Cookery Lessons, Hertford Heath
Cookery Lessons in Hertford Heath
The Larder Door is now offering a wide selection of cookery lessons. Our classes are designed to give valuable tips and techniques and are conducted in our spacious and well equipped kitchen. The course fee is fully inclusive of all ingredients.
Whether it’s starting from scratch, brushing up on skills or learning some new recipes and techniques, take some time out and come and enjoy yourself, plus take home all of the food you have cooked. Class sizes are small, relaxed and hands-on with as much or as little help and support as you need.
- Sit down to an introduction with coffee or tea and homemade biscuits or cake
- All ingredients are provided and weighed out
- Take home a pack containing the course recipes
- Some packaging for the food you have made will be available
Please email us to receive an up-to-date list of the Cookery Lessons or to discuss a tailor-made Cookery Class.
Examples of previous classes include
- Bread - Fill your home with the wonderful aromas of your own bread. Make a delicious cottage loaf, bagels and focaccia, or other breads. At the end of the class, enjoy a smoked salmon bagel with a glass of wine or soft drink.
- Fish - This workshop covers the basics of buying and cooking fish. Learn to recognise the signs of freshly caught fish, plus how to fillet and pin-bone. Preparation of a delicious sea-bass dish to take home, plus lunch of Omelette Arnold Bennett, a delicious dish with smoked haddock.
- Quick mid-week suppers - Demonstration and tasting session. Watch several mid-week supper dishes being prepared and sample them. The emphasis is on dishes that are all quick and easy to cook. Take home plenty of recipes and ideas, extending your repertoire.
- Middle Eastern flavours - Working in pairs, prepare, cook and eat chicken thighs stuffed with sour cherries and feta, char-grilled squash with a pickled walnut salsa and make a Middle Eastern orange and almond cake to take home.
- A piece of cake - Create some delicious treats using a variety of techniques in cake making. Bake and take home a tray of fabulous chocolate brownies, a rich lemon curd sponge and a swiss roll, filled with raspberry jam, or other cakes that you particularly want to master.
- Canapes - Add the Wow factor to any celebration that you hold by preparing and cooking a selection of canapes. Enjoy some tasters and take home a variety of recipes along with presentation ideas.
- Indian take-away - Prepare and cook a delicious Indian meal to takeaway with you. Tasters during the workshop and plenty of recipes to take home.
The above is just a small sample of classes that have been run. Others include Pasta from scratch, French desserts, Mastering pastry and Vegetarian suppers. If there is something you would like to be taught, then please get in touch and we can arrange a special cookery lesson at a time and date to suit you. Just drop us an email.
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