Saint Paul Bread Club
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08-22-2008
2008 State Fair Winners (as best I know them)
Lot 035, Challah, honey food products
1st place Marlin Pierson
4th place Ron Miller
Lot 046, Carrot Cake
3rd place Martha DeHaven
Lot 056, Pecan pie
5th place Martha DeHaven
Lot 1001, Bread, white
4th place William Middeke
Lot 1003, Bread, whole wheat
5th place John Perhay
Lot 1008, Bread, not otherwise specified
5th place John Perhay
Congratulations.
08-21-2008
The first of the SPBC photo galleries is now on-line. Look below for the link.
08-01-2008
The October 25 meeting will be a joint meeting with Slow Food Minnesota. We will still be running stations (for which we still need volunteers), but we will also be making pizzas again (unless we wind up changing plans). But the date is confirmed and solves some problems for Klecko. SFMN and SPBC should both be happy.
The Bread Baker Biographies are back. Look below for the link. (Volunteers for additional biographies are welcome, no matter how long you have belonged to the SPBC or how much experience with bread baking you have.
Bake-Off Results in process (sorry it’s taking me so long), but a new link to the history of the bake-offs appears below.
Other Links:
Home of the Saint Paul Bread Club (SPBC)
This is the new web site of the Saint Paul Bread Club.
It’s been reorganized to try to make the contents more accessible and easier to maintain. The rework is not completed yet, but I’m adding new content as I have time.
About the SPBC
Membership in the club is free and open to anyone interested in bread. Bread bakers with any level of experience are welcome. The SPBC charges no fees or dues. We are always looking for volunteers to work in the interest of the club.
Dan “Klecko” McGleno founded the Saint Paul Bread Club in 2003 to share his knowledge of breads and baking with home bread bakers. Our first year we met in the Community Room of the Mississippi Market Co-op.
We are the largest bread club we know of. (We have been as high as first place on Google if you search for “bread club”.)
Meetings
Quarterly Meetings - The bread club meets approximately quarterly at the St. Agnes Baking Co., 644 Olive St. in downtown Saint Paul, two blocks east of I-35E and just north of University Avenue.
Monthly Meetings - The bread club also has subgroups that meet approximately monthly around the Twin Cities area. (We call these subgroups slices and we often refer to these subgroup meetings as slice meetings.)
Use the FUTURE MEETINGS AND EVENTS tab above to see the schedule for future meetings and other SPBC-related events.
On-Line Forum
If you can’t get to a quarterly meeting or one of the monthly meetings (or you live out of town), you can still participate with bread club members by joining and contributing to the on-line forum (there’s a link to it on the right).
Other Bread Clubs
If you know about any other bread clubs, we would be overjoyed to know about them. Please send e-mail to me and I’ll add the other club’s information to our list.
If you would like to start your own bread club, we would be glad to be of any help we can. Please send e-mail to me and I’ll help you however we can. (Klecko wrote a chapter about forming your own bread club in the cookbook that is very useful.)
Ovens
We are on a Quest for Ovens. Members of the bread club have baked at ovens in Historical Ft. Snelling, and participated in building a clay oven at Gale Woods Farm Park.
We are especially interested in hearing about ovens where members of the community can come and bake. Please let me know if you are aware of any brick or clay ovens in operation, but especially ones where we can bake.