The loaf on the table when you arrive.
Baked in the kitchen at Ocean Front Guest House, Nanoose Bay
Country Classic. Flour, water, salt and time. Anyone can order a loaf through the same form guests use.
Baked in the kitchen that looks at the beach.
The sourdough at Ocean Front Guest House is the loaf that goes on the table when guests arrive. We bake it in the kitchen of the house on the walk-on beach in Nanoose Bay, on the peninsula between Nanaimo and Parksville.
It is not a bakery. It is the same bread the house is stocked with: a starter nurtured for years, shaped by hand, baked in small batches. Flour, water, salt and time.
Guests eat it looking out at the Strait of Georgia, usually with the honey we harvest and the jam we make. Parksville is the closest town for groceries. The bread does not come from there. It comes out of this oven, in this house.
The starter lives in this kitchen. It has for years. We feed it, we bake from it, and the loaf that comes off the stone is the one on the table at check-in.
Anyone on Vancouver Island can order one. Use the same contact form guests use to enquire about the house. Write sourdough in the message. We reply with availability times.
- Starter Nurtured for years
- Batch Small, shaped by hand
- Where The kitchen in the house, Nanoose Bay
- For Guests, and anyone who asks
The Country Classic.
One loaf today
The nav says Breads & More. What we bake today is one loaf. Eighty percent organic white flour, twenty percent organic whole wheat. It ferments slowly, twelve to forty-eight hours, which is why it tastes like itself and not like a bag from the store.
A short ferment would be easier. We do not do that. The crust is thick, the crumb has a chew, and there is a tang you only get when the starter has had the night.
- Loaf
- Country Classic
- Flour
- 80% organic white, 20% organic whole wheat
- Ferment
- Slow, 12 to 48 hours. Flour, water, salt and time.
- Keeps
- Best within 1 to 2 days, while the crust is still a crust.
- Store
- Paper bag or bread box. Plastic makes it soft.
- Freeze
- Slice first. Toast the slices from frozen.
Order a loaf. Say sourdough in the message.
Use the contact form. Write sourdough in the message and we reply with availability times.