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Course Brochure November 2018 - September 2019
Courses A-Z
Learn, Laugh, Love...
04 Sold Out Courses Founded 70 years ago by the NFWI, Denman has
05 Day Schools and Family come a long way. The ethos however, remains
Friendly Workshops the same; learn a new skill, make new friends and
10 Summer Schools & Specials leave feeling well rested and inspired!
11 Reunions Everyone is welcome at Denman – men, women
12 Special Events and children! – and you don’t have to be a WI
14 Cookery Residential Courses A-Z member either. We have over 650 courses to
choose from, your biggest challenge is choosing
20 Craft Residential Courses A-Z
which one to go for!
42 Lifestyle Residential Courses A-Z
55 Calendar If you’re not ready to embark on a course just yet,
why not organise a Day Visit or Designer Day for
62 Terms and Conditions
you and your friends?
64 Application Form
A Day Visit is just £30 A Designer Day is
and includes just £80 and includes
A personal welcome Two or four hour
from staff workshops from a
Tour of the house, bespoke list
DENMAN AND THE WI COOKERY SCHOOL grounds and bedrooms of courses
ARE PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:
Denman lunch and Denman lunch and
cream tea! afternoon tea
KEY
M Price for current WI members NM Price for non-members
2 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.uk
DID YOU KNOW?
The price of a Denman
residential course includes
tuition from an expert tutor, plus
all accommodation, breakfast,
morning coffee and pastries,
two-course lunch, afternoon
tea and three-course dinners.
It’s practically all inclusive!
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The following courses are sold out, however you can still be
SOLD OUT COURSES added to the waiting list. Visit the website and search for the
course to secure your place, or contact us by phone or email.
Goldwork Embroidery Silver Clay Jewellery for Christmas Presents
COOKERY M £540 NM £600 with Louise Simmonds
A Taste of Spain with Peter Lien 4-8 March 2019 M £150 NM £125
M £405 NM £445 1-5 April 2019 28 November 2018
3-7 June 2019 M £330 NM £370
26-28 November 2018
Goldwork Embroidery for Christmas 25-27 November 2018
American Baking with Kelly Mauger M £560 NM £610
M £375 NM £410 Silver Clay Jewellery with Freshwater
5-9 November 2018
18-20 January 2019 Pearls with Louise Simmonds
Festive Willow with Norah Kennedy M £300 NM £340
Cooking the Americas with Peter Lien M £110 NM £130 13-15 March 2019
M £405 NM £445 3 December 2018
19-21 November 2018 Silver Clay Jewellery: Gifts for Christmas
Jacobean Crewel Embroidery with Melanie Blaikie
Edible Gifts with Kelly Mauger with Julie Walsby M £360 NM £400
M £375 NM £410 M £560 NM £610 9-11 November 2018
5-7 December 2018 19-23 November 2018
10-12 December 2018 Silver Clay Jewellery with Fused Glass
Make the Most of Your Sewing Machine with Louise Simmonds
Let’s Make Cheese - Part 2 with May Martin M £330 NM £370
with Louise Talbot M £360 NM £400 13-15 February 2019
Sold Out Courses
M £375 NM £410 4-6 March 2019
20-22 February 2019 29 April – 1 May 2019 Silver Jewellery: Silversmithing Reunion
with Pauline Payne
Perfect Pastry with Kelly Mauger May’s Bees Christmas Reunion M £480 NM £545
M £375 NM £410 with May Martin 15-18 April 2019
21-23 November 2018 M £610 NM £670
26-30 November 2018
CRAFT LIFESTYLE
Overlocker: Make the Most of Your
A Paper Bag But Not As You Know It Overlocker with May Martin History and Heritage: Advent in Festive
with Marilyn Pipe M £360 NM £400 Oxford with Anna Steven
M £330 NM £370 6-8 March 2019 M £370 NM £405
9-11 November 2019 1-3 May 2019 5-7 December 2018
Acrylic Painting: Paint Like the Patchwork: Just For Fun Ukulele 3: The Rock and Roll Years
Impressionists with Jonathan Newey with Patricia Robson with Richard Partridge
M £460 NM £515 M £460 NM £515 M £330 NM £370
15-18 April 2019 10-13 December 2018 29-31 March 2019
Bumper Craft Take Away with Natalie Green Patchwork: Linked Squares
M £330 NM £370 with Patricia Robson
11-13 January 2019 M £540 NM £600
14-18 April 2019
Embroidery: Beaded Blackberries
with Stumpwork and a Hedgehog Platinum Special: Faberge Style Eggs:
with Julie Walsby Denman Swan with Morag Flower and
M £560 NM £610 Pauline Vice
11-15 March 2019 M £610 NM £670
19-23 November 2018
4 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.uk
DAY SCHOOLS AND FAMILY WORKSHOPS
Fermentation: The Next Step with Ashley Keen
COOKERY Take your home ferments to the CRAFT
next level with exciting new flavour
combinations, cultured condiments
All Cookery Day Schools and even your very own ginger All Craft Day Schools
are priced at £125 for WI ‘bug’ for real ginger beer at home. are priced at £105 for WI
members and £145 for 5 September 2019 members and £125 for
non-members, unless non-members, unless
otherwise stated. Healthy Indian Cookery with Bhavini Mistry otherwise stated.
Enjoy the flavours and spices of
Cheese Making with Louise Talbot Indian food without the high calorie
Join farmer’s wife and cheese and fat content. Learn an array
of innovative, healthy, low fat and Aladdin’s Jewellery Box: Reclamation
maker Louise for a fascinating course Jewellery-Making with Frances Benton
in making cheese at home. Louise will flavourful dishes that will tantalise
your tastebuds but won’t compromise The central aim of this course is to
show you how to make a range make something new and wearable
of soft cheeses using domestic on flavour. Recipes will include a
healthy chicken tikka massala, lemon from old, or broken, items. Students
kitchen utensils. can share, or swap amongst
quinoa pilaf, vegetable tadka dahl and
8 August 2019
Day Schools and Family Workshops
delicious coriander and chilli uttapum. themselves and add beads and
17 January 2019 stones from the huge collection of
Curry House Favourites with Bhavini Mistry
pearls and beads brought by the tutor.
With Indian food now known as
Britain’s adopted national cuisine, it Knife Skills with Peter Lien 26 April 2019
is no surprise that everyone has their Learn the essential skills needed to
prepare meat, fish and vegetables Bumper Craft Take Away with Natalie Green
go-to favourites when they visit their Try your hand at a medley of different
local curry house. In this course, you like a pro. In one of Denman’s most
popular courses, you’ll master the craft projects with a contemporary
will learn to cook some of the dishes twist. You will make a number of
that are reminiscent of every good different techniques required to dice,
julienne, and finely chop fruit and different small projects to give you
curry house. lots of lovely ideas for your WI craft
vegetables, fillet fish and joint poultry.
18 April 2019 sessions, to decorate your home or
You’ll also learn how to choose,
maintain and store your knives properly. give away as special presents. There
Eat the Seasons with Ashley Keen
M £135 NM £155 will be a range of projects to try,
Join us for a day of cooking with local,
using beautiful fabrics, felts, buttons,
seasonal produce. You will create 10 January 2019
threads, beads, papers and all sorts!
your own two course lunch followed
by an afternoon exploring dishes to Knife Skills with Ashley Keen M £110 NM £130
take home for dinner. Be inspired Getting the best from your knives will 11 January 2019
to cook using what is available from help you on your way to becoming a
more efficient cook, and this hands-on Button Craft Bonanza with Natalie Green
your garden and local farm shop and
course will teach you the foundations Have you got piles of buttons lying
know how to adapt recipes to suit the
of knife skills that all chefs learn in around or just a button collectaholic?!
produce and time of year.
their initial stages of training. Join This is a fun day which gives you
23 February 2019 several projects to made a dent
Ashley to julienne, brunoises and
Fermentation: An Introduction chiffonade your way to vegetable in your button stash and show off
chopping brilliance! In addition to the your beauties to best effect. We will
with Ashley Keen
vegetable shapes and cuts, you will use buttons to create decorations,
Discover the processes of
learn to bone a chicken and fillet a fish. pictures, accessories, jewellery and
fermentation and how it can be used
17 August 2019 greetings cards and lots of other
to enhance your menu planning and
ideas too.
health. Cover techniques and recipes
to create tasty foods and drink like 18 February 2019
kombucha tea, sauerkraut, labneh, 5 September 2019
yoghurt and pickles and create your
own sourdough starter.
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Calligraphy: An Introduction Crochet: Broomstick Crochet Flower Arranging: Pedestals for the Terrified
with David Nicholls with Lindy Zubairy with Christine Pearce
For anyone who has long admired Celebrate the season learning a This day school is for anyone who
calligraphy and wants to know how to new crochet technique that uses a would like to learn how to design and
start. Demonstrations and individual conventional hook alongside a chunky make a ‘pedestal’ flower arrangement.
tuition will be designed to cater for knitting needle to create a peacock I promise it wont be as daunting as
your particular needs. feather style openwork lace fabric. you think it will be!
5 July 2019 This irresistible openwork pattern is M £110 NM £130
rich with possibilities for creativity and 19 July 2019
Creative Paper Cutting with Christine Green new design.
This day school will introduce you to M £110 NM £130 Handmade Buttons with Natalie Green
a variety of cut out items and a little 2 November 2018 Make a simple form of Dorset
bit of history of the craft to show how button called a cross wheel, cover
versatile this craft is. You will get Drawing: Portraits with David Nicholls the singleton button, which uses
to grips with creative lettering and There are seven billion people on the fabric instead of weaving to cover,
produce a panel unique to you. face of the earth, and most of them with a hand stitched felt back and a
M £110 NM £130 have two eyes, a nose and a mouth handmade shank. Once you have
8 February 2019 – yet, with the exception of identical learned the basics, experiment,
30 September 2019 twins, they are all recognisable one add embroidery and beads, vary
from another. How can this many your weaving, make lots of brightly
Crochet Freeform with Jan Blight faces, each so similar, be recognised coloured ones to upcycle your clothes
Freeform crochet is exactly what it as different? We will learn ways of make unique trims for cushion covers
says it is, crochet that has no regular seeing these differences, and will or even turn them into jewellery.
form. The crocheted fabric is formed draw several portraits, including a M £110 NM £130
Day Schools and Family Workshops
by working a number of ‘scrumbles’, self-portrait drawn in a mirror. 25 March 2019
which are then joined together. The M £110 NM £130
crochet fabric is not repetitive so there 2 November 2018 Jewellery: The Basics of Pearl Knotting
are no granny squares or anything 4 September 2019 with Frances Benton
resembling one! You will need to The central aim is to learn how to
be confident in your ability to work Easy Colour Knitting Using Just One Colour knot a pearl and crystal bracelet on
doubles and trebles and to start with Per Row: The Wonders of Slip Stitch silk. Students can choose to make a
a chain for straight work and a sliding with Linda Parkhouse necklace instead, but this may need
ring for circular work. Are you fascinated by colour to be finished at home. You will also
M £110 NM £130 knitting but fear to give it a go? learn Indian-wiring as applied to
28 September 2019 Then this is the course for you: an earring-making.
introduction to simple slip stitch colour M £110 NM £130
Crochet Pattern Reading with Lindy Zubairy patterning for stunning colour effects 22 March 2019
By the end of this course your using just one colour per row and only 12 April 2019
confidence in pattern reading will have knit and purl stitches.
soared! During the day we will unpick Knitting Know-How with Linda Parkhouse
M £110 NM £130
simple and complex written pattern You will be able to learn some
instructions, investigate antique and 13 November 2018
quick knitting tips and new
vintage approaches alongside modern Festive Willow with Norah Kennedy techniques from a professional
styles, and demystify the crochet Put away the tinsel and the fairy hand-knitting designer so your own
chart. This is a hands on course in lights and spend a rewarding day garments and projects look better
which we will be writing and drafting creating your own unique Christmas finished and presented.
patterns and charts and working some decorations from willow. You can M £110 NM £130
crochet too! expect to make several items to 12 November 2018
26 April 2019 decorate your home or you may 14 March 2019
wish to give them as presents.
A most enjoyable course and you Marquetry: An Introduction:
will return home with a great sense Christmas Decorations with Quentin Smith
of achievement. Hand-cut real wood veneers to
All Craft Day Schools M £110 NM £130 make one or more attractive
are priced at £105 for WI Christmas decorations which can
members and £125 for 16 November 2018
be worn as pendants or hung on the
non-members, unless Christmas tree.
otherwise stated.
26 November 2018
6 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.uk
Modern Calligraphy: Learn the Basics Needle Felting with Sue Pearl Paper Flower Making with Paula Milner
with Jane Lappage You will be shown how to produce Perhaps you would like to learn
The beauty of learning this script different effects with a variety of a new skill, make your own
is that it is easier to master and felting needles as well as the best wedding flowers, exciting table
personalise, making it unique to you. techniques to use. These little decorations, some new home décor,
You will be using a fine point nib animals make the perfect Christmas or even jazz up gift wrapping! How
which is perfect for left handers too. decoration or even take the place of you use the flowers is entirely up
Practising the skills in this script, you the fairy on the Christmas tree. Dry to you – but you will be shown the
will gain your confidence and finish felting – or needle felting – is a simple techniques of how to make the
the day by making a small beautiful process in which you create three smallest of daisies up to larger roses
piece for special occasions, such as a dimensional shapes using wool and a and peonies.
card, place name, gift tag etc. barbed needle. M £110 NM £130
28 June 2019 Christmas Robins 16 August 2019
Mosaics: An Introduction M £110 NM £130 Resin Jewellery: An Introduction to the
with Priscilla Wheater 11 November 2018 Fantastic, Fun and Affordable Jewellery
This is a chance to experience some Christmas Rudolphs with Clare John
of the joys of using mosaic materials. M £110 NM 130 Learn how to make a wonderful range
You will make a small piece of work of jewellery without using expensive
which will give you an insight into
12 November 2018
or sophisticated equipment and make
cutting and laying the tesserae, Paper Cutting for Christmas (Age 12+) a selection of resin filled silver-plated
grouting, finishing and to take home with Christine Green jewellery. The resin is clear and has
something to be proud of. The course will introduce you to a coloured pigments and powders
1 February 2019 wide variety of cut out items including to add to it. The resin is very low
Day Schools and Family Workshops
Victorian fretwork, Haitian metal work odour, non-toxic and doesn’t contain
and tradition Polish paper cuts. With dangerous solvents.
the help of resource sheets you’ll 8 April 2019
get to grips with cutting accurately
and safely using a scalpel blade. Rope Baskets with Sallieann Harrison
You will be introduced to some basic Make a basket from rope on a
guidelines for designing for papercuts sewing machine in just one day!
and you will design your own festive Sallieann will demonstrate making
themed papercut. a base, turning the sides, fabric
wrapping rope and we will discuss
M 1 adult 1 child: £59 dying, painting and other trims that
M 1 adult 2 children: £69 can be added.
NM 1 adult 1 child: £69
M £110 NM £130
NM 1 adult 2 children: £79
28 May 2019
24 November 2018
Silver Clay Jewellery with Melanie Blaikie
Learn wonderful techniques and
tips, to design and create real silver
jewellery using just a few simple
tools. Expect to make at least two
super-shiny, finished pieces that can
even be hall-marked. Lots of fun and
creative inspiration guaranteed.
M £110 NM £130
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Silver Clay Jewellery with Freshwater Stained Glass Panels for Beginners
Pearls with Louise Simmonds with Anna Conti
You will have lots of guidance Make your own beautiful genuine
and inspiration, and absolutely no stained glass abstract hanging panel
experience is needed and you’ll or small window, using traditional
learn enough to be able to do this techniques unchanged for years.
at home. You will be taught how to Anna will introduce the process and
use silver clay to create pendants, show you how to cut glass, ‘lead up’,
charms, broochs or earrings and how solder, cement and install your panel.
to incorporate Freshwater pearls into You will be working from set designs
your design. provided by Anna so that course
M £110 NM £130 participants are able to take away a
6 February 2019 completed panel on the day.
14 January 2019
Silver Clay Jewellery with Fused Glass with 8 July 2019
Louise Simmonds
You will learn how to shape and Stained Glass: All Things Copperfoil!
texture silver clay and how to add with Anna Conti
Silver Clay Jewellery: Make a Silver beautiful dichroic glass cabachons to Make your own beautiful genuine
Keepsake with Louise Simmonds create stunning individual fine silver stained glass light catchers, mirrors,
Do you have a treasured item that jewellery with shimmering iridescent necklaces and 3D objects. No
you would like to replicate and turn ‘gems’. You can expect to make 2 or previous experience is necessary and
into a new piece of jewellery? It could 3 pendants or charms and a pair of by the end of the day you will have
be an old broken brooch, or an odd earrings or similar. a completed two to five copperfoil
Day Schools and Family Workshops
earring, a military button or an old M £110 NM £130 items to take home with you, plus the
cufflink. Just bring along anything techniques and skills to make more
20 July 2019
you’d like to use and we will create an stained glass at home!
individual piece of jewellery with Silver Clay Jewellery: Make a Peapod 9 September 2019
a special meaning for you. or Lily with Louise Simmonds
M £110 NM £130 Fancy making your own personalised Teach Your Craft with Melanie Blaikie
13 February 2019 silver peapod complete with The current revolution in learning
freshwater pearls, ‘peas’, or would traditional and contemporary creative
Silver Clay Jewellery for Beginners you rather design a cala lily flower skills means craft schools, cafes,
with Melanie Blaikie with freshwater pearls on a silver clubs and arts venues are actively
Learn wonderful techniques and stamen? You will use silver clay to seeking confident and inspiring crafts
tips to design and create real silver create individual fine silver pendant teachers - could this be you? By the
jewellery using just a few simple tools. or earrings. end of the day you’ll be ready to start
Expect to make at least two finished 13 March 2019 planning your own successful and
pieces that can even be hall-marked. profitable classes.
M £110 NM £130 Silver Clay Jewellery: Nature’s Treasures M £110 NM £130
24 May 2019 with Louise Simmonds 13 February 2019
23 August 2019 If you love a more natural style of
silver jewellery – you’ll love this Textiles: Christmas Wreaths and Calico
Silver Clay Jewellery for Christmas Presents course! You will have the opportunity Decoration (Age 8+) with Christine Green
with Louise Simmonds to collect material from Denman to What better way to start the festive
You’ll be taught how to use silver clay capture an everlasting memory of season than a day of fabulous fabric
to create pieces to produce stunning your time here. You will collect grass, fun? You will make a unique wreath
jewellery. You’ll also learn some leaves and seed pods and learn how by ripping and folding or knotting
traditional techniques to finish your to transform them into stunning fine fabric and embellishing it with
piece professionally. silver jewellery. baubles. Then you will hand stitch a
28 November 2018 5 April 2019 calico Christmas decoration which
make perfect Christmas gifts. The
course is suitable for everyone,
All Craft Day Schools including the novice stitcher.
are priced at £105 for WI M 1 adult 1 child: £59
members and £125 for M 1 adult 2 children: £69
non-members, unless NM 1 adult 1 child: £69
otherwise stated. NM 1 adult 2 children: £79
1 December 2018
8 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.uk
Tiffany Style Stained Glass For Beginners DNA Testing and Family History
with Karen Jones LIFESTYLE with Jessica Feinstein
You will learn how to cut, On this course you will learn why you
assemble and make your own might want to do a DNA test for family
stained glass sunrise panel or All Lifestyle Day Schools history, and also why you might not
dragonfly suncatcher using the are priced at £105 for want to! What are the different kinds
stained glass copper foil technique WI members and £125 for of test and who are they suitable
(also known as the Tiffany Technique). non-members, unless for? If you decide to do it, there are
You will use a selection of different otherwise stated. several different companies that
coloured stained glass. you can use, and we will look at the
M £110 NM £130 Creative Writing: Autobiographies - advantages of each one. After you
4 March 2019 have made the decision, sent off your
Turning Bare Fact to Fantastic (non)
28 May 2019 sample, and got your results, there
Fiction with Debrah Martin are several things that you need to do
Autobiographies and biographies to get the best from your results. We
Willow Structures for the Garden are still stories, and whether you
with Norah Kennedy will help you to share your family tree
are writing your life story to share so that matches to other people can
You will be introduced to different with your family or with a wider
sizes and varieties of willow, and be discovered.
audience, this workshop will help you
learn how it is grown, harvested make it a page-turner. You can use
M £110 NM £130
and prepared for weaving. Using personal memories, photographs, 4 May 2019
simple tools and some basic weaving genealogy or even a will as the
techniques you can expect to make Drum For Fun with Heather Summers
source of your facts, but learn how to Drumming is great fun, very focusing,
a wigwam, a fan shaped support, a be a master of breathing life into bare
heart shape and a small trellis. a powerful way of making music with
bones and applying the skills of a
Day Schools and Family Workshops
M £110 NM £130 other people. It is an accessible way
polished writer to transform facts into into music as well as being a genre
22 February 2019 fantastic (non)fiction. in its own right. Working in a drum
9 September 2019 circle, you will start with body beats
Willow: Making Piglets with Norah Kennedy
Using some simple basket making and percussion, rhythm games and
Creative Writing and Publishing: Getting
techniques and different colours of activities, and learn how to make
Started on Your Novel with Debrah Martin our own rhythms, polyrhythms, and
willow you will make a delightful piglet This course provides an introduction
to display in your home or garden. African drum rhythms.
to the art of novel-writing and the
Learn how to make the body, floppy essential skills an author uses to
M £110 NM £130
ears, little fat trotters and a curly tail – craft an engaging and intriguing 1 February 2019
the only thing you will not be making novel. It will take participants from
is the squeak! Family History for Beginners
first inspiration through the basic
M £110 NM £130 techniques of novel writing, with
with Jessica Feinstein
3 May 2019 This informal course will give you an
practical exercises along the way,
understanding of various methods and
and most will leave with a debut
Wool Applique Pincushion sources, make you aware of some of
novel underway.
with Sallieann Harrison the pitfalls involved in family history
8 April 2019 research, and equip you with tips
We will cover all the basics of fused
wool applique to cotton backgrounds Creative Writing and Publishing: Writing and advice.
whilst making a weighted pincushion. Credible Dialogue and Developing your M £110 NM £130
We will cover a variety of hand Author’s ‘Voice’ with Debrah Martin 12 April 2019
stitches and discover the best Voices – two of the most difficult
fusibles/needles and threads for aspects of a novel to crack – yours
this type of work. and your characters’! Learn how to
M £110 NM £130 write credible dialogue that drives
8 July 2019 your story forward and also examine
what makes up your own unique way Visit the website
of storytelling – your author’s ‘voice’. to read the full
The workshop will include practical programmes for
ways to make your dialogue – and all our courses
your characters – ‘real’, and how to and events.
use 1st, 3rd and the Omniscient POV
(Point of View) for dramatic effect to
tell your story.
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These fantastic courses are either super special to get you and
SUMMER SCHOOLS AND your friends up to Denman for a weekend, or they’re week-long
DENMAN SPECIALS courses to really sink your teeth into a new subject!
Christmas New Wave Weekend Denman Summer School: Free Machine Mother and Daughter Workshop Weekend 2
A special weekend for the ‘new wave’ Embroidery with Claire Muir A weekend packed with workshops,
WIs emerging across the UK. This is This fun filled course will open up the fun and entertainment to bring the
not only the perfect getaway with the world of free machine embroidery to generations together: mothers,
girls, it is also a unique opportunity you. If you have heard of it but not daughters, grandmothers,
to experience a selection workshops quite sure what it is all about then this granddaughters, aunts, nieces,
covering all the latest trends in is the course for you. The techniques sisters or friends. Learn a selection
craft, cookery and lifestyle. This themselves are easy and you will see of new skills in the stunning environs
includes three workshops with all that with just a little practice, it’s easy of Denman and spend some quality
materials or ingredients, two nights of to “draw with the needle”. You will time with your nearest and dearest.
accommodation, a demonstration on have plenty of samples and make two This includes three workshops with
the Friday night, Saturday pieces of work - one can be a picture all materials or ingredients, two
night entertainment, welcome or a panel for a cushion cover and nights of accommodation, a cookery
drinks, breakfast, lunch and three- one 3D piece. demonstration on the Friday night,
course dinners. M £560 NM £610 Saturday night entertainment,
M £375 NM £415 8-12 July 2019 welcome drinks, breakfast, lunch and
30 November – 2 December 2018 three-course dinners.
M £375 NM £415
Summer Schools and Denman Specials
Denman Summer School:
Christmas Getaway Weekend Mosaics with Priscilla Wheater 1-3 February 2019
Come away for a break before This course involves making mosaics
Christmas! Treat yourself to a for outdoor items for the garden or New Year Country House Party
relaxing few days with the girls, learn conservatory. We will create items Join us for the beloved Denman
something new and even pick up using the direct method. You have New Year House Party. Stay in the
some inspiration for starting a new a varied choice of ideas: a small beautiful Georgian manor house and
hobby next year. Start your weekend garden table, a bird bath, which enjoy seventeen acres of parkland for
with a cocktail, choose 3 workshops can be worked using old bases that three nights of pure indulgence! While
from our exciting offer, enjoy our need resurrection or bought from a you’re here, try different workshops
Saturday night entertainment and go garden centre. and learn new skills, while enjoying a
home on Sunday refreshed for the M £610 NM £670 wide variety of entertainment.
Christmas preparations. 24-28 June 2019 M £560 NM £620
M £375 NM £415 30 December 2018 –
7-9 December 2018 Denman Summer School: 2 January 2019
Upholstery with Joanna Heptinstall
Denman Summer School: Enjoy Oxfordshire In this practical course you will learn Platinum Special: Decorative Paper Cutting
with John Vigar and Anna Steven the skills of traditional upholstery with Christine Green
Visit Blenheim Palace, Kelmscott, while restoring your own piece of Get into the celebratory spirit for
Buscot Park and the heart of Oxford furniture under the watchful eye of Denman’s 70th anniversary and
University – the Sheldonian Theatre, your professional tutor. Working with master creative paper cutting. With
Schools Quad and Radcliffe Square. traditional hand tools and materials the help of lots of fabulous resources
Stroll through the Covered Market such as hessian, horse hair and and encouragement you will learn
and tour Jesus College. Following calico, you will re-stuff, re-build, how to cut safely and accurately,
a visit to New College and gardens, stitch, smooth and pull your furniture how to design for successful paper
take a Thames River Cruise to Iffley back to glory. Dining chairs, cutting and how to get really creative
Lock before returning to Denman for footstools, piano stools and ottomans with this bang on trend craft that
afternoon tea. On the final day, the are all suitable projects. is low cost and highly rewarding.
course culminates with a morning visit M £610 NM £670 You will soon be amazing friends
to the Ashmolean Museum. 5-9 August 2019 and family with hand cut cards.
M £675 NM £735 M £360 NM £400
22-26 July 2019 26-28 November 2018
10 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.ukSome of our lovely students request to get back together with
their tutor and fellow learners, and of course, we accept! This
REUNIONS list of courses is by invitation only, or reunions, so if you’re
interested, please contact us (or the tutor), to get booked on!
Beading Reunion with Pat Trott Drum for Fun Reunion May’s Enthusiastic Stitchers
Beading is therapeutic, relaxing with Heather Summers with May Martin
and very addictive. Many wonderful Drumming is great fun, very focusing, This course provides an opportunity
jewellery items can be made using a powerful way of making music with for a group of experienced stitchers
needle, thread and beads. There other people. This course is suitable to come to Denman and work on
are many different stitches and this for those who have done any of the a project of their choice
course offers you the opportunity to Drum For Fun courses, or who have (by invitation only).
learn some of them. You will begin done a little drumming before. M £610 NM £670
with an introduction to the materials M £300 NM £340 7-11 January 2019
needed, an explanation of some of 27 February – 1 March 2019
the stitches and the showing of many Silver Jewellery: Silversmithing Reunion
samples. Each different stitch will Family Tree Reunion with Jessica Feinstein with Pauline Payne
be demonstrated and the students This course is a chance to meet up For students who have previously
encouraged to work at their own pace. with other students researching their attended one of Pauline’s courses.
Not suitable for complete beginners. family trees, share information and This course is an opportunity to
M £560 NM £610 success stories, and you will have practise and further extend your
11-15 February 2019 plenty of time to do more research jewellery making skills.
with support from your tutor. This M £485 NM £545
Buttonhole Beauties with May Martin course is suitable for anyone who has 30 September – 3 October 2019
An opportunity to work on a project previously attended one of Jessica’s
of your choice with expert guidance courses at Denman. Textile Beas with Lynda Monk
at every stage. The possibilities are M £330 NM £370 Students will construct a fabric in a
endless; from dress making to soft 12-14 April 2019 variety of ways, using a selection of
Reunions
furnishing (by invitation only). fabrics, eg: lace, silks, velvets etc.,
M £610 NM £670 May’s Bees Reunion with May Martin in colours of their choice leading to a
3-7 June 2019 This course provides an opportunity final piece of work (by invitation only).
for a group of experienced stitchers M £300 NM £340
to come to Denman and work 29-31 March 2019
on a project of their choice
(by invitation only).
M £610 NM £670
12-16 August 2019
01865 391 991 Follow us on 11Tuesday
27 November
Special 2018, from
6pm
Events
Thursday
21 March 2019
An Evening of Cocktails and Flowers
from 2pm M £20 NM £25
Ring in the celebratory season by combining two of life’s greatest
pleasures: Cocktails and Flowers! Add a bit of sparkle to your day with an
evening spent in good company at Denman – we’ll be shaking up some
delicious cocktails and mocktails with Lindy Wildsmith for a sip of bubbly
or two, followed up with a fabulous floral demonstration from Anna Steven.
You’ll go home in the party spirit with this festive pick-me-up!
Oast to Host
M £42 NM £47 Tuesday
Looking for tasty gluten free baking? 9 April 2019,
No problem! This type of cooking doesn’t from 2pm
have to be tricky… Claire and Sally, the
minds behind Oast to Host, have been Daphne Selphe –
taking on the challenge! When it comes The World’s Oldest Professional Model
to exploration and experience, get a
step closer to gluten free mastery with a
M £42 NM £47
fabulous demonstration from Claire who’ll
Spend an afternoon with one of fashion’s most recognisable
show you how to make and roll gluten free
faces: Daphne Selfe – the world’s oldest professional model.
pastry with ease! You’ll also come away In her own words, Daphne doesn’t ‘do retiring’ and has fronted
having learnt the rather special recipe some of the industry’s biggest campaigns – modelling for
to their award winning quiche – one that Dolce and Gabanna, Red or Dead, TK Maxx, Primark and
promises no ‘soggy bottom’! Join us for more. Daphne and her daughter Claire will be sharing
ways to get the most out of your baking images and secrets from Daphne’s extraordinary
and sample some treats that’ll get you life and career. Join us for a celebration of diversity
excited to recreate the magic at home! and change in fashion – lit up by
Daphne’s zest for life.
12 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.ukWednesday
28 November
2018, from
2pm
Friday
5 April
2019
Exploring Berlin
Bird Identification Day with Simon Gregor
M £67 NM £72 M £42 NM £47
Are you interesting in learning how Denman are delighted to welcome back Simon Gregor, this time exploring
to identify bird species by sight and the history of Berlin from 1870 to the present day, from the unification of
sound? Denman are delighted to be Germany in the late 19th century, to its reunification just over a century
working with Cotswold Rural Skills later. The upheaval of the First World War, the collapse of the ruling
for a fantastic day event where, by Hohenzollern dynasty, the foundation of the Weimar Republic, the rise
the end of the day, you should be and fall of the Nazis, the division of Germany, the Cold War, and the
able to identify between 10 and 20 building and then collapse of the Berlin Wall - all are writ large in the
common Cotswolds bird species, landscape and architecture of the city. Yet even after all this upheaval and
through their appearance and range division, Berlin still retains the capacity to reinvent itself, to be something
of calls. This day is a combination new - and to retain a sense of hope and positivity which makes it an
of field-work involving two one-hour endlessly fascinating place to visit.
bird walks around Denman and
classroom sessions directed at
the species encountered, plus
information about the species
themselves, from their habits,
behaviours, anatomy and other
useful information. Tuesday
23 April 2019,
from 1pm
Denman Bake Off Challenge
M £42 NM £47
With our flagship WI Cookery School, love of a good
old-fashioned get-together and Bake Off: The
Professionals alma mater (Chef Manager and Tutor Kelly
Mauger), it was only a matter of time before we answered
your call for tents, tea and a healthy dose of competition!
We’re proud to present to you The Great Denman
Bake-Off – your chance to shine in the tent with that top
secret signature bake! Teams of two will be given a fun
challenge, the chance to make something magical, have
it judged by our experts and potentially win the Denman
Bake Off crown! Naturally, be prepared for plenty of
giggles, cuppas and treats to keep you going.
01865 391 991 Follow us on 13Please note that these pages do not include sold out courses,
A-Z Residential Courses day schools, family workshops or specials. You can find those
on the previous pages!
COOKERY Afternoon Teas with Kelly Mauger Artisan Drinks with Lindy Wildsmith
Create a high-end afternoon tea Make your own delicious
A Taste Of Italy with Lindy Wildsmith featuring a mixture of traditional seasonal cordials, infusions, cocktails
and Sue McKenna and modern styles. Recipes will and mocktails ... by capturing the
Whether you are planning a trip to include scones, battenburg, raspberry scents and flavours of the summer
Italy, enjoy Italian cuisine or just want and vanilla marshmallow filled season and transforming them into
to try out the language to see whether chocolate teacakes, macarons both alcoholic and soft drinks to
you might like to learn it in the future, and a demonstration and tasting enable you to enhance ice cream,
this is the course for you. Over the of sandwiches. jelly, cakes, cocktails or to give as
two days you will learn conversational M £375 NM £410 a gift. Cocktails and punches don’t
Italian, discover the history and 15-17 April 2019 have to be alcoholic; learn which
culture of Italy and then cook up ingredients pack a punch to your
Italian favourites in the WI Cookery An Introduction to Baking drink but still allow you to drive home.
School. Not to be missed! with Katie Churchard We will of course be making some
M £375 NM £410 Join Katie for a weekend of inspiration alcoholic drinks too!
and skill building in the kitchen, M £375 NM £410
21-23 August 2019 touching on pastry, bread, cake and 24-26 June 2019
A Taste of Spain with Peter Lien biscuits. Recipes will include bakewell
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Spain is rightly famous for its tart, chocolate chip cookies, cheese Artisan Winter Preserves
simple cooking using fantastic and cumin bread and a chocolate with Lindy Wildsmith
produce. From classic paellas to the cake to be decorated with a black If you are into jam making and
Moorish inspired cookery of forest twist. preserving, why not try your hand
Andalucia, this course will cover some M £405 NM £445 at our winter themed preserving
of the most popular Iberian dishes. 11-13 January 2019 course featuring the pumpkin and
Plus a selection of tapas dishes and orange marmalade, ginger and lemon
some sweet treats too! Artisan Bread with Dede Liss curd, spiced root vegetable chutney,
M £405 NM £445 Take your bread making to another fermented pickled shallots, gut busting
level by learning the art of sourdoughs Korean kimchi, confit of duck and
11-13 March 2019 and long fermentation dough. potted venison.
Suitable for beginners and M £300 NM £328
experienced bakers. 30 January – 1 February 2019
M £375 NM £410
15-17 February 2019
28-30 June 2019
Ingredients
are included in
the cost of a
cookery course
What’s more
they will all be
prepared for you
Proud Sponsors of in advance!
the WI Cookery School
14 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.ukAutumnal Baking with Jill Arthur Cake Decorating with Natalie Green Cooking the Americas with Peter Lien
Join Jill on a baking masterclass as You will start with baking using a This course is a journey through
she incorporates seasonal fruits and tried and tested recipe for a well the Americas, with stops in Spanish
vegetables into some of your favourite risen and firm cake with good influenced Argentina, Peru, Mexico
or soon to be favourite bakes. keeping qualities which is perfect for and the USA.
Covering an array of cakes, doughs, celebration cakes. Then you will look M £405 NM £445
biscuits and pastry, this course is at all the professional techniques to 27-29 March 2019
one not to miss for anyone who loves prepare your cake for decoration,
baking and wants to extend their cover with sugarpaste and add Curries of the World with Peter Lien
recipe repertoire and knowledge. incredible decorative touches. You This course will be a real
M £375 NM £410 will be stacking, dowelling, crimping, adventure. Take a journey into
2-4 September 2019 colouring, making cut outs and cuisines that you haven’t tried before.
flowers and even doing some royal The Caribbean, Malaysia, and even
Baking for Market Stalls iced piping. You will come away South Africa – they all have their
with Alison Haigh with everything you need to know to own curries. So join us to sample
If you are looking for new ideas for create amazing cakes of your own at fragrant fish, meat and vegetable
products to sell at your local market, home and some professional tips and dishes flavoured with spice pastes
join us for this baking course. You will secrets too. and powders.
be making a selection of sweet and M £375 NM £410 M £405 NM £445
savoury products including chocolate, 17-19 July 2019 5-7 November 2018
beetroot and cherry loaf cakes, peanut 8-10 April 2019
butter and maple syrup cookies and Christmas Afternoon Teas
lumberjack tray bake slices. with Katie Churchard Eastern Feasts with Ashley Keen
M £405 NM £445 Whether you want to wow friends Simple, colourful and vibrant food
A-Z Residential Courses – Cookery
12-14 November 2018 or are hosting a party during the from the great reaches of the Middle
festive season, this course will East, guaranteed to bring sunshine
Bread Baking for the Home teach you how to create a high- to any occasion. Explore techniques,
with Alison Haigh end afternoon tea pastries, cakes ingredients and recipes inspired by
Alison grew up in an artisan bakery and sandwiches with a mixture of travels through the Bosphorus, Black
and she will be sharing her traditional and modern styles, all with Sea, Aegean, Mediterranean, North
experience on this special weekend a seasonal Christmas theme. Africa, and Persia.
bread course. You will learn how four M £405 NM £445 M £340 NM £380
simple ingredients can be combined 23-25 November 2018 30 September – 2 October 2019
to produce wonderful breads. Recipes
include rosemary and potato focaccia,
cinnamon swirls, sultana and walnut
loaf, and curried naan bread.
M £405 NM £445
9-11 November 2018
5-7 April 2019
01865 391 991 Follow us on 15Everyday Preserves with Vivien Lloyd Festive Baking and Treats with Linda Hewett Gourmet Salads with Ashley Keen
Learn how to make a marmalade, Sugar and spice and all things nice! Forget limp lettuce and curling
jam, chutney, curd, pickle, syrup, Special bakes and treats to see you cucumbers, salads have gone glam!
and fruit in alcohol. For those who through the Festive season. Recipes Salads are no longer an afterthought
enjoy entering competitions, there will include spiced orange and or a side dish. They can be a real
will be hints and tips from the tutor cranberry sauce, turkey and stuffing showpiece of the dinner table. A
who is an NFWI Preserves Judge. pie, mince pies, Christmas crumble, selection of satisfying, interesting
Included in the course will be sourcing stilton and walnut pate, cranberry and salads that will cover dinner, lunch or
ingredients, choosing equipment, rosemary focaccia and a bread wreath both, eat as they are or topped with
preparation and cooking fruit and centre piece. All gift wrapped with a piece of fish or meat. No boring
vegetables, how to test pectin content, stress free ideas to use leftovers. packed lunches ever again!
types of sugar and vinegar to use, M £375 NM £410 M £375 NM £410
how to test for a set, finishing and 3-5 December 2018 19-21 August 2019
sealing preserves.
M £375 NM £410 Flavours of Asia with Peter Lien Gourmet Salads with Peter Lien
8-10 February 2019 Asia plays a huge influence on Colourful, nutritious, filling and
Peter’s cookery, so join him on a portable, learn the secrets of how to
Express Dinner Parties with Alison Haigh journey through the Far East, stopping use pulses and grains alongside fresh
Take the stress out of cooking off in Japan, China, South East Asia or roasted vegetables, herbs and nuts
for dinner parties by learning some and the Indian subcontinent. Starting to create dishes that work as individual
speedy yet impressive starters, mains with a selection of Pan-Asian street meals or buffet table winners.
and desserts to wow your guests. food, which you will prepare for lunch, M £405 NM £445
M £405 NM £445 the course will also include mee 13-15 May 2019
23-25 January 2019 goreng, beef rendang and dal with roti 26-28 June 2019
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bread and Korean beef.
M £405 NM £445 Greek Cookery with Ashley Keen
28-30 January 2019 Using the simplest of ingredients,
join Ashley to create authentic
spanakopita and moussaka, fresh
and vibrant mezze bursting with
flavour, all washed down with a
glass of Ouzo! Yaimas!
M £375 NM £410
14-16 August 2019
Heritage Wheat Special - Bread Weekend
with Dede Liss
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Designed to make life simpler in the easier to digest. Learn how to make
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about creating great food. Magimix Not suitable for coeliacs.
combines the best cooking traditions M £375 NM £410
and technology to create the most 31 July – 2 August 2019
reliable and robust food processor Indian Cookery with Peter Lien
in the world with an unbeatable Join Peter to make a selection
of his favourite dishes, including
30 year motor guarantee. curries, pickles, chutneys, breads, and
rice, as he shares his Indian heritage.
M £405 NM £445
Find out more at www.magimix.co.uk 18-20 February 2019
16 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.ukItalian Breads with Mariella Bliss Let’s Make Cheese - Part 3 (The Blues) Mediterranean Breads with Dede Liss
Mariella has been successfully baking with Louise Talbot This is a course for anyone who
and selling focaccia and ciabatta for Louise will show you how to make loves bread! Dede will show you how
over ten years. Come and learn the blue cheese and a range of delicious to use the simplest of ingredients:
secret of Italian bread making using goodies also incorporating blue flour, water, salt and yeast alongside
a biga starter or handling a very wet cheeses. This is a follow-on course so Mediterranean flavours including olive
dough for light but fully flavoured it is essential that you have completed oil, olives, aromatic herbs, spices
bread. The recipes include; focaccia, the introductory course first as it will and citrus, to make a fabulous variety
ciabatta, breadsticks and ‘schiacciata’ have given you the grounding and of breads, some of which you may
with grapes and vin santo. knowledge to make the more already be familiar with and some
M £375 NM £410 complex cheeses. which will be brand new!
28-30 August 2019 M £405 NM £445 M £375 NM £410
14-16 January 2019 3-5 May 2019
La Dolce Vita : Italian Desserts and Sweet
Treats with Mariella Bliss Low Carb Living with Ashley Keen Mediterranean Cuisine with Peter Lien
Join Mariella for a sweet-toothed trip The course will cover family favourites Join our cruise through the Med
around Italy, featuring Italian sweet that have been adapted to use stopping off in sun drenched ports of
treat and dessert favourites including vegetables and pulses instead of Greek islands, North Africa, France
pannacotta, tiramisu, brioche, biscotti pasta, potato or rice. There will also and Italy. We’ll make the most of the
and a delicious almond and lemon be dishes that are naturally high in fantastic ingredients that the region
Capri cake. Also, discover and enjoy protein like shakshuka baked eggs has to offer including olive oil from the
lesser known (but equally delicious) or lentil dhal. This course would suit groves of Greece, Italian cheeses,
recipes like Venetian carnival favourite people who want to reduce the refined and piquillo peppers from Spain. Try
‘Chiacchiere’ (silly chats!) and Tuscan carbohydrate from their diet due to Moroccan chicken with charmoula,
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‘Schiacciata’, a sweet focaccia filled blood sugar imbalance, weight loss or Lebanese meze, and Italian stuffed
and topped with grapes, fennel seeds, for generally healthier lighter living. peppers. Who needs a holiday?
rosemary and Vin Santo! M £375 NM £410 M £405 NM £445
M £375 NM £410 1-3 May 2019 17-19 June 2019
3-5 July 2019
Magic Fridge - Menu 2 Mediterranean Magic in Autumn
Let’s Make Cheese - Part 1 with Alex Mackay with Alex Mackay
with Louise Talbot The Magic Fridge is the course to Autumn is a mystical time where
Join farmer’s wife and cheese inspire you and to give you the tools the harvests of wild mushrooms,
maker Louise for a fascinating course to cook simple and delicious food chestnuts and grapes set off a
in making cheese at home. Louise every day without spending a fortune. colourful landscape. The food is still
will show you how to make a range It has all the advantages of cheating light with lots of the remaining joys of
of soft cheeses using domestic without the guilt because you prepare summer but warming enough to take
kitchen utensils and cover halloumi, and preserve the magic yourself. you through to winter. This is holiday
mozzarella, mascarpone, butter, From there on in just swing open your food made accessible to you at home.
cream cheese, and ricotta, as well fridge door for a little magic whenever This course will be full of dishes
as a discussion on the principles of you want to eat well. This course that are ablaze with colour and full
hard cheese. contains brand new recipes from our of vibrant flavours from everybody’s
M £405 NM £445 first Magic Fridge course. favourite cuisine.
14-16 November 2018 M £405 NM £445 M £405 NM £445
8-10 July 2019 1-3 April 2019 16-18 September 2019
01865 391 991 Follow us on 17Midweek Meals with Ashley Keen Modern Indian Cookery with Bhavini Mistry Moorish and Middle Eastern Menu 2
Many of us don’t have the time Immerse yourself in an array of with Peter Lien
or inclination to create culinary aromatic spices to create delicious, Join Peter for further recipes,
masterpieces after a long, busy day, authentic Indian dishes with a featuring a brand new selection of
however we still want to eat well. Join contemporary twist that you can easily dishes from the region. The group will
Ashley to learn how to make some recreate at home. Dishes will include: prepare a new range of mezze dishes
interesting, quick, delicious and chicken tikka massala, aromatic for lunch on the first day, and then
nutritionally balanced meals to spice pilaf rice, chappatis, tadka dahl move on to a variety of slow cooked
up your recipe repertoire. and pakoras. dishes, and sweet treats.
M £375 NM £410 M £375 NM £410 M £405 NM £445
6-8 February 2019 13-15 September 2019 21-23 January 2019
29 April – 1 May 2019
Mindful Baking with Alison Haigh Modern Vegetarian with Ashley Keen
Join us for a weekend of mindful Are you or a family member Patisserie with Kelly Mauger
baking, using a range of wholesome vegetarian? Love to have dinner Cover many of the classics of French
gluten-free and unrefined ingredients parties but do not want to cook two pastry work using an array of skills
to create healthier alternatives to your different meals? Let us introduce which you will learn and practice,
favourite sweet and savoury bakes. you to an array of exciting, modern including blind baking and piping.
M £405 NM £445 vegetarian meals. Even the carnivores We will make base recipes of pate
25-27 January 2019 will not miss the meat! sucree, choux pastry and crème
M £375 NM £410 patissiere which we will turn into tart
Modern Cakes with Katie Churchard 6-8 March 2019 au citron, choux buns filled with crème
& Kelly Mauger diplomat and macarons.
Join Katie and Kelly for a cake Moorish and Middle Eastern with Peter Lien M £375 NM £410
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baking and decorating course At the crossroads of Europe, Asia and
10-12 June 2019
using traditional and contemporary Africa, the region known as the Middle
techniques to create modern East has taken its culinary influences Patisserie (Part 2) with Katie Churchard
masterpieces, including mirror glaze from many places and people, This course is ideal for anyone who
cakes, an illusion decorated rainbow including the Moors. Learn about the has joined us for the first patisserie
cake with ombre frosting and a traditions of Moroccan, Persian and course and would like to extend their
mojito flavoured naked cake using Lebanese cookery and local knowledge. It will bring new ideas and
crystallised edible flowers ingredients such as sumac, salted further creative techniques as you make
for decoration. lemons, pistachios and rose water. an opera gateau and a Paris brest.
M £375 NM £410 Together you’ll make a delicious lunch M £405 NM £445
of mezze salads and dips, then go on 3-5 April 2019
7-9 November 2018
to make Persian chicken with harissa
pilaf, a fruity tagine, and some
delicious orange and sumac biscuits.
M £405 NM £445
11-13 February 2019
3-5 June 2019
18 Visit the website for full course information www.denman.org.ukPizza, Pasta and Sauces Weekend Summer Baking with Jill Arthur Vegetarian Italian with Mariella Bliss
with Mariella Bliss Join Jill on a baking masterclass as Under the tuition of Italian cook and
Join our authentic Neapolitan cook she incorporates seasonal fruits and food producer Mariella, you’ll cook
and tutor Mariella to learn how to vegetables into some of your favourite some delicious vegetarian dishes that
make fresh pizza and pasta and or soon to be favourite bakes. even meat eaters will love, parmigiana
extend your repertoire beyond Covering an array of cakes, doughs, di melenzane, risotto with Sagrantino
bolognese sauce! Learn how to biscuits and pastry, this course is wine, rolls with avocado, rocket and
make pizza dough and fresh egg and one not to miss for anyone who loves parmigiano to name just a few.
flour pasta from scratch - tagliatelle, baking and wants to extend their M £375 NM £410
pappardelle and tagliolini, then create recipe repertoire and knowledge. 24-26 April 2019
some delicious and varied sauces M £375 NM £410
which will complement the pasta 12-14 June 2019 Winter in the Mediterranean
shapes, including a mushroom and with Alex Mackay
Marsala sauce and the famous ‘pasta Summer Preserves with Vivien Lloyd Winter food doesn’t need to be drab
alla norma’ sauce, plus you will have Celebrate the arrival summer by and this is a course full of wonderful
an array of authentic toppings for your joining us to make preserves using ways to spice up your winter fare.
pizzas to choose from. recipes championed by the WI. Upside down lemon curd and
M £375 NM £410 Capture the flavours of summer for grapefruit tart, seabass with winter
29-31 March 2019 the colder months ahead. Learn how minestrone and a winter version of
to make sweet and savoury jams, Greek salad are just a few of the
Scandinavian Cookery with Linda Hewett jelly, curd, cordial, chutney, vinegar fantastic dishes you will learn. But
Learn the art of Hygge and Fika. and preserve fruit in alcohol. more than the recipes themselves,
Linda will share her experience M £375 NM £410 you will learn a ton of techniques that
of living beyond the Arctic Circle 19-21 June 2019 you can apply to many other dishes,
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in Northern Norway. Scandinavian so that your winter food can sparkle
cookery revolves around a varied diet Thai Cookery with Peter Lien with Mediterranean sunshine no
of seasonal produce to be enjoyed. Learn about the exciting flavours matter what the weather.
Recipes will include meatballs, of Thai cookery and the art of M £405 NM £445
dreamy mash and cranberry sauce, balancing the characteristic taste 13-15 February 2019
Johansson potatoes, Scandi fish sensations of sweet, sour, saltiness
soup, Nordic open sandwiches and and heat. The course will feature World Street Food with Peter Lien
rye pancakes with berries and syrup. some of the country’s most famous Some of the most delicious food
M £375 NM £410 dishes, including salads, noodle in the world isn’t served in fancy
dishes and, of course, curries made restaurants, but from stalls and carts
12-14 April 2019
from home-made curry paste. in bustling markets or on busy streets.
Simple Super Foods Everyday M £405 NM £445 Why not take your tastebuds on a
with Ashley Keen 29-31 May 2019 global cookery tour visiting countries
How to make the healthy choice as diverse as Austria, Spain, Turkey,
without compromising on flavour. The Amalfi Coast on your Table Mexico and Japan?
Super foods are everywhere you with Mariella Bliss M £405 NM £445
look: in the news, supermarkets, Join Mariella as she takes you on a 24-26 May 2019
magazines and on television. But do culinary journey to the Amalfi Coast.
you know which ones you can use Cook together the most delicious World Street Food Menu 2
to create tasty everyday recipes the scialatielli (traditional pasta shape) with Peter Lien
whole family will enjoy? with prawns and lemon zest, bake Take your tastebuds on a global
M £375 NM £410 sea bass with potatoes and cherry cookery tour by joining Peter for a
tomatoes, then discover the secret of second instalment of one of our most
1-3 July 2019
a perfect Neapolitan pizza. Learn to popular courses?
make your own potato gnocchi alla M £405 NM £445
sorrentina and enjoy a ‘lemon delice’ 25-27 February 2019
and a glass (or two) of limoncello!
M £375 NM £410
Join as a Friend of 15-17 May 2019
Denman for just
£75 and enjoy
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