Gluten Free Baking Course with Howard Middleton

Gluten free baking can be tricky because you have to learn how to bake with flours that are made from non-wheat based flours.  This flours have very different characteristics and choosing the right flour combination whether it's tapioca or potato or rice flour for the right baking purpose is part of the skill.

Howard Middleton a contestant in the most recent series of the Great British Bake Off (GBBO) is passionate about his baking.  His particular interest lies in baking with gluten free flours.  Howard amazed the Great British Bake Off judges with his gluten free coconut and passion fruit cake on the GBBO.

Howard has developed with Hartingtons of Bakewell a course that will teach people who love baking and are either coeliac or have a gluten intolerance how they can bake a range of 'show stopping' bakes (including bread) without the gluten.

Gluten free baking course

Bakewell Christmas Weekend - Food Extravaganza!

The Bakewell Christmas Weekend gets into full swing this weekend.  Hartingtons School of Food will be opening is doors and showcasing an Italian Food Mercato put on by Nonnas of Sheffield.  On the day in Bakewell there will be fabulous Italian deli treats to try and buy.  In the School of Food there will be an artisan chocolatier Libby Carl demonstrating her artisan art of chocolate making.

On the Sunday of the Bakewell Christmas Weekend Hartingtons will present there own mini artisan food market outside in the historic Rutland Mews Courtyard including: artisan pork pie maker Liberty Foods, cup cake maker Emma Mitchell Cakes, artisan bakery Sunflower Bakery.

Come along on the Bakewell Christmas Weekend to experience a true foodie start to the season along with Christmas Weekend offers on selective cookery courses.

Foodie Gift Vouchers

Carsington Water Food Festival - Christmas Bonanza

For foodies and lovers of Carsington Water just outside Derby.  There is a double whammy this Sunday when Carsington Water hosts the Hartingtons' Carsington Water Christmas Food Festival in it's historic courtyard.  Come along and be treated to a selection of artisan food producers along with a Christmas choir all helping foodies to get in the Christmas spirit.  Talking of which mulled wine will be available to keep out the winter chill.

Carsington Water Food Festivals

Learn To Master Indian Spices & Flavours

This is a hands on cookery course for people that love Indian spices and flavours but don't quite understand how to create the authentic taste at home without resorting to the ubiquitous supermarket curry paste.

Join personal chef Frank Boddy for a tour of Indian flavours from Indian street food to authentic indian deserts. Despite Frank's lack of Indian heritage his passion for Indian cookery and flavours is obvious and his recipes amongst the best we've tasted.  Frank relaxed informal style will make this course suitable for novice inexperienced cooks to keen home cooks looking to get more out of cooking with authentic indian herbs and spices.

On the day you will make the following dishes :

Egg Curry [Baida Curry]
Cheese, Tomato and Pepper Curry [Paneer Jalfrezi]
Calcutta Prawn Curry [Kolkata Chingri Curry]
Minced Lamb Patties [Kheema Tikki]
Manuka Tamater Ki Chutney (Raisin and Tomato Chutney) & 
Nashpati Chutney (Pear Chutney)

Indian Cookery Course

Foodie Tour of the Peak District

Hartingtons Foodie Tour of Bakewell Farmers Market and Bakewell will give keen foodies unique insights into the artisan food producers and food heritage of the Peak District.

The foodie tour is to be led by Julie Ryalls and Chris Horne owners of Hartingtons School of Food in Bakewell and the team behind, Baslow Food Fair and Carsington Waters growing Food Festivals.

The foodie tour will enable food lovers to meet some of the fantastic food producers in the Peak District and obtain unrivalled insights to their back stories, products and how they produce their artisan food products.

In addition, to the free tasters along the route the foodie tour will provide an unrivalled 3 course gourmet ploughmans lunch featuring many of the products that you will see on the day.

This foodie tour would make a great foodie gift and places are strictly limited.

Foodie Tour Peak District

Cookery courses - to inspire!

Our cookery courses are there to inspire you to experiment and learn new cookery techniques.  We always use an expert tutor so that you have the experience of being taught by an expert every time.  From learning to cook authentic Thai Food with Thai tutor Kwang to season regional Italian food with Sheffield institution Nonnas. 

What about learning the skills to create stunning dishes with Game with celebrity chef Rachel Green?  Rachel will show you how to combine modern and traditional flavours with a whole range of Game to create stunning dinner party recipes.

Indian flavours are amongst the most inspiring of any food.  Let Frank Boddy demystify how you use the range of Indian spices to create a range of regional Indian dishes from scratch.

Foraging & wild food throws up some magical ingredients.  Chris Bax will show you how to use natures finest food to enhance your cookery.

So let's get cooking!

3 day microbrewery course for 2014

Following on from the demand for our 2 day setting up a microbrewery course we have decided to give aspirant microbrewery owners an extra day in 2014 and the option of taking an additional day visiting the Barn Brewery operated by Peak Ales.  For those people serious about setting up their own microbrewery in 2014 this 3 day setting up a microbrewery course will give give you the essential knowledge base for making your beer brewing dream happen next year.

Course microbrewery