Matthews Cotswold Flour, one of the UK's oldest yet most innovative family-run flour mills, is delighted to launch a brand new Sourdough Kit, packed with everything a home baker needs to make fantastic sourdough every time. The kit includes five different types of premium bread flours from Matthews Cotswold Flour's unrivalled range of speciality flour, eight high quality baking tools and accessories chosen by Elaine Boddy, master sourdough maker and founder of foodbod Sourdough, plus a set of invaluable recipe cards with detailed instructions on how to make sourdough starters and delicious loaves. The new Sourdough Kit is available from www.fwpmatthews.co.uk RRP £59.95 and is a must have for sourdough supremos and first time bakers alike.

Bertie Matthews, the dynamic young Managing Director of Matthews Cotswold Flour comments: “Matthews Cotswold Flour is a family business that has been trading grain and milling flour in the heart of the Cotswolds since the 1800s. We work closely with a team of artisan bakers and listen carefully to our customers. In response to their unabated passion for sourdough, Elaine and I decided to create this new kit which includes everything a sourdough baker needs.”

Elaine, expert sourdough baker, adds: “I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Bertie to curate this fabulous Sourdough Kit. Whether you are new to sourdough, or already a sourdough baker, you will love it. We have handpicked five varieties of Matthews Cotswold Flour, all perfect for making sourdough, and I have created five recipes, plus a guide to making a sourdough starter with two different flour options, especially for the box. Added to that, you'll find a collection of tried and tested equipment chosen by me that you can use for making these recipes and then use time and time again for other recipes too.”

Matthews Cotswold Flour's New Sourdough Kit £59.95 from www.fwpmatthews.co.uk 

The new Sourdough Kit includes:

• 1.5kg bags of the following Matthews Cotswold Flour: Churchill Strong White Bread Flour, White Spelt, Stoneground Dark Rye, Stoneground Wholemeal Flour, Cotswold Crunch
• The following high quality baking tools and accessories: a dough knife, Eco Baker jar, Banneton, Tea Towel, Loaf Tin, Bowl Scraper, Bread Shower Cap, Matthews Cotswold Flour Apron
•  Five bespoke recipe cards for yummy sourdough loaves using each flour in the box plus instructions for a bubbly sourdough starter, all created especially for Matthews Cotswold Flour by Elaine Foodbod.

Matthews Cotswold Flour's mission is to lead the transformation of the speciality baking products market into the 21st century and they aim to achieve this through supporting sustainable food sources and developing products that enhance nutrition, taste, understanding and experience.

For more information on Matthews Cotswold Flour visit www.fwpmatthews.co.uk and follow @cotswold flour on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. For more recipes and sourdough inspiration visit foodbodsourdough.com and follow elaine_foodbod on Instagram.

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Editor's Notes

The Five Matthews Cotswold Flours Contained in the Sourdough Kit

Churchill Strong White Bread Flour

Matthews Churchill strong white bread flour is an extra strong high protein bread flour. Finely milled from a blend of high protein hard wheat sourced between Cotswold village of Churchill and Blenheim Palace. This flour encourages beautiful gluten development and easy kneading and shaping. It contains a 12.8% protein which supports the rise and structure of your bread. Perfect for hand and bread machines. Blend with Stoneground wholemeal flour for a richer, more complex flavour.

White Spelt Flour

Rich in flavour, spelt is superb for bread making and speciality pastry. It's stripped from its coarse outer layer to end with a smooth white flour and is a great healthy option with it being easier to digest rather than normal flours.

Cotswold Stoneground White Spelt 

This flour is a smooth white flour milled from UK grown ancient grain spelt. Spelt is a highly nutritious and healthy option, compared to wheat, it is packed full of fibre. Cotswold Spelt is a perfect all-purpose healthy baking flour that combined with Strong White flour, produces delicious loaves.

Stoneground Dark Rye Flour

Cotswold Stoneground Dark Rye flour is a wholemeal Rye flour used to produce delicious rye breads and with a dark dense character. Produced from local Cotswold Rye grain the texture of the flour is a dark greige colour creating a denser bread than used from wheat flour. This flour is also available in light rye.

Combine with a sourdough starter to make the perfect Rye Sourdough. Or looking for something less dense? Combine with Spelt or our strong white bread flour.

Stoneground Wholemeal Flour

Strong Stoneground Wholemeal – a strong wholemeal flour, which has been stoneground to create a wonderfully wholesome flour perfect for wholemeal breads.

Traditionally stone ground milled wholemeal strong bread flour. Milled using a blend of high protein hard Canadian wheat highly regarded for its superior milling and baking quality. One of the oldest types of bread flour, wholemeal flour keeps a higher amount of the nutritious value of grain than other flours.

Cotswold Crunch Flour

Cotswold Crunch, a speciality blend of strong white flour, malted wheat flakes and malt flour for bread and rolls. This flour is extremely popular due to its flavoursome, malty aroma with added texture from the wheat flakes. Did you know? The history behind this type of flour supposedly goes back to Benedictine Monks of Burton Abbey. They were said to have accidentally discovered, while experimenting with a brewing method, that malted wheat flakes improved the flavour of their bread enormously! What we can tell you is that Cotswold Crunch makes a delicious loaf.

Family Business: With a milling legacy spanning eight generations, Matthews Cotswold Flour is one of the UK's oldest family-run flour mills. Trading grain and milling flour in the heart of the Cotswolds since the 1800s, the mill believes passionately that their local partnerships, traditional stoneground milling methods and premium grains make for better baking. They are proud to offer premium quality Organic and Stoneground Wholegrain flour, using grain from local farmers and time-honoured milling techniques.

Regenerative Farming: Through their local “Cotswold Grain Partnership” and a system of fair trade pricing, Matthews Cotswold Flour works with farmers to grow in a sustainable way that protects the soil and develops wildlife. By giving back some profits to the farmers Cotswold Flour is able to support new regenerative farming practices.suggests.

Product Range: Matthews Cotswold Flour's range of over 30 different blends providing an unrivalled choice of unique artisan flours for both amateur and professional bakers. Matthews Cotswold Flour has over 100 years of experience which they have combined with a 'start up' mentality to put them at the forefront of speciality flour. Matthews Cotswold Flour supplies its ever-expanding range of flours to professional and home bakers through its online shop and retail and wholesale outlets. 

Award Winning Products: Matthews Cotswold Flour boasts a host of awards for many of the products in its outstanding range of flour.

For more information, an interview with Bertie Matthews, recipes and images please contact Kath Hope at kath@rawfoodanddrinkpr.co.uk or 07515632089.