Baking weekend from 12 to 14 November
Baking is FUN, though you don't need to put quite as much energy into it as these two to get a good result!!
Homemade bread smells wonderful, is great to eat, and very enjoyable to make, so come and try your hand at it.
Add some scones and a few muffins, and you have the most important parts of an afternoon tea. Very satisfying to make as well as to eat!
Tine is not a profesional cook or baker, but after having baked all our bread for the last year, she has some recipes that are easy and seem to work every time. Enjoy a weekend in our farmhouse kitchen where we will try to make bread, scones, and muffins. Afterward we will reward ourselves with a delicious tea!
There will also be a mini "Lowthwaite baking book" to take home, as well as the leftovers from your day's work.
Programme
| 12/11 | You can arrive when you want, there will be something nice that has been home baked waiting for you! |
13/11
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Breakfast as usual from 7:30 to 8.30. At 10:30 the fun starts! First we will lay the dough for the bread. The basic recipe is the same, but you can chose to do a white bread, wholemeal with a few extra bits, brown sunflower with honey, or a rye and pumpkin seed bread. All the flour will be organic and stoneground.
The one "secret" that Tine has found about making her own bread is that you have to give the bread time enough to rise, which it normally will do, even if you have got it a bit wrong. Just like "you can't hurry love", it's no good trying to hurry yeast! While the bread is rising happily, we will make some muffins and scones. To make it practically possible, some will be making scones first and some muffins. Tine is not a scone specialist (after all she is Danish!), but the recipe used seems to work every time, and the scones rise well and taste good! In between all the scones and muffins, we will somehow get a light lunch as well as "knock the bread dough down" and get it ready for the second rise, and then finally bake it. Timings are not so easy to give, but by 18.30 all will (hopefully) be finished and we will have made a great tea. Lowthwaite will add the jam, clotted cream, cheese etc. Tea will of course be provided, but if you want anything stronger to fortify you after the day, you are welcome to bring it. |
| 14/11 | The usual breakfast at 7:30 to 8:30 - unless of course someone would like to get up rather early to make some of the baking for that! |
Price
The price is £115 per person sharing. This includes two nights Bed and Breakfast in a shared room plus the food and activities above.
For a single room, there is a supplement of £30 for the two nights.
If a couple comes, and one wants to do the baking, but the other would prefer to do something else, it will be the normal room price, plus £40 for the person participating, and £10 extra for the second person - assuming he/she is joining in on the tea only.
Please book by phone or email, since the online booking can't handle this.
Confirmation
In case we only get a few interested, we will discuss with the ones booked on what they want to do - whether a simplified arrangement, just a normal stay, or simply not come.