Baking

Online Course | The Pie Shop with Tom Morrell

Overview

River Cottage’s chef, Tom Morrell, teaches you how to make and cook with pastry in his online pie-making course.

Tom will guide you through all the essential skills needed to create a variety of savoury pastries—including shortcrust, rough puff, hot water crust, and suet. He’ll then show you how to make pork pies, bake sausage rolls, prepare pastry bases for quiches and tarts, and create a classic British suet pastry for steamed or boiled puddings.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the practical skills, knowledge, and confidence to make homemade pies for any occasion.

Highlights

  • Discover which pastry to use for different types of pies
  • Perfect your technique for making pork pies with hot water pastry
  • Learn to make quick rough puff pastry for sausage rolls and cheese straws
  • Understand the process of blind baking with shortcrust pastry for tart cases
  • Create savoury and sweet steamed pudding recipes using suet pastry