Food & Drink
"Love your food and your food will love you!"

Join our experienced team of professional tutors and enjoy a day in our classrooms and kitchens preparing food and drink using ingredients from our own land.

Our courses include:

Bread Making for the Terrified
With Tracey Smith, BBC Broadcaster and Downshifting Expert

Tracey will take the fear out of bread making and teach you all you need to know about basic bread making plus a more exotic recipe. As featured on BBC Radio.

Posh & Exotic Bread Making
With Tracey Smith, BBC Braodcaster and Downshifting Expert

If you have the basic knowledge of bread making, take it to the next level with Tracey. She will teach you to make a range of breads using different recipes and Magdalen’s fresh seasonal produce. You will even be able to take your bread home and impress your family with your new skills

Christmas Bread Making
With Tracey Smith, BBC Broadcaster and Downshifting Expert

Learn the joys of bread making and produce some tasty festive breads.

Successful Gluten-free Baking
With Brian Murphy, Master Miller

Whether you are baking for yourself or someone else, learn how to do it so that everyone will enjoy it. You can produce top-quality breads, cakes and more with simple intrsuction and the right ingredients. SUitable for wheat-, dairy- and gluten-free diets.

Sausage & Pate Making at Home
With Tracey Smith, BBC Broadcaster and Downshifting Expert

Learn how easy it is to make sausages in your own home. This is an introductory hands-on course suitable for the enthusiast or the small scale farm producer. You will be able to make up recipes as required using ingrediants from the garden and larder.

Meat Curing
With John Woodward

This practical course will demonstrate the traditions of meat preparation including hams, bacon, beef and poultry. Prepare succulent meals ready for any table. As featured in Country Living Magazine April 2009.

Cheesemaking
With Rita Ash

Spend an enjoyable day at the Magdalen Project learning from a practical demonstration how to make soft and hard cheeses on a small scale.

Cider Making
With Colin & Julie Comben

A practical course with part of the day being spent milling and pressing apples for juice and cider. There will be a demonstration and discussion about the different equipment used and as the day progresses you will find out about different methods of making and dispensing cider and juice and also pasteurisation. You will be able to take home samples of juice to be fermented.

Preserving
With John Woodward

Discover the art of preserving your own produce from pickles and jams to relishes and chutneys

Wild Foraging for food and health
With Robin Harford

Search the fields and hedgerows to find out how to create a sumptuous meal from wild plants.

We are committed to expanding all our courses but if you are interested in attending courses on any other food style course please contact us and we can add your name to our waiting lists.

Please view our schedule for dates, times and prices of these courses.

Food & Drink "Love your food and your food will love you!"

Food & Drink
"Love your food and your food will love you!"