Baked from 4am · Sold out by 2pm
Long-fermented bread, from four ingredients.
Flour, water, salt, time. Our sourdough proves for thirty-six hours, which is why it keeps a week and why we run out by lunch.
Out of the oven today
Updated each morning. Pre-orders collected before noon.
Country sourdough
36-hour ferment, stone-milled flour from the mill at Ostend. Keeps a week wrapped in linen.
Seeded rye
Dense, sour, and better on the second day. The one the Danish customers buy two of.
Morning pastries
Croissants, pain au chocolat and whatever fruit the market had. Laminated the day before.
From the kitchen
Thirty-six hours, four ingredients
The sourdough starts on Monday afternoon for Wednesday morning. Long ferment is why it keeps a week without anything added, and why we cannot simply bake more when it sells out.
The flour comes from one mill forty kilometres away, stone-milled and delivered weekly. When their wheat changes with the season, our loaf changes with it.
4am
First bake
36h
Sourdough ferment
4
Ingredients in the loaf
1
Mill, 40km away
“I ordered a birthday cake with three days' notice and they asked what she actually liked, rather than showing me a catalogue.”
Marta Ellison
Customer
Opening hours
When we're open
- Tuesday — Friday
- 07:00 — 14:00
- Saturday
- 07:00 — 15:00
- Sunday
- 08:00 — 13:00
- Monday
- Closed
Find us
Where we are
22 Mill Road Marlow SL7 2AJ Buckinghamshire Pre-orders collected before noon. Celebration cakes need a week and a conversation.
Before you visit
Why do you sell out so early?
Because a 36-hour ferment means Wednesday bread was started on Monday. We cannot bake more on the day, so we bake what we can sell fresh.
Can I pre-order?
Until 20:00 the night before, collected from 07:00. It is the only way to be certain of a loaf on a Saturday.
Do you do celebration cakes?
Yes, with a week of notice and a conversation about what the person actually likes rather than a catalogue.
Is anything gluten free?
No, honestly. We use one small room and shared flour in the air, so we cannot promise a safe product and will not pretend otherwise.
Pre-order by 8pm the night before.
Collection from seven. Celebration cakes need a week and a conversation.