A DAY AT THE CHANTEAU

Come and learn how to bake sourdough bread
in an authentic bread ovenoven !

2011, Sundays,

3th of april, 8th of may,19th of june , 24th of july, 28th august, 18th september ou 16th october

NEW! OPEN DOORS

from July 15st to 1st of September,

on Thursday from 5.30 pm to 7 pm

Come and stay as long as the bread is baking in the peasant ovenof the tradional house of haute Marne. Put the bread in the oven and take it out and....if it smells good, go back home with your leavened bread, baked as it was in time gone by.

With Marie-Pierre from " Gens de pays, Guides de Terroirs", you will learn all along the day, the art of the sourdough bread making and bake it in a traditional wood oven. You'll understand how benefical for your health is organic flour and natural sourdough.

You’ll see practices from the old time that might sound like some of the daily realities

Sourdough Bread
Knead with the hands
Baked in traditional oven
In a room dedicated to the bread baking…
An ancestral knowledge…

To see a day
to the chanteau
Click here.

Spend some time
around the oven,
where the flavour of shared
bread has no equal.

3 animations will be offered to you, fitted to your needs and requests.

Open from April, every first weekend of the month: you just have to book by e-mail or phone.
For full groups: on reservation – weekend or weekday-

At the rythm of the bread, living matter, every day follows the same schedule:
hand kneading of the dough - first rise- shaping - second rise – heating up the oven – Washing the oven – putting the bread into the oven – baking - Take the bread out of the oven - Go back home with an awesome bread to eat!

ADULTS

CHILDREN

5 persons minimum per Day
45 euros
Rural food and farm produce tasting
For the traditional mid-afternoon snack : “croissants”!
You ll take your own breads at home!

15 person’s minimum
17 euros
At least 2 generations
Snack: cheese, dried sausage…

You ll have to provide your own picnic

15 children minimum
10 euros
Snack : bread and homemade jam
Take your own picnic with you
Each child will go back home with his own bread

During the rises of the dough, we will talk about the making of surdought... and the way to build a bread oven

During the rises of the dough, we’ll choose all together some activities that fit for the majority: cooking or handcraft. However, activities will be chosen in order to be interactive between generations.

You provide your own food but a snack will be given to you

During the rises of the dough, we will do some workshops around themes like: flour, oven, 'salt dough modelling' …
The children will go home with a handbook summarising the themes of the day (the 5 senses and the 4 elements).

Please, bring your lunch. A snack will be given.

Organic meal make by

- Martial Grossetête of Cintrey(70)