Richard Bertinet
Bread Making
Bake showstopping loaves with the world-renowned 'bread genius' and bestselling author.
This course includes:
What you'll learn
Join Richard as he shares his techniques to perfect the dough and bake with complete confidence.
- Get to grips with bread making fundamentals
- Learn the art of the dough
- Discover the best tools and ingredients
- Perfect the magic of fermentation
- Bake everything from bagels to brioche
- Master the mighty sourdough
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Richard first fell in love with baking as a 14-year-old apprentice in his native Brittany. He moved to England in the late ‘80s, where he has taught his unique and incredible style of baking to some of the greatest chefs in the world. In the early 2000s, Richard founded the Bertinet Kitchen Cookery School and his first book Dough was published to great acclaim, winning awards such as the IACP cookery book of the year, the James Beard Award for Baking and Dessert, and the Julia Child Award for Best First Book. For the first time, Richard is teaching his lifetime of experience and his unique bread-making secrets to you, here on BBC Maestro.
Lesson plan (26)
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01
Bread Making Introduction
02:02
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02
The dough
21:32
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03
Tin loaf & leopard bread
18:36
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04
Baguette
29:35
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05
Pizza
21:55
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06
Tartiflette pizza
09:44
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07
Ciabatta & fougasse
24:54
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08
Focaccia
14:57
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09
Rye bread
16:15
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10
Bagels
19:58
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11
Burger buns
18:32
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12
Brioche
28:16
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13
Challa
20:56
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14
Babka buns
12:46
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15
Green pea & chickpea flatbreads
08:12
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16
Cornbread
06:20
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17
Seeded loaf
05:33
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18
Sourdough: making the ferment
19:38
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19
Sourdough: making the bread
24:57
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20
Sourdough: keeping your ferment going
03:30
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21
Sourdough: freezing or drying the ferment
07:45
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22
Sourdough crackers
04:54
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23
Stollen
32:54
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24
Mince pies
18:40
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25
Bonus lesson: buckwheat blinis
11:10
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26
Au revoir
00:55
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