🎁 Just In Time For Christmas 🎁

We're kicking off our holiday baking craze at C&C today...for the next ten days, it'll be nothing but bottomless pots of coffee, Christmas radio, and larger-than-life loaves that get decorated to the max! If you're anything like me, you've probably got some serious gift shopping still left to do for your loved ones...here's how we can help you with that:

1. HOLIDAY MICHE

Every year, during Thanksgiving and Christmas only, we make our miches available for purchase. These large traditional French style loaves are made with organic high extraction wheat flour as well as a touch of dark rye, span over a foot in diameter, and weigh in at about 1.6-1.8 kilograms. We naturally leaven them with our sourdough culture, slow ferment them for a couple of days, and hand score each bread to produce a beautiful design on the crust. You can pre-order these until next Thursday through our website for pick up on either 12/22nd or 12/23rd at Artale & Co.

2. BAKING CLASSES

During this past year, we've had the pleasure of welcoming folks from near and far into our kitchen to learn the art of bread baking. Our classes focus on the fundamentals of sourdough and on how to recreate the effects of a commercial oven in the home environment. We teach the process from beginning to end and provide a "bread baking essentials" starter kit for all the participants. Currently, we are offering one class in January and one in February of 2019. 

3. BLIND DATE WITH A BAKER

While this is isn't an actual blind date with one of us (sorry!), it's our version of a Community Supported Bakery program. Our weekly bread shares feature baker's choice loaves and so members never know which type of bread they're going to get. Our CSB has pick up locations on both East and West sides of Rockford. If you have someone who loves good bread and might enjoy the surprise element, this is a good one for them! You'll find more details on how the CSB works at the link above.