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- Penrith,
- 2 Days
...a hen's nest, a melon in flummery and a fish pond. 15.30 - 15.45 - Tea 15.45 - 17.00 - Ice Cream Moulds. We will make a variety of spectacular garnishing...
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- Penrith,
- 2 Days
...Demonstrations and hands on experience of ordering a fillet of beef for the spit. Balancing the spit. Trussing fowl and game birds. Basting and dredgings...
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- Penrith,
- 2 Days
...we will make a very ambitious raised pie based on one of Agnes Marshall's recipes. 17.00 - 20.00 - Free 20.00 - Historic dinner (lots of pies of course)...
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- Penrith,
- 2 Days
...drying and icing the marchpane in the cool oven. 15.30 - 15.45 - Tea 15.45 - 17.00 - Food gilding techniques. 17.00 - 20.00 - Free 20.00 - Historic Dinner...
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- Penrith,
- 2 Days
...10.45 -11.30 - Tudor Table Service. We will explore those elements of table ritual which had survived from Medieval court protocol and were still lingering...
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- Penrith,
- 2 Days
...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...
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We are located at Wreay Farm, a small seventeenth century farmhouse in Cumbria, on the edge of the Lake District National Park. The farmhouse kitchen (known locally as a firehouse) is equipped with a wide range of antique kitchen utensils and a roasting range complete with clockwork jacks. It has frequently been used as a television kitchen (recently in the US Food Network's Food Fit for a King and for BBC2 Open University's Open Minds). We also have a confectionery room and a small bakehouse with wood-fired oven. We limit our group size to six participants per course, which means you get plenty of individual attention. You will cook your own lunches, but will get to experience a Saturday night dinner of period dishes cooked by Ivan. Menus for these vary from course to course, but see the sample Bill of Fare at the bottom of this page for a preview of the nature of the gastronomic experience you will be letting yourself in for.
