Artisan breads
Sourdough breads baked by hand with certified organic heritage grain sourced direct from local farmers and stone-ground in our West Berkshire bakery.
Est. 1983
Our breads are shaped and baked by hand producing a rustic loaf full of character. Using only natural ingredients, everything organic, creates superb texture and flavour in our bread. There are no additives, no factory processes and no shortcuts in what we bake.
Astons Bakehouse is a wholesale artisan baker supplying organic food retailers, restaurants and community markets with quality hand baked breads.
Founded in 1983 and based in rural West Berkshire, we pride ourselves on baking only 100% Organic breads and pastries
Our partners, whether high street health food shops, organic farm shops, city markets or forward thinking restaurants, all appreciate our transparency, our “by hand” philosophy and our passion for adding value to their enterprise.
Our customers, the consumer, value the lack of additives, preservatives or cost cutting products in our bread. Our bread is made with flour, water and salt.
“Syd and his team try to make the business as ethically sound as possible: no artificial additives, the use of fossil fuels kept to a minimum, recycled packaging, and nothing hidden from the customers - right down to the sunflower oil used to line the bread tins.”
— Rick Stein, Food Heroes
Our Paragon grain is sourced from Eastbrook Farm in Wiltshire and then stone ground in our traditional mill in the bakery.
The advantage of the Paragon grain milled in this way is that it contains none of the statutory addiditives and enzymes associated with mass produced flour – added calcium carbonate, iron, thiamin and nicotinic acid. By law these additives need to be suplemented by millers because white mass-produced flour is very highly processed, ground at high speeds and subjected to excessive heat which depletes these substances during production.
Our grain is gently ground between stones, temperature is kept to a minimum so that these vital ingredients are preserved and retained naturally in the flour. Some of the natural bran and wheat germ is retained, even in our white flour, adding flavour and texture.
Our products are all Demeter certified, a very strict set of organic and biodynamic standards.
Our Breads are Certified Organic and BioDynamic
About us.
We are a small team, all of us are passionate about our bread, the business and maintaining an ethical and environmental approach to everything we do.
