Foccacia Sesame seed covered bread sticks ready to be baked. Sour dough after kneading, ready for shaping. Hot Cross buns, bread sticks, sourdough and yeast buns, foccacia, pretty flowers. French St. Plum Jam On a blustery Saturday afternoon in Hawkes Bay, a friend and I set off to attend a bread making workshop at the Farmhouse Kitchen just out of Havelock North village. We were both pretty keen to learn how to make sourdough bread, which we did, but also to brush up our basic bread making skills. Pauline taught our small, eager group how to make all of the above breads ( lots of handy hints) with her husband Chris teaching us all about the sourdough and most importantly how to get the sourdough starter started! We even came home with a small jar of the starter to feed and nurture now knowing that a good starter is the key to good sourdough bread. I loved it all and felt I was like a slightly annoying child wanting to be part of every little thing - read: ve...
