The Summer Baker: Trail Mix Bread with Tara Jensen

NOTE: iphone and ipad users, CLICK HERE to register for class.

What’s on the Menu:

• Trail Mix Bread
• Sourdough baking process from start to finish
• Tara’s temperature control tips for summer baking
  
  Sourdough baking in the summer is challenging. Put your starter in the fridge and it gets overly chilly and tricky to wake up. But leave it out on the counter and it runs the risk of becoming overactive in the summer heat. What’s a baker to do? Ask for help from sourdough expert and author of “A Baker’s Year” and “Flour Power” Tara Jensen, of course. Join Tara at this livestream class to learn how to be a successful and confident sourdough baker all year round. Tara will start by showing you her solutions—some DIY, some just a click away—to staying in control of temperatures, both for your starter and for your doughs and loaves as they proof. Then, she’ll put the theory into practice as she makes a loaf of trail mix bread, a creative loaf that’s studded with peanuts, raisins and chocolate—in other words, all the things you’d want on a brisk hike or at a summery picnic. In the course of just 75 minutes, you’ll see every stage of the home baking process, from feeding your starter to mixing dough, folding, proving, shaping and baking. Plus, since we all have different ideal trail mix blends, you’ll get inspiration from Tara on ways to create countless variations of this bread. We guarantee that you’ll come away from this class inspired to bake in all seasons.

About Tara: Tara Jensen, author of “A Baker’s Year” and “Flour Power,” has been baking professionally for over 20 years. She has worked at Red Hen Baking in Middlesex, Vermont; Farm & Sparrow in Asheville, North Carolina; with Jennifer Lapidus at Carolina Ground, also in Asheville; and ran her own bakery, Smoke Signals. Her bread and pies have been featured in publications such as Food & Wine and Bon Appétit, and she teaches bread baking workshops in Virginia, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She teaches in person in northern Virginia; find more information about all her events, both virtual and in-person, on her website.

This class is generously sponsored by Brød and Taylor. Brød & Taylor was founded on a passion for making wholesome food from scratch. Their products and recipes aim to transform this often challenging process into a simple pleasure. Their first product, the folding proofer, was a novel homemade gift from Brød & Taylor’s founder, Michael Taylor, to his elderly mother-in-law. She needed a reliable way to rise bread in her small–often cold–South Dakota kitchen. Requests from other bakers soon followed. So began his quest to develop a proofer that could be built for everyone. And of course, it had to fold for easy storage. A seemingly endless process of designs, prototypes and tests finally led to the first Folding Proofers hitting the market in 2012. Now, the Folding Proofer is beloved by countless bakers and also provides accurate temperature control for culturing, fermentation and slow-cooking. And they didn’t stop there: Brød and Taylor now makes everything from precise kitchen scales to sourdough homes to knife sharpening tools and more. Nestled in a small town in the heart of the Berkshires in Northwestern Massachusetts, Brød & Taylor thinks big.

Tara will be showing you the creative ways she uses Brød & Taylor’s Sourdough Home at this class. Use code HAPPYHOME for 20% off your Sourdough Home from the Milk Street Store.

Want to give this class as a gift? You can purchase gift cards here.

Immediately after registering, you will get a confirmation email that contains the Zoom meeting log-in information. One week prior to the class (or within 48 hours, if you register less than one week in advance), you will receive instructions on how to prepare ingredients and equipment in order to cook along with us.

After class, you will receive a recording of the event, as well as a packet with recipes and resources that we discuss during the event. If you have any questions about this class, please don't hesitate to get in touch via cookingschool@177milkstreet.com.

This event has limited spots, and you must register in advance via Eventbrite. One sign-up covers one device. Closed Captioning is available for this event.

Payments for Milk Street livestream workshops are non-refundable. If you find yourself unable to attend, you may transfer the ticket to someone else, but we are unable to refund fees and all payments are final.

Proceeds from live stream cooking classes and workshops support Milk Street's non-profit work with The Big Sisters Association of Great Boston, The Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester, and other partners.

Bonus: All attendees of this class will receive a one-time 15% off coupon to the Milk Street Store after class.