Hartingtons is a School of Food in Bakewell in the Peak District. We also provide expert courses and mentoring on setting up food/drink related businesses.
Foodie gifts are always appreciated. Hartingtons School of Food loves giving people gift vouchers for our extensive range of artisan food & drink & cookery courses. It's the perfect gift for any foodie and person who loves to create their own wonderful tasting food or drink at home.
Gift voucher options
We like to give you the choice of how you buy your gift vouchers. We can present you with an open gift voucher for any amount or course; this can be done by just giving us a call or dropping us an email. If you would prefer to carry out the whole process online, why not have a look at the vouchers available through Paypal. If you want to personalise your foodie gift, why not let us prepare you a unique personalised gift letter. We are ready and look forward to your e-mail or call, so just get in touch.
We are so excited to start our cookery and baking courses this Autumn and one of the most interesting for foodies and walkers a like is our food foraging and cookery courses with expert food forager Chris Bax.
This one day combined forage and cookery courses showcases 30-40 foraged food items that can be seen and tasted by just a four hour foraging walk along the Monsall Trail just outside Bakewell. Chris then takes a selection from natures larder to create a stunning 4 course tasting menu for our hungry foragers to watch being cooked and then enjoy a small sample.
We have just a couple of places left on Chris's final foraging course before Christmas. If you can't make it this time we will be repeating a foraging course in the Spring of next year.
Chatsworth House has long being an advocate of quality local ingredients food and drink and plenty is available from the Chatsworth Farm Shop and also the Devonshire Arms.
Chatsworth
in the heart of the beautiful Peak District has long been associated
with fine food and cookery and an appreciation of how to use the
abundance of stunning local ingredients from Derbyshire Lamb, Venison to
locally produced beer such as Peak Ales based on the estate.
Flavour of Chatsworth Cookery Course
Darren's
skill is to build up a stunning and complex plate of food by employing
his repertoire of cookery skills on this Chatsworth inspired cookery
course and techniques and using fresh seasonal produce which can be
found on the Chatsworth Estate.
On this Flavours of
Chatsworth Cookery Course you will work alongside Darren to produce a
stunning 3 course meal made from the finest Derbyshire ingredients. You
will take home everything you make on the day to enjoy with family and
friends:
Hartingtons of Bakewell has been running over the last few years a number of
cookery courses dedicated and inspired by the fabulous flavours and
ingredients found locally in Derbyshire on the Chatsworth Estate. Taken
by leading Chef Darren Goodwin. The latest menu for the Flavours of
Chatsworth Cookery Course comprises:
• Home cured fillets of trout with lime, lemon and dill, served with pickled kohlrabi on a watercress butter sauce
• Derbyshire rack of lamb with local wild garlic and breadcrumb
herb crust served with potatoes dauphinoise and poached baby globe
artichokes
• Show stopping white chocolate delice with macerated
strawberries, served with home made boozy Pimms jelly, a crisp tuile
and chocolate teardrops
Skills learned on the day will include:
How to professionally cure fish
Basic butchery skills including dressing lamb and preparing it as a French rack for roasting
Pickling techniques to make stunning looking pickled vegetables
Creating your own rich butter sauce
Professional patisserie skills including tempering chocolate, how to make the perfect jelly and how to make tuile biscuits
To book a place on this one off cookery event then visit Flavours of Chatsworth Cookery Course.
When does Chatsworth House Re-open 2018?
The fabulous Chatsworth House re-opens for the Spring season on the
24th March 2018 so make a note of the re-opening date after being closed
for the Winter.
Don't forget though that you can visit the grounds of Chatsworth House designed by Capability Brown at any time during the year.
During the main season Opening times are as follows:
For those that have not been this evening is one not to be missed. A one off 8 course tasting menu from a Chef at the top of his game Darren Goodwin of Loose Hill House and Grafene in Manchester knows how to dazzle and amaze with his combination of simple flavours building up to a plate of food like a grand master paints a picture, layer by layer.
Join us with John Hattersley Wines for our Grand Finale of food and drink on this one off event.
The MENU
Darren's surprise canapés
+++ Salmon, watercress soup, beetroot, creme fraiche +++ Rabbit and black pudding terrine, piccalilli +++ Crab, Bloody Mary, celery sorbet
+++ Goosnargh guinea fowl "hunters sauce"
+++ Passion fruit, mocha meringue +++ Apple and blackberry crumble, custard
+++ Artisan cheese and accompaniments +++ Yorkshire Tea and Coffee
We are racing into September and Autumn; one of my favourite seasons. I love apples, nuts and the rustle of newly fallen leaves. Autumn presents itself with it's own challenges such as what do you do with all those fabulous English apples? This brings me onto our new Artisan Cider Making Course where we learn how to produce delicious artisan cider from all those left over apples. So join our new tutor Rob North from Pure North Cider Press to learn how to make your own golden nectar. Rob is a gent and an expert in cider production having set up his own production facilities near Holmsfirth in Yorkshire.
During the day learning all about artisan cider production we will take you through:
We have just returned from an 18 night holiday around the Balearic Islands off the coast of mainland Spain and yet again we were blown away by the quality of the food produce and just how good eating out on a budget can be. We fell in love with the Spanish tradition of a relaxed 2 hour lunch on a Menu Del Dia followed by an evening visit to a local tapas bar and dining out on their array of stunning Pinchos. For those not in the know a Pinchos or known locally where we were as Pintxos are the ultimate open sandwich available in a plethora of colours and flavour combinations. These combine elegantly with a glass or two of the inexpensive but surprisingly good local wines. The essence of Spanish cookery just like any good food is to take quality ingredients and then to understand how you combine these flavours to produce interesting and mouth watering flavour combinations. The essence of good tapas.
Combining great local food produce and cookery skills
For those people who interested in being able to recreate their own slice of Spanish cookery in the UK we have the perfect combination on our one day authentic tapas cookery course. On it Javier De La Hormaza from Basco the leading importer of gourmet Spanish food will show you how to create authentic Spanish food dishes to create stunning results.
Lots of our guests who are booked on one of range of cookery and artisan food courses look to make a weekend or week stay in Bakewell in the fabulous Peak District.
We now have accommodation in the next door River View apartment also set in Rutland Mill giving you beautiful views over the River Wye in Bakewell. The apartment is available to book from September.
Stunning newly converted mill apartment overlooking the River Wye in the heart of the picturesque Peak District town of Bakewell. Light, airy interior inspired by the owners Danish heritage and love of Nordic design.
