Cookery classes & events for spring and early summer.
Countryside walks & gathering spring greens. Dates soon.
Harvest seasonal treats from our walled garden and then cook together in the farmhouse kitchen.
Always a popular present. Please get in touch for details of our gift vouchers.
Cookery weekends and food tours.
Escape to a Dorset farmhouse for the weekend. Begin each day with an award-winning AGA cooked breakfast. Then prepare to spend a full day in the farmhouse kitchen. Hone your cookery skills creating sweet, cream butter, a batch of English muffins or breakfast rolls and half a dozen jars of marmalade.
Bespoke AGA cookery tuition – new classes for late spring and early summer.
- Advanced bakery – croissant and brioche
- Gluten and dairy free cookery
- Vegetarian and vegan family meals
- Kitchen garden – growing, gathering and cooking
What our cookery guests say –
Two day AGA class and Dorset food tour for Katherine who travelled from Kentucky, USA with her wonderful Mom, Jane. October 2018
‘I can’t stop thinking about our wonderful days with you in your kitchen. It is really one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in my life. I hope to return with all the family someday, even if just to stay a night or two. I am also very excited to get home and start using my AGA.’
Introductory AGA class for Kirsty who has just installed a beautifully re-conditioned AGA into her Dorset home. October 2018
‘I so enjoyed yesterday and really cannot thank you enough for answering all my questions. I got up this morning and made a casserole properly. The kitchen is only weeks away and I know after time with you yesterday, I will spend hours in there confidently baking!’
Brioche buns
To make sixteen individual brioche buns, you will need - 50 ml (2 fl oz) lukewarm water 15g (1/2 oz) of fresh yeast or 1 tablespoon dried yeast 50 ml 2 (fl oz) milk at room temperature 150 g (6 oz) unsalted butter at room temperature 50 g (2 oz) caster sugar plus one...