Christmas Bread Day
Christmas Bread Day
£195.00 Inclusive
Learn Festive Bread Making at River Cottage Cookery School
Join us for our Christmas Bread Day, the heart of River Cottage’s festive cookery schedule, and spend the day learning to make delicious seasonal breads with guidance from our expert chefs.
Your day begins with the principles of bread making, inspiring you to leave shop-bought loaves behind and embrace the joy of home baking. You’ll start with a golden, buttery brioche before mastering a traditional farmhouse loaf enhanced with sage, onion, and chestnut. You’ll also create salt-specked grissini, festive pizzas for Christmas Eve, and a Boxing Day focaccia made with delicious leftovers like roast potatoes, stuffing, and herbs.
Explore our beautiful old walled kitchen garden, enjoy tasters along the way, and sit down to a delicious seasonal lunch prepared by our chefs. This hands-on festive bread course will leave you full of Christmas spirit and with the skills and confidence to create your own seasonal breads at home.
Is this course suitable for me?
This course isn’t suitable for those with dairy or gluten intolerances. We recommend this course for participants aged 12 and up. Under-16s must be accompanied by a paying adult. These guidelines are in place to ensure the safety, comfort, and enjoyment of all our guests. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or need more information.
Arrive at River Cottage
Make yourself at home
SESSION ONE
SESSION TWO
SESSION THREE
SESSION FOUR
LUNCH
SESSION FIVE
TEATIME
Q&A
DEPARTURE
Course Highlights
- Hands-on festive baking with expert River Cottage chefs
- Master our signature farmhouse loaf, the cornerstone of River Cottage baking
- Bake soft, pillowy focaccia and prepare pizza dough for a warming wood fired lunch
- Try sweet breads including cinnamon doughnuts and rich chocolate brioche
- Learn quick soda bread, perfect for teatime at home
- Gain practical skills and tips to bake fresh bread from scratch every time
- Enjoy a freshly baked festive lunch featuring your own pizza creations
when new dates are released for this event.
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Learn Festive Bread Making at River Cottage Cookery School
Join us for our Christmas Bread Day, the heart of River Cottage’s festive cookery schedule, and spend the day learning to make delicious seasonal breads with guidance from our expert chefs.
Your day begins with the principles of bread making, inspiring you to leave shop-bought loaves behind and embrace the joy of home baking. You’ll start with a golden, buttery brioche before mastering a traditional farmhouse loaf enhanced with sage, onion, and chestnut. You’ll also create salt-specked grissini, festive pizzas for Christmas Eve, and a Boxing Day focaccia made with delicious leftovers like roast potatoes, stuffing, and herbs.
Explore our beautiful old walled kitchen garden, enjoy tasters along the way, and sit down to a delicious seasonal lunch prepared by our chefs. This hands-on festive bread course will leave you full of Christmas spirit and with the skills and confidence to create your own seasonal breads at home.
Is this course suitable for me?
This course isn’t suitable for those with dairy or gluten intolerances. We recommend this course for participants aged 12 and up. Under-16s must be accompanied by a paying adult. These guidelines are in place to ensure the safety, comfort, and enjoyment of all our guests. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or need more information.
Arrive at River Cottage
Make yourself at home
SESSION ONE
SESSION TWO
SESSION THREE
SESSION FOUR
LUNCH
SESSION FIVE
TEATIME
Q&A
DEPARTURE
Course Highlights
- Hands-on festive baking with expert River Cottage chefs
- Master our signature farmhouse loaf, the cornerstone of River Cottage baking
- Bake soft, pillowy focaccia and prepare pizza dough for a warming wood fired lunch
- Try sweet breads including cinnamon doughnuts and rich chocolate brioche
- Learn quick soda bread, perfect for teatime at home
- Gain practical skills and tips to bake fresh bread from scratch every time
- Enjoy a freshly baked festive lunch featuring your own pizza creations
when new dates are released for this event.
“Our chef teacher was enthusiastic, friendly and very helpful and informed. I love cooking and I really enjoyed myself. However long you’ve been cooking you can always learn new things and the dishes we made were all delicious.”
Well organised, relaxed, great environment to learn – I enjoyed the course and it was inspiring too!
Brilliant chef for the day, it was amazing thankyou, and really appreciate the hard work and effort that must go on behind the scenes everyday to organise all you do, as well as to do the day itself thankyou.
Great food and all fresh and local, fabulous staff, we picked up plenty of tips