Sandwich board. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0
The Scottish Bread Championship 2025
Entries open until 6 February.
Calling all professional and hobby Real Bread bakers in Scotland! Online entries for The Scottish Bread Championship are now open.
Created in 2017, the Championship remains the only major awards to set the Real Bread Campaign’s definition as a minimum criterion across all categories.
Judging will take place during Real Bread Week, with products to be delivered to Bowhouse in Fife on Friday 14 February for tasting. The winners will be announced at The Scottish Festival of Real Bread on the following day at the same venue.
You can find full details and entry form (£5 per product) on The Edinburgh Bakers’ Trust website.
Categories
- Classic sourdough bread: genuine sourdough, made using only flour, water and salt.
- Enriched sourdough bread: genuine sourdough with enrichment / inclusions: butter, fruits, seeds, fruit etc. Can be sweet or savoury.
- Great Scot!* Bread made in Scotland from grain grown and milled in Scotland.*
- Breads reflecting Scotland’s food culture: for example made with historic grains and/or reflecting local or international traditions and influences and traditions.
- A bread excelling in nutritional quality: nutritional information to be supplied in the entry.
- True loaf: made with love for your family and community. Specially for this year, as judging takes place on Valentine’s Day.
- Sourdough pastries: sweet and savoury vienoisserie and pastries (such as croissants and ‘Danish’ pastries) made by the sourdough process – no baker’s yeast or chemical raising agents.
- The People’s Bread: made to Scotland The Bread’s People’s Bread standard for a well-fermented loaf, made with a high proportion of organic, Scottish-grown and milled grain, aimed at producing a nutritious, affordable and accessible bread for everybody.
Judges will also award a Supreme Champion and a Reserve Champion, selected from the bread (not pastries) categories.
About
The Scottish Bread Championship is run and sponsored by Scotland The Bread and Scottish Food Guide, with support from The Edinburgh Bakers Trust.
The founders, Andrew Whitley and Wendy Barrie, say: 'The Championship might be a competition but it’s also a celebration. We’d like to encourage you to work towards submitting your best loaf, not necessarily trying to beat everyone else’s, and are here to support everyone towards the ultimate result – baking the loaf you want.'
They add: 'our grateful thanks to our friends, families and colleagues who give their time and enthusiasm to help us on the days. They do this on a purely voluntary basis and we really appreciate it.’
*Not actually called this but Chris from the Real Bread Campaign thinks it should be.
See also
Real Bread Campaign: The Real Bread Campaign finds and shares ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet. Whether your interest is local food, community-focussed small enterprises, honest labelling, therapeutic baking, or simply tasty toast, everyone is invited to become a Campaign supporter.
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