Georgian Cookery
Course
In Penrith,
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Type
Course
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Location
Penrith,
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Duration
2 Days
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Course programme
SATURDAY
10 am - Welcome and Introduction to the Course. We own a very comprehensive library of original Georgian recipe books, so we will start the day by taking a close look at some of the key works of this seminal period in English culinary history.
10.45 -13.00 - Roasting, Boiling and Broiling - the basic skills required by every eighteenth century kitchen maid. We will cook our midday meal on the fire. It will consist of a full sirloin of beef roasted on the spit with a pudding baking in the dripping pan underneath. While the joint roasts, we will be boiling a quaking pudding over the fire.
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 - Early Georgian Court Cookery Techniques - Cullis, ragoos and garnishes. Highly flavoured meat concentrates called cullises (from the French coulis) were essential to the court style of cookery. We will learn to make a cullis and then use it to flavour a ragoo of sweetbreads, which in turn will be used to garnish the main dish of our evening meal - ducks à la braize.
15.30 - 15.45 - Tea
15.45 - 17.00 - Braizes and Daubes. We will learn the technique of larding meat and prepare some wild mallard for braizing, which involves cooking the birds in a braizing pan with hot charcoal placed on its lid as well as fire below.
17.00 - 20.00 - Free
20.00 - Historic Dinner at Wreay Farm
SUNDAY
10.00 - 13.00 - Raised Pies. We will learn the technique of making hot water crust and master the difficult art of raising and ornamenting a large pie.
10.45 - 13.00 -Baked Georgian Puddings. We will make a quince pudding and a tort du moy from Martha Bradley's The British Housewife of 1758, learning how to make a 'collar' of puff paste to contain the pudding mix.
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 Syllabubs and Trifles - the whole afternoon will be devoted to learning how to make these wonderful dairy foods using some remarkable eighteenth century kitchen aids.
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Georgian Cookery