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October 2019
Lincolnshire Day Baking – 1st October
Lincolnshire food isn't just about sausages! On today's course you will be making biscuits, bread and cakes! There are so many different baked goods to choose from and for each of these there are a large number of different recipes! Take plum bread for example! I will be using a recipe I've adapted from one given to me at Heckington Windmill when I used to demonstrate bread making there - using flour from the mill and beer from the local brewery. We will also be putting…
Find out more »Wartime Bread & Jam – New short course – 16th October
New course - more details to follow soon Recipes will include the National Loaf and Apple & Carrot Jam 16th October 2019 10.30 - 16.00 £65.00 Places available - 5 BOOK NOW
Find out more »November 2019
Wartime Recipes and Traditions – 5th November
There is so much to be learnt from the creativeness of the women who lived through WW2 and had to 'make do' in so many ways. Today's course will look at how they cooked despite rationing through these war years. You will make and bake a range of different foods from original recipes which can now be seen to be good examples of nutritious meals. And all this for you to take home along with recipes and lots of information. We now…
Find out more »December 2019
Wartime Christmas Recipes and Traditions – 7th December
New Course! There is so much to be learnt from the creativeness of the people who lived in Britain through the wartime years during WW2. They had to 'make do' in so many ways. Today's course will look at how they cooked and baked at Christmas despite rations through these war years. We will look at how vegetables were used to inspire gourmet meals and how they managed without goose, turkey, cream or marzipan! For lunch we will make Mock Goose with Root Vegetable…
Find out more »Edible Gifts: Get fruity this Christmas – 12th December
On this new Christmas course you will make a variety of items which will make perfect gifts this Christmas. Give them singly or put them together in a hamper of goodies - all made by you! You will make and bake the following; Plum bread with dried fruit soaked in mulled wine Cranberry butter Spiced Christmas apple & cinnamon jam Lunch is a warming home-made roasted root vegetables with local Lincolnshire sausages, followed by a spiced apple oat crumble & cream…
Find out more »Edible Gifts 2: Have a Cranberry Christmas! – 15th December
On this new Christmas course you will make a variety of items which will make perfect gifts this Christmas. Give them singly or put them together in a hamper of goodies - all made by you! You will make and bake the following; Cranberry & Orange loaf Cranberry Butter Spiced Cranberry Jam Lunch is a warming home-made roasted root vegetables with local Lincolnshire sausages, followed by a spiced apple oat crumble & cream which you will love. Refreshments will include mulled…
Find out more »Edible Gifts 3: Have a very vegan Christmas! Make your own Cheese, Chocolate & Chutney – 18th December
On this new Christmas course you will make a variety of items which will make perfect gifts this Christmas. Give them singly or put them together in a hamper of goodies - all made by you! You will make and bake the following; Soft cashew cheese with cranberries Chocolate truffles with coconut cream ganache Christmas chutney with beetroot and oranges Lunch is a warming home-made roasted root vegetables with vegan sausages, followed by a spiced apple oat crumble & cream…
Find out more »January 2020
Wartime Recipes and Traditions – 8th January
Food rationing began on 8 January 1940, four months after the outbreak of war. Rations were initially imposed on the sale of bacon, butter and sugar, but much more was to follow. This course covers recipes which were devised in a response to this rationing by the government department - the Ministry of Food, as well as members of various women's groups and resourceful housewives. There is so much to be learnt from the creativeness of the women who lived through…
Find out more »March 2020
Mother’s Day Event – Lincolnshire in Wartime – what the Women did! – 22nd March – Free Event
As it is Mother's Day today, we will be opening our doors to all on our special themed 'Lincolnshire in Wartime' day with emphasis on what the wives and mothers did at home and on the Front during both World Wars. There will be many goodies awaiting for you to try as well as a small exhibition you can have a look at about the role of the Land Army girls in Lincolnshire and what it was like living and…
Find out more »April 2020
International Carrot Day: Cooking with Carrots and other Wartime Recipes – 4th April
New Course! There is so much to be learnt from the creativeness of the women who lived through WW2 and had to 'make do' in so many ways. Today's course will look at how they cooked despite rations through these war years. You will follow original recipes which contained carrots including Nut roast, Woolton Pie, Carrot buns, Mock Apricot Flan, Curried Carrots, Carrot Chocolate Tort, and Carrot & Apple jam plus more including ideas for carrot sandwiches! And all this for…
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