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title: "Bread & Fire  | Baking wood-fired bread to legends and stories"
url: "https://www.erschmatt.ch/en/events/bread-fire/"
description: Making Valais rye bread according to an old tradition, telling stories of Valais legends and taking home a homemade sourdough bread from the wood-fired oven.
image: "https://www.erschmatt.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/4/5/csm_Brot_und_Feuer_27a22832c7.jpg"
date: 2022-02-11
modified: 2025-03-17
lastUpdated: 2025-03-17
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# Bread & Fire  | Baking wood-fired bread to legends and stories

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  Bread & Fire
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#### In the historic bakery knead and form sour dough into loaves.

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    ![](https://www.erschmatt.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/4/5/csm_Brot_und_Feuer_9c247204a5.jpg)  You will be entranced by the secrets of Valais legends while the break bakes in the oven. The experience concludes with a fine meal in Erschmatt's Roggenstube restaurant and can take your bread home when you leave. For young and old.

 ##### Details

- Making dough, kneading, making bread under expert guidance
- Baking apron provided
- Valais legends and history from a narrator in the communal room
- Short tour through Erschmatt, experience the historic rye bread culture
- Aperitif at the Hoher Spycher
- 1 self-baked rye bread loaf from original sour dough
- 3-course evening meal in the Roggenstube restaurant

 ##### General information

- The trip can be made by public transport. Bus ticket and return taxi 10 CHF per person, paid separately
- Connection from SBB Leuk in the direction of Brig at 21:30
- Each participant obtains own insurance
- Minimum number: 6 participants
- Number of participants restricted because of COVID-19

 ##### Price

85 CHF per person

 ##### Meeting point

Bus terminal Erschmatt, Dorf

 ##### Information and sign-ups

On the day before by 10.00 a.m.

Leuk Tourismus
 <info@leuktourismus.ch>
 [027 473 10 94](tel:+41274731094)

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##### Date

- Mar 26 2022

    **Start:** 17:15

    **End:** 21:00

  Location Busstation Erschmatt, Dorf 3957 Erschmatt

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