Preserves Courses

Edible Gifts Day

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

Get ahead with preparations for the festive season and join us for a hands-on master class on making edible gifts for your friends and family. During the day we’ll make mincemeat, mince pies with frangipane, citrus liqueurs, date chutney, cheese and chutney biscuits and chocolate cookies. There will be recipes, bakes, bottles and jars to take home with ideas for packaging them into instant gifts. Lunch is included. SKILLS Baking biscuits and pies Bottling and storing liqueurs Packaging gifts Potting…

£150.00

Marmalade Make and Bake Day

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

Join us for a hands-on Marmalade Make and Bake Day. Learn how to make traditional Seville Orange Marmalade, using Vivien’s award-winning recipe. Find out how to enter marmalade into competitions and how to bake with marmalade. We start the day tasting of a range of Vivien’s marmalades. Vivien will explain the features of great marmalades and demonstrate the stages of making marmalade from juicing the fruit to potting the marmalade into jars. Everyone prepares a small batch of marmalade and…

£135.00

Summer Jams, Jellies and Cordials Course

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

Come and join us on our Summer Jams, Jellies and Cordials Course. Join us for this lovely summery course that focuses on traditional methods of preserving the season’s best soft fruits. You’ll learn how to make the most of their gorgeous flavours with classic jams, jellies and cordials that’ll preserve a taste of the sunshine well into the autumn and winter (provided you can resist them that long). Skills • Preparing ingredients • Simmering and boiling ingredients • Potting jam…

£150.00

Autumn Preserves

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

Autumn is traditionally the time to preserve all the bounty of summer and the harvest, and store up some delicious treats for the wintry months ahead – and that’s exactly what we’ll be doing on this Autumn Preserves Course, using delicious authentic recipes. Skills • Selecting and preparing the best ingredients • Slow cooking and keeping it simple • How to remove scum • How to test for a set • How to test for pectin • How to test…

£150.00

Edible Gifts Course

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

The perfect way to get into the Christmas spirit – join us for a lovely cosy day in the Vale House Kitchen classroom, making delicious seasonal delights for your friends and family. On this Edible Gifts Course you'll go home with some fabulous ready-made gifts and plenty of recipe ideas and inspiration! Skills • Baking biscuits and pies • Bottling and storing liqueurs • Packaging gifts • Potting preserves and safe storage • Preparing ingredients • Selecting and safe use…

£150.00

Marmalade Making Course

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

There’s nothing quite like hot buttered toast topped with gorgeously tangy marmalade – and if you’ve only ever tasted supermarket versions, you’ll be blown away by the difference between that and the proper homemade stuff. Join us on this Marmalade Making Course with expert Vivien Lloyd, winner of multiple high-profile awards for her marmalade recipes. Skills • Shredding peel • Simmering and boiling ingredients • Selecting the best Seville oranges • Testing for pectin • Identifying setting point • Selecting…

£150.00

Marmalade Making Course

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

There’s nothing quite like hot buttered toast topped with gorgeously tangy marmalade – and if you’ve only ever tasted supermarket versions, you’ll be blown away by the difference between that and the proper homemade stuff. Join us on this Marmalade Making Course with expert Vivien Lloyd, winner of multiple high-profile awards for her marmalade recipes. Skills • Shredding peel • Simmering and boiling ingredients • Selecting the best Seville oranges • Testing for pectin • Identifying setting point • Selecting…

£150.00

Summer Jams, Jellies and Cordials Course

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

Join us for this lovely Summer Jams, Jellies and Cordials course that focuses on traditional methods of preserving the season’s best soft fruits. You’ll learn how to make the most of their gorgeous flavours with classic jams, jellies and cordials that’ll preserve a taste of the sunshine well into the autumn and winter (provided you can resist them that long). Skills • Preparing ingredients • Simmering and boiling ingredients • Potting jam and jelly and safe storage • How to…

£150.00

Edible Gifts Course

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

The perfect way to get into the Christmas spirit – join us for a lovely cosy day in the Vale House Kitchen classroom, making delicious seasonal delights for your friends and family. On this Edible Gifts Course you'll go home with some fabulous ready-made gifts and plenty of recipe ideas and inspiration! Skills • Baking biscuits and pies • Bottling and storing liqueurs • Packaging gifts • Potting preserves and safe storage • Preparing ingredients • Selecting and safe use…

£175.00

Virtual Marmalade

Cookery School Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, United Kingdom

There’s nothing quite like hot buttered toast topped with gorgeously tangy marmalade, especially if you've made it yourself. This Virtual Marmalade Course will take place over two one hour sessions on consecutive days. Vale House Kitchen Founder Bod Griffiths will firstly show you how to set up your equipment and then prep your fruit so that you have exactly the right ingredients in the pan. This session will cover how to juice the fruit properly, prepping your muslin bag and…

£25.00