Come along and learn how to make a proper steak/chicken pie or chicken/leek cobbler and also a family favourite pudding
Grandma Marsden’s apple & blackberry pie with melt-in-the-mouth pastry – so easy to prepare! Also make another classic pudding such as sticky toffee pudding, steamed treacle/chocolate sponge with custard, Eve’s pudding, rhubarb crumble cake, brioche bread & butter pudding, French style apple tart, or meringue nests filled with fresh strawberries & cream. They will be sure to impress family and friends!
Even now, when people ask what I do… It feels strange to say that I make pork pies! In April 2010 I was made redundant from a marketing assistant post and looked for an alternative position.
But I couldn’t find anything suitable. My husband had always savoured the taste of my cooking and suggested that I started making… ‘those fantastic pork pies’. And so it began.
Years before, my dad, and granddad before him, had made pork pies to an old family recipe. One vital piece of equipment that they employed was a pie-making machine called the ‘Little Champion’.
To assist my efforts to replicate this special family recipe, the Little Champion was brought back from retirement and following a few repairs, it was put to productive use again.
This was originally a one day course. I expanded it to run over 2 days and to show the different cooking processes for traditional dishes such as pies, the simplicity of pates (although they can be more complex) and terrines. These techniques go back in history and were part of the classic French s...
The Real Macaron Company is renowned for its fun and informative macaron masterclasses.
Come along and learn how to make two fantastic handmade ‘Penistone Pork Pies’ using hot water pastry and a traditional savoury pasty with a melt in the mouth short crust pastry to take away and enjoy with the family.
Spend time with us at our Cookery School. Learn new skills and techniques with our expert chefs and experience a warm welcome from our friendly front of house team.
This intensive program is designed to meet the needs of students wishing to obtain a broad foundation in the art of pastry making, baking from viennoiseries, craft with chocolate and everything in between! You will receive training from our highly acclaimed pastry chef in our well equipped pastry l...
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