OCTOBER 27, 2023: Pizza Date Night

Come make Franco-German pizza with Katya Lyukum! Bring a friend or partner and expand your pizza repertoire with this traditionally wood-fired flatbread.

Known as Tarte Flambée in France and as Flammkuchen in Germany, this pizza dish has humble origins as a sacrificial flatbread used by Alsatian farmers and bread-bakers to test the temperature of their wood-fired bread ovens. While still best enjoyed hot out of a pizza oven, today's Flammkuchen can be ordered at restaurants or made at home in your oven, and often features dressed-up ingredients like crème fraîche, lardons, and delicate alliums like shallots or leeks. 

During class, you will learn to make this unique pizza dough from scratch, incorporating both sifted and whole wheat varietals for maximum flavor and texture. Katya will walk you through the ideal preparation methods for the characteristic creme fraîche-based white sauce, lightly caramelized leeks, and cured pork or mushroom addition, until we're all ready to fire off our pizzas and enjoy.

Beginners are welcome, and encouraged to attend.

Things to look forward to:

• Have an opportunity to work with our own fresh flours, stone-milled right here at Barton Springs Mill

• Learn tips and tricks for making pizza doughs that incorporate whole wheat flour

• Eat & take home fresh-out-the-oven pizza!

• Tour the mill with our Education Director, Kimberly Krebs

• Purchase BSM products at a 15% discount

Class Policies:

By purchasing these class tickets, you acknowledge and agree to our Participant Class Policies and Media Release Form. Close-toed shoes and a head covering (such as a baseball cap) required for all classes.

Touring our facility requires that all participants adhere to health guidelines - all touring participants (included in ticket) will be required to remove most jewelry and piercings, and wear a beard net (if applicable) and/or hair net. Close-toed shoes are required for entering any part of our facility. 

In keeping with low COVID risk level in Travis County, masks are optional and up to personal discretion for this class. Should COVID levels rise in the weeks/days leading up to class, we reserve the right to change our masking policy and will reach out via email with any updated guidelines. Should masks become a requirement for class based on statewide or countywide recommendations, non-masked participants will not be able to participate in mask-required classes. Refunds or ticket transfers are available for those who do not wish to attend a mask-required class.

Tickets are non-refundable, but transferrable up to 5 days before the class date.

In the event of class cancellation, we will email you to notify you of a canceled class.