Farmhouse Cookery

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This full day ‘one to one’ session (or two friends/family) offers a unique opportunity to enjoy personalised tuition within a fun and inspiring environment. Following your 1:1 class, Lisa actively encourages you to keep in touch with any cookery questions. Delivery is made using 2nd Class Royal Mail, Parcel Force or courier dependant on the parcel size and weight. Please anticipate 2-3 working days during normal circumstances but these times may be extended at busy periods and due to circumstances beyond our control such as peak demand, weather or pandemic. Not at all! If you prefer to spend the day reading beside the fire, or relaxed in the garden during the warmer months, that is absolutely fine with us. We will need to chat through the class content with the gift recipient prior to your stay and if you give us a steer on your favourite activities, we can make a list of suggestions for you to consider. However, when you return home, to ensure harmony in the kitchen, even if one of you just uses the AGA to boil a kettle, we suggest that everyone in your household becomes familiar with the differences and benefits of cooking beside a heat storage stove. We are considering a full day class but are wondering how much actual cookery will we do?

If you are staying at the farmhouse, most of the recipes that you make will be enjoyed throughout your visit but we always suggest that cookery guests bring a basket or food container to take bakes home with them. I am allergic to nuts, does your kitchen handle nut products? Saturday 17 September marks the start of British Food Fortnight – 14 days dedicated to championing the best produce that is grown, reared, brewed, baked, matured, cured and cooked in the UK. Now in its 10th year, this national event will see food tastings taking place in supermarkets, cookery lessons held in schools, all-British menus in pubs and restaurants, and food festivals running up and down the country. Of course, no one knows more about British ingredients, and the best way to cook them, than the farmers and farming families who produce them. With this in mind, we asked readers to dig out recipes for their favourite farmhouse fare – the dishes that never fail to get the kids running for the kitchen table and have the whole family demanding second helpings. The only question is, which one will you be cooking this British Food Fortnight?Seasonal vegetables – 80/20 rule, blanch and refresh, roasting and griddling, steaming, sweating vegetables in the simmering oven.

Regrettably this is not possible. All of our classes are offered on a ‘one to one’ or ‘one to two’ basis for family or friends attending together. However you are welcome to come for an individual day on your own. My partner is an experienced AGA cook but I have no experience whatsoever. Can you offer a cookery class to suit us both? English muffins and breakfast rolls – maximising the benefits of cast iron, using fresh and dried yeast as well as an introduction to sourdough.We divulge tips and secrets that have been learnt over the last twenty five years in commercial kitchens as well as working in private clients’ homes.Following your 1:1 class, Lisa encourages you to keep in touch with any cookery questions. Recipes are selected to the following methods (or may possibly be adapted to offer seasonal alternatives):

English muffins & breakfast rolls – maximising the benefits of cast iron, using fresh and dried yeast. Or an introduction to sourdough. A Dorset countryside cookery experience ideal for anyone who’d love to hone their culinary repertoire. Collect eggs from our free range hens and gather herbs, fruit and flowers from the garden. Immerse yourself in country life and learn how to cook seasonally from scratch. Subject to current seasonal availability we may need to adjust the schedule to offer a similar alternative. We can offer personalised cookery classes for all diets including FODMAP and gluten intolerant recipes. Please get in touch to chat through your specific requirements. All Hallows’ Farmhouse is a residential cookery school. Does that mean we have to stay to book a class?Depending on your requirements and the season, your cookery class may include the following dishes: Seasonal tart – AGA pastry with the benefit of no need to bake blind in the roasting oven and use of plain cold shelf During your class you will prepare recipes that have been carefully tailored to suit your family life. As well as demonstrating key AGA cookery rules, the tuition is designed to hone your repertoire of traditional meat and game recipes and enable you to be totally confident to create the ultimate Sunday Roast. Whether you stay for a few nights or just come for the day, the choice is entirely yours. We just look forward to welcoming you. I’d like to buy this gift as a present but the recipient is not keen to learn online and would prefer to cook at home rather than travel?