Description
A ruined loaf teaches more than a perfect one, provided somebody asks the student why it failed. That question is the backbone of this course.
This self-paced high school baking course uses The King Arthur Baking Company Baking School: Lessons and Recipes for Every Baker as its source text, and the work happens in your own kitchen. Fifteen modules move from measuring and tools through basic bread, sweet bread, butter pie crust, lemon shortbread, snickerdoodles, chocolate and yellow cake, sugar cookie cutouts with royal icing, sourdough starter and discard bakes, crusty sourdough, two-crust pie, ciabatta, bagels or pretzels, and a final bake of the student’s own choosing.
Every bake is photographed, uploaded and written up on a bake summary worksheet. Mrs. Tamara Pool grades the thinking as much as the result: when a bake goes wrong, can the student name what happened and say how to remedy it next time?
Tamara Pool holds an M.A. in The Great Books from Memoria College and has advised True North families since 2020.
Class details
– Teacher: Tamara Pool
– Term: full-year course, Summer 2027–Fall 2027 or Fall 2027–Spring 2028; 15 modules
– Grades: high school
– Credit: one credit
– Materials: Baking School by King Arthur; digital scale, dough scraper, bench knife, sheet pans and basic ingredients; a camera
– Self-paced and online; students work on their own schedule
Enroll and we will handle the grading and the transcript. True North Academy is Cognia-accredited.
This is a full-year course. Choose your year at checkout — Summer 2027–Fall 2027 or Fall 2027–Spring 2028 — and your student is expected to begin and finish the course within the year selected. Work at your own pace inside that year.
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