Littledean Road, Newnham on Severn, GL14 1HJ. Lifts available from Cardiff. 

 

Recent feedback:

Simon

Thanks for a great course on Saturday.

 

The bread was much admired at our dinner party when I got home- the focaccia disappeared immediately, we got through some wholemeal with potato and some chestnut loaf with the soup and tasted both the rye loaves with cheeses! The stollen has gone in the freezer and I'll take some of it to the office Xmas party.

 

I made delicious blinis out of my starter, so I will henceforth alternate bread making and blini making with my 2 starters. Next baking will be focaccia for a big party next weekend.

 

All the best,
Angela

 

Dear Simon

 

"Just a quick email to say that your starters are alive and well and doing great service here. See pictures below all made with one or other of your starters... I have a friend who I have to bake your Borodinsky rye loaves for every couple of weeks as she is passionate about them. I have made all your recipes at least once, I am not very good at handling the ciabatta dough, managed to tuck lots of flour inside the shapes and they cooked with large floured holes inside them, but I know what I did wrong and I will be more careful next time! ..In fact I just wish I had more people around to bake bread for.....the freezer is full to bursting and I give bread away to everyone I know. It made such a difference spending the day with you, now when I read things in books or on people's websites it makes a lot more sense and I have more confidence."

Joanna B, Bristol

 

"Can I say a huge thank you for yesterday, it was a brilliant day, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and will definitely continue to make my own bread. My mom loved the hybrid and quite surprisingly my father in law was delighted with the San Francisco sourdough, so it looks like I'll have regular orders on the go." JS, Feb 2012

 

If you're a sourdough nut, welcome!  We offer breadmaking courses including team building through breadmaking, offer consultancy to restaurants, and sell bannetons, other baking equipment, and live, fresh sourdough starter cultures.

 

Our bread is so good, we were chosen to represent Wales for the St David's day meal at the House of Commons. We've been talked about on Radio Wales and The Food Programme, written about in The Guardian, and have many loyal fans such as first minister Rhodri Morgan, who called our Cardiff Sourdough 'a work of art'. We've been a UKTV Food Hero and have appeared as a sourdough expert on Ready Steady Cook. 

See more about our breadmaking courses.

 

"Just a short note to thank you for a great bread-making course last weekend. We're still eating the bread from the freezer - but I'm hoping to give my new skills some practice this weekend. I'm about to feed my starter for the first time - so wish me luck!"  KG, 29th April