Many people focus on what they don’t have. You may know them: everything about what they say and what they do reinforces how their life is incomplete. In general, they speak one of two languages: the language of longing or the language of lack. The language of longing has about it a kind
Over the years Virtuous Bread and the Bread Angels have been baking bread with prisoners. It all started about four years ago in The Clink restaurant in a prison in Highdown prison in Sutton, Surrey. We are still active there and Bread Angel Gaye Whitwam has taken over from me to teach sourdough baking to
At The Clink restaurant in High Down prison we bake with both a wheat and a rye sourdough starter. The rye starter was made by the staff of the Clink about 18 months ago when we first started baking together, and they have some of the 1857 sourdough that I gave them as a gift.
Baking sourdough stollen Teaching baking at The Clink restaurant in High Down Prison is always a blast. There are new things to see, do, and try every time. We did a lot of Italian Baking this year. We had the world premiere of the sourdough hot cross bun. This month, we prepared (in addition to
It’s a baking frenzy at The Clink but the trimph of the day was the sourdough hot cross buns.
Sourdough olive oil bread – the fourth in the Italian Bread Project.
First of the year’s programme of baking with prisoners at The Clink restaurant in a category B prison is very rewarding.