Bush Bagels: A Pick-to-Plate Baking Experience

Bake the Classics: A Pick-to-Plate Baking Experience

Spend the day getting your hands in dough, and then the soil, with a hands-on baking and farm experience at Wollemi Ridge.

The day begins with The Bootleg Baker and Bake the Classics: Bagels, Pretzels & the Kraków Obwarzanek, a 2-hour hands-on workshop exploring the history, techniques and traditions behind three of the world’s most iconic breads.

You’ll mix, roll and shape your own dough, learn what to look for in its elasticity and texture, master the all-important boiling process, add traditional toppings and bake together as a group.

Along the way, you’ll discover the differences between the humble bagel, the German pretzel and Poland’s Kraków Obwarzanek — a centuries-old ring-shaped bread that most Australians rarely get the chance to try.

Once the baking is done, we head to Harvest Farms.

With your freshly baked bagels ready and waiting, you’ll explore what’s growing on the farm and harvest fresh, seasonal produce to create your own fillings and accompaniments. What ends up on your plate will be guided by what’s growing and ready to pick on the day.

Then we bring it all together for a relaxed pick-to-plate feast, pairing your handmade bagels with produce you’ve just harvested from the farm.

Expect floury hands, fresh food, a little dirt under your nails and a day that takes you through the whole process.

You’ll also leave with a fresh batch of your own handmade bakes to take home.

Saturday 3 October | Wollemi Ridge, Bilpin