knead for change

knead for change knead for change aims to tackle food insecurity a loaf at a time, based in the north east of england

17/07/2024

Hey all!

Just a quick one to say we're winding down operations at the moment in preparation for my upcoming spinal surgery. Recovery should (fingers crossed) be a couple of months so I'll drop another update here closer to that time.

Any spare (non shelf stable) stock will be donated, but please could any regular cash donors cancel any direct debits or standing orders? I'll confirm this is a DM to any donor's too.

Thank you so much for all of your ongoing support, and I'll see you all on the other side!

Fran x

Big big thank you to our regular donators, thanks to you it means when the food bank is low on stocks we're able to dona...
06/05/2024

Big big thank you to our regular donators, thanks to you it means when the food bank is low on stocks we're able to donate essentials as and when they're needed.

If you're local to Gateshead/Newcastle and think you may have any IN DATE and SEALED long life foods going spare in your cupboards (rice, tinned veg/pulses, pasta, UHT milk, biscuits, tea/coffee) please drop me a message and I'm happy to collect them from you to donate ❤️

08/03/2024

Listen up my fellow bread enthusiasts!

ALL I'm saying is once you find a base foccacia recipie that you get on with, you can pretty much make any type of bread with it - it's just about how to treat your base dough after mixing.

After your stretch and folds - at the point you would usually turn your dough onto an oiled tray to dimple with oil, skip this step and coat with flour and shape into 6 rounds, give them 30-40 mins to rise a little more before baking in a ripping hot oven for about 15 mins.

You are now the proud owner of 6 fluffy rolls! This also works with baking in a loaf tin to get a sandwich loaf, as well as to make ciabatta style bread!

It's been a verrrrrry busy weekend preparing and proofing various different doughs at staggered times (not an easy feat ...
11/02/2024

It's been a verrrrrry busy weekend preparing and proofing various different doughs at staggered times (not an easy feat when you're bad at maths like me!)

A friend asked if I could bake them a seeded loaf and I confidently agreed despite never having made any seeded bread before 😂 so today I tested out a recipe I'd found for a no knead seeded cob and it was incredibly easy! I don't think I did bad for a first timer!

Up in the early hours tomorrow to repeat the whole process and bake everything fresh for those who've put orders in this week - thank you all you absolute legends ❤️

We have some new flavours on the block..Blueberry & Lemon 🍋 🫐Salted Caramel and Banana 🍌 Both topped with golden brown c...
22/01/2024

We have some new flavours on the block..

Blueberry & Lemon 🍋 🫐
Salted Caramel and Banana 🍌

Both topped with golden brown caster sugar, for a little crunch - stunning!

Shout out to our amazing friend Emily for donating a big ol' 16kg bag of flour!! You'd think this would last a lifetime ...
22/01/2024

Shout out to our amazing friend Emily for donating a big ol' 16kg bag of flour!!

You'd think this would last a lifetime but actually more like 32 loaves at the rate we're going, we fly through the stuff!

Forget sugar daddies, we'll take a flour daddy any day of the week 😉

Couldn't help but share a pic of this stunnnnnning foccacia I made in preparation for the festivities! This one is our r...
24/12/2023

Couldn't help but share a pic of this stunnnnnning foccacia I made in preparation for the festivities!

This one is our regular foccacia base with cocoa powder and chunks of dark chocolate added during the stretch-and-fold process.

Before baking I added golden caster sugar for some crunch, and finally after baking topped with a milky chocolate ganache

Cannot wait to demolish this one 🤤

New in...The Woodman! We haven't had a chance to properly introduce our new festive flavour until now, imagined up by th...
05/12/2023

New in...The Woodman! We haven't had a chance to properly introduce our new festive flavour until now, imagined up by the lovely for our recent competition!

For this one we candied clementine peels in a sugar syrup, and kept the leftover syrup for later. Then into our classic dimpled foccacia base we added dried cranberries and fresh rosemary. A few minutes before it was fully baked we soaked the bread in the clementine simple syrup and topped with the candied peels.

Trust us when we say the whole house smells DIVINE! Cheers again for the absolutely killer suggestion Danielle, you nailed it!

We've been having a little play around in the kitchen the past few days with the view of expanding our range somewhat. W...
30/11/2023

We've been having a little play around in the kitchen the past few days with the view of expanding our range somewhat. We've had a lot of requests for less oily breads (sorry foccacia fans!) so we decided to tweak our OG foccacia recipe and come up with something a little different..

Introducing our new artisan sub rolls!

Don't let the golden exterior fool you, these are an absolute dream - pillowy soft with a delicious firm outer crust. These will be sold as 4x large sub rolls (as seen in picture) OR as 8x smaller sandwich rolls.

When not a whole lot seems to be going to plan, you can always rely on flour, yeast and water to give you something beau...
28/11/2023

When not a whole lot seems to be going to plan, you can always rely on flour, yeast and water to give you something beautiful!

26/11/2023

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our Festive Foccacia Competition, we had some amazing entries - some weird and some wonderful 😂

Overall we had 3 suggestions on our previous post which all had the same amount of likes, so we thought it was only fair to randomly select a winner from the 3 most popular flavours.

The top three flavours were...

Vegan Bacon and Chesnut
Vegan Wensleydale and Cranberry
Rosemary, Clementine and Cranberry

Congratulations to Danielle Woodman, you're the winner of our Festive Foccacia Competition and now have credit with us for your month of free foccacia!

Keep your eyes peeled for our new festive flavour - The Woodman! A delicious Christmassy mix of fresh Rosemary, Clementine and Cranberry dimpled in to our gorgeous fresh foccacia dough 🤤💕

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