Swinton Park‘s Cookery School is a stunning setting for a cookery class – if you’re looking to book for yourself, or as a gift, please find some upcoming courses below:
Cookery Day Course – Sushi for Beginners
Saturday 4 June
For people who appreciate sushi but to a limited degree and would like to learn more about its origins and the origins of other Japanese dishes.
Learn from Simon Phillips how cook perfect sushi rice and how to master other basic sushi skills, plus all the essential ingredients required to enjoy sushi at home.
A sushi lunch at the end of the session served at in the demonstration kitchen.
£95 per person
Cookery Day Course – Fish and Shellfish
Saturday 18 June, Saturday 9 July and Saturday 30 July
This course will teach you about the wide variety of unendangered shellfish and fish found in our local waters – learn about boning and filleting fish (including a master class in how to fillet a flat fish), shaped and flavoured breads, how to make sweet pastry and creating stocks, sauces, soups from the bi-product, how to cook the perfect risotto and making ice cream.
£160 per person
Vegetarian Dinner Parties
Saturday 2 July
Ideal for people with cooking experience but who feel they are limited by their current range of skills, this intermediate course introduces advanced skills and food styles.
£150 per person
(partners/friends can join for lunch – £30 per person, booking essential)
Cookery Day Course – Grow & Eat your Own: The Kitchen Garden
Saturday 16th July and Saturday 6th August
Commencing with a tour of the 4-acre hotel walled garden, the acclaimed garden designer Susan Cunliffe-Lister explains her design principles and recommended programme of planting for a vegetable and fruit garden. Enjoy the hands-on experience of picking herbs, vegetables and fruit for the course, before entering the cookery school kitchen to see innovative ways to cook in harmony with the four seasons.
Susan will then give a very relaxed Q&A session over lunch, before guests end the day with a seedling or cutting to take home.
£150 per person
Swinton Park is located near Ripon in the Yorkshire Dales.
For more information, please email Amanda Ritson or visit the Swinton Park website.