Course Details - 2008

Here are full details of courses for the coming year and how to book. Because there are many more courses this year, they are in sections.

If you would like full details by post, please contact us for copies of the Courses and Children's Courses leaflets.

• Baking, Breadmaking, and Vegetarian Cooking Courses
• Creative Children's Courses including several new ones !

 

Follow these links for details of how to book and accommodation, or go back to the summary pages on baking and cooking courses or new courses and children's courses.

If you would like to be put on the e-Mailing List please contact us at organicflour@aol.com.

Courses start at 10am with coffee, include a delicious vegetarian lunch and finish shortly after 3pm except the Milling Course which finishes at 4pm.

Children's courses are shorter (and cost less - usually £10per child) starting at 10am and finishing at 12.45pm.

Why not make a weekend of it by coming on the combined Bread and More Bread courses? (starred dates shown below)

What to do with the harvest of fruit and berries - crab apples, elderberries, rosehips and sloes. We will make jams and jellies, a pud or two and maybe some gin!

Start the new year by putting some spring in your dough! We are running some of the most popular bread-making courses, especially for people who have only just heard about the Watermill Baking Courses, or who have been meaning to get round to coming and haven't quite made it yet. We will try to run extra ones if there is sufficient demand, so if you can't get to any of these, don't worry, just let us have your name and address and we'll keep in touch. The courses are an excellent way of learning more about baking and cooking using as many organic ingredients as possible.

These will be run by Ana Jones. Here she introduces the different courses:

Making bread only takes a few minutes, so do you really need a breadmaker? If yes, see below! This course is for those who want to learn from the beginning or find out how to make better bread. Ana will demonstrate breadmaking and talk about flours and the milling process, and then everyone will make their own bread to take home and will then be able to make excellent bread! There will be a guided tour of the Mill - the more that you learn about flour and milling the more interesting it all becomes!

• Wednesday 11th June

• Saturday 5th July* FULLY BOOKED

• Saturday 6th September*

• Saturday 29th November*

NB * Starred dates show combined courses running over the whole weekend - Bread and More Bread! You don't have to come to both though!

Once you are confident in your skills we can move on to look at other methods like the No Knead Grant Loaf. We will explore how possible it is to make a sourdough plant using natural yeasts; and make wheat-free and lower gluten bread with flours like Miller's Magic, Rye and Barley.

• Sunday 6th July*

• Sunday 7th September*

• Sunday 30th November*

NB * Starred dates show combined courses running over the whole weekend - Bread and More Bread! You don't have to come to both though!

Lots of people think making pastry with anything other than fine white flour is impossible. It isn't, and in this course we will make simple pastry with 100% wholewheat flour, quiches, as well as jam tarts, sweet, choux and hot water pastries for all occasions.

• Wednesday 12th November

Home-made soups are delicious and very easy to make once you know what you want to do. We will discuss different soups and what ingredients go together before we make some for you to try.

• Saturday 20th September

Many more people would like to make tasty and easily prepared vegetarian meals. This is an introduction to the wide variety of ingredients - and what to do with them. We will all make some savoury dishes for lunch and then, having been busy cooking, we'll finish with a feast! Ingredients and recipes will vary depending on the time of year.

• Saturday 4th October - Autumn Vegetarian Cooking

• Thursday 20th November - Making a Winter Vegetarian Meal

People often get a bit stuck with salads, but they can be exciting and fun to make and very appealing to look at. We will make some seasonal salads to get you going, and discuss other ideas of what would go together, including grains, pulses, nuts and seeds, so you can experiment for yourself at home. We will also make salad cream and some dressings.

• Saturday 14th June

• Saturday 8th November

Willow Christmas Decorations with Phil Bradley

Get into the Christmas spirit with Phil Bradley and enjoy creating your own unique willow Christmas decorations in warm and homely surroundings, complete with a delicious vegetarian Christmas lunch.

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Baking courses are for 6-8 people. We can arrange special courses for groups. We book on a first-come, first-serve basis so if there is only one date when you can come please book as soon as possible.

The cost of the day courses will be £55.

Please ask for details of local accommodation if you would like to stay overnight. Prices include VAT.

NB Children's Courses cost £10 per child per course. Courses that run over two mornings cost £20. Adults accompanying younger children pay the same amount as each child.

Please complete the form below and then email, or print out and post or fax back giving details of:

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Then:

Post a cheque as a deposit of £10 per person booked ( £5 per child) made payable to "The Watermill" to: Course Bookings, The Watermill, Little Salkeld, Penrith, CUMBRIA CA10 INN

OR Ring us on 01768 881523 and pay by creditcard.

For more information e-mail - organicflour@aol.com

 

Available for either self catering or with serve-yourself organic breakfasts. Village location just 5 miles from the mill (transport available). This cosy accommodation is the perfect place stay if you are attending one of our courses - or for a short break to explore the North Pennines and Eden Valley. Tel: 01768 88480