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The Healthiest Bread in the World: Science-Backed Baking for a Better Gut Heath

Vanessa Kimbell is a time-served baker who specialises in gut health and trained in the art of sourdough bread in the Dordogne. A bestselling author, she holds a doctorate in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine and Preventative Health and is a member of BANT. Vanessa combines deep expertise in sourdough with unparalleled knowledge of the science of bread and digestion. At The Sourdough School, she teaches personalised artisan bread tailored to optimise gut health and genetics. Discover healthy bread recipes, tips, and techniques featuring sourdough fermentation, wholegrain benefits, and personalised baking advice—designed to inspire a slower, healthier approach to baking, eating, and sharing bread.

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Sourdough Boule Baking Kit & Voucher

£99

We have put together this ‘Sourdough Boule Baking Kit’ with all of our favourite and most important items so you can learn to bake beautiful and nutritious diversity sourdough boules. This can be purchased as an essential kit either for yourself or as a gift for someone else.

This sourdough baking kit includes the following items:

  • The Sourdough School recipe book by Vanessa Kimbell
  • 1kg bag of Marriages organic strong white flour
  • 1.5kg bag of Diversity Blend No.0+ Wholemeal Flour – our very own diversity blend flour, ready for you to add your own local or seasonal dried botanicals to
  • Dough scraper – for transferring your dough
  • Challenger Dough Knife – for shaping your dough
  • 1kg lined wicker banneton – for proving your dough
  • 100g bag of Sourdough School Unrefined Sea Salt
  • Digital folding thermometer – to maintain the required temperature for your dough
  • Lame – for scoring your dough
  • 5 Sourdough Cards – White Sourdough Starter, Loaf Schedule, Loaf Record Form, Basic Sourdough Boule Recipe, Flavour Wheel
  • £99 e-voucher to put towards joining the Sourdough Club 12-Month Community Membership

Do I need a cloche/bread pan too?

That is entirely up to you at this stage. But so that you can decide for yourself, we have given you the option before checkout to add our Sourdough School Netherton Spun Iron Cloche, or the Challenger Bread Pan to your kit.

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Our ‘Sourdough Boule Baking Kit’ is ideal for all sourdough bakers, especially beginners who need to get their sourdough baking tools together. It contains everything you need to begin to bake healthy and nutritious diversity sourdough boules.

This kit includes Vanessa Kimbell’s The Sourdough School recipe book, plus a beautiful artisan printed Basic Boule Recipe card. It is the perfect accompaniment to all of the sourdough boule recipes in Vanessa’s other recipe books and on The Sourdough Club. Free for all to use on The Sourdough School website is our Sourdough Boule Recipe.

This kit can, of course, be purchased as an essential sourdough baking kit for yourself or as a gift for someone else.

This sourdough baking kit comes with a £99 coupon that can be used to join the Club! Your coupon gives you or a loved one £99 off our Sourdough Club 12-Month Gold Community Membership.

There are lots of questions that people ask about our sourdough kits, and we will be answering these in the tabs below; please refer to these for many more details regarding delivery, returns and exactly who delivers your kit.

Bread can harm or it can heal. Bread and baked goods make up the top three of the largest proportions of our daily calorie consumption. It is impossible to ignore the impact of bread and baked goods on our health and wellness, and yet bread is possibly the most misunderstood of our most basic foods. If bread is a staple food in most households in the UK, why are so many of us content to eat low-quality, highly processed bread that denies our bodies essential fibre and nutrients? Fermenting and baking your own bread is the best way to ensure you are eating high-quality bread that is not only nutritious, but also delicious!

The beautiful thing about sourdough bread is that it’s made with only three simple ingredients: flour, water and salt! However, to make incredible sourdough bread at home, you’re going to need a few bits of kit. What’s a workman without his tools?

When you start baking sourdough, there is so much to learn.  The very first thing is to learn a rhythm, and to recognise what good, robust fermentation looks like. Enjoy getting into the rhythm of the baking schedule, understanding how important temperature and timing are, and learning the basic principles of flour.

This kit comes with a very special flour, our Diversity Blend 0+ flour, part of our Botanical Blend range. With 10+ ingredients grown in the UK, it provides diversity for your gut and an incredible flavour profile for your bakes. It is designed to be used instead of wholemeal flour. It is so much more than just flour.

Whether you want to learn to bake sourdough yourself or are looking for a gift for a food-loving friend, our kits and courses are a great place to start. We are giving you everything you need to get into the kitchen and start baking!

What about a fresh white sourdough starter?

Our White Starter Kit & Course is here should you need to also order a white sourdough starter. We don’t include one in this kit because fresh starters need to be sent by priority/next-day delivery.

Not a member of The Sourdough Club yet?

You can view our membership options here and join.

Please note: if you are ordering from abroad, please do check our ‘Delivery’ tab below, especially the customs information.

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Todays live for diploma students will be on 'How t Todays live for diploma students will be on 'How to engage your patient in the lifestyle changes of the BALM' with @vanessakimbell 

In their 6pm live session, we help keep our students on track with the syllabus and discuss the application of Baking As Lifestyle Medicine to the 6 pillars of Lifestyle medicine, applying the research papers, application of the Research, and how this ties into prescribing, along with guest lecturers, discussions and sharing knowledge.

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BAKE, ANALYSE, EAT; RECALIBRATE & REPEAT. 📆 Th BAKE, ANALYSE, EAT; RECALIBRATE & REPEAT.

📆 The Sourdough School Clinic - Thursdays 8pm - for students of The Sourdough School 

✏️ In this weekly live session, we cover technical baking questions. Students can submit their Baking Record Sheets in advance of the session.

📋 We look at the details of our student's bakes - the specifics of the flour, timings and temperatures. Using our sourdough record sheets Vanessa will make suggestions on how they might modify, or recalibrate the next time they bake.

Follow the link in the bio to learn more about becoming a student at The Sourdough School 👆

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IBS AWARENESS MONTH Do you suffer from irritable IBS AWARENESS MONTH

Do you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? It can be tough to deal with the uncomfortable symptoms of stomach cramps, constipation, diarrhoea and bloating. But did you know that making dietary changes, such as incorporating sourdough bread into your diet, could help alleviate some of those symptoms?

Studies have shown that sourdough's long, slow fermentation process can reduce IBS symptoms. Plus, during #ibsawarenessmonth, we're exploring how adding different herbs and spices to your sourdough can further improve both the flavour and the digestion of your bread.

Let's talk about gut health, fermentation, and how sourdough can be a delicious and healthy addition to your diet. Join the conversation and share your experiences with IBS and sourdough.

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THE SOURDOUGH SCHOOL – HAND CARVED WOODEN LAME THE SOURDOUGH SCHOOL – HAND CARVED WOODEN LAME

One of the biggest issues around using a plastic lame to score sourdough, of course, is that eventually the blade will become blunt and the lame could end up in landfill.  So several years ago I talked to my dear friend EJ about developing a lame with a replaceable blade. And he came up with this very beautiful hand carved wooden lame.

Very sadly EJ is no longer with us. Recently a friend of EJ’s who is also a wood turner and carver offered to make these again for us in remembrance of our dear friend.

Follow the link in the bio to our shop where you can find our full selection of wooden sourdough tools 👆

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The Baking As Lifestyle Medicine (BALM) Protocol The Baking As Lifestyle Medicine (BALM) Protocol

The current food system is broken at multiple levels, from the pesticides used in our soils to the emulsifiers and additives adulterating industrially-processed foods. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the bread we eat.  The figures reported by the UK Flour Millers say that bread is bought by a staggering “99.8% of British households” and that “the equivalent of nearly 11 million loaves are sold each day. Approximately 60-70% of the bread we eat is white and sandwiches are thought to account for 50% of overall bread consumption. Average bread purchases are the equivalent of 60.3 loaves per person per year.” 

Most bread sold is made by modern processing methods that strip heart-healthy whole grains of their nutrient contents, resulting in low-fibre bread with a high glycemic index. Over time, white processed bread can increase a person’s risk of insulin resistance alongside other lifestyle diseases.

We’re on a mission to revolutionise the bread making process at every level – from soil to slice. The rules governing this are laid out in our Baking As Lifestyle Medicine protocol. 

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