Perfect Pastry: Tarts, Pies and Pasties
Perfect Pastry: Tarts, Pies and Pasties
£245.00 Inclusive
Learn Pastry Making at River Cottage Cookery School
Spend a day perfecting your pastry skills in this hands-on workshop inspired by our Great Pies book, guided by our expert chefs.
Your day begins with mastering a range of pastry types, including hot water crust, rough puff, shortcrust, and suet pastry. Under the guidance of our skilled chefs, you’ll create classic dishes such as pork pies, savoury suet puddings, pasties, and quiches, with plenty of opportunities to bake and taste your own creations throughout the day.
This hands-on pastry course will give you the confidence and skills to make delicious pastry at home. Enjoy your baked goods for lunch and afternoon snacks, and take leftovers home to share with friends and family.
Is this course suitable for me?
Due to the varied content, this course isn’t suitable for those with allergies or specific dietary requirements. However, we do offer other courses that cater to gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets. 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
SESSION ONE
SESSION TWO
SESSION THREE
LUNCH
SESSION FOUR
SESSION FIVE
DEPARTURE
Highlights
- Hands-on pastry baking with expert River Cottage chefs learning essential skills and techniques
- Learn hot water crust, rough puff, shortcrust, and suet pastry for sweet and savoury creations
- Bake classic pastry dishes including pork pies, pasties, quiches, and suet puddings
- Enjoy a freshly baked lunch featuring suet pudding with a seasonal vegetable side, prepared by our chefs as you reflect on your day’s work
- Take home some of your creations to share with loved ones
when new dates are released for this event.
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Learn Pastry Making at River Cottage Cookery School
Spend a day perfecting your pastry skills in this hands-on workshop inspired by our Great Pies book, guided by our expert chefs.
Your day begins with mastering a range of pastry types, including hot water crust, rough puff, shortcrust, and suet pastry. Under the guidance of our skilled chefs, you’ll create classic dishes such as pork pies, savoury suet puddings, pasties, and quiches, with plenty of opportunities to bake and taste your own creations throughout the day.
This hands-on pastry course will give you the confidence and skills to make delicious pastry at home. Enjoy your baked goods for lunch and afternoon snacks, and take leftovers home to share with friends and family.
Is this course suitable for me?
Due to the varied content, this course isn’t suitable for those with allergies or specific dietary requirements. However, we do offer other courses that cater to gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets. 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
SESSION ONE
SESSION TWO
SESSION THREE
LUNCH
SESSION FOUR
SESSION FIVE
DEPARTURE
Highlights
- Hands-on pastry baking with expert River Cottage chefs learning essential skills and techniques
- Learn hot water crust, rough puff, shortcrust, and suet pastry for sweet and savoury creations
- Bake classic pastry dishes including pork pies, pasties, quiches, and suet puddings
- Enjoy a freshly baked lunch featuring suet pudding with a seasonal vegetable side, prepared by our chefs as you reflect on your day’s work
- Take home some of your creations to share with loved ones
when new dates are released for this event.
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Well organised, relaxed, great environment to learn – I enjoyed the course and it was inspiring too!
Very good, with a station at the back a little more leader circulation during the making activities would have been appreciate. Otherwise excellent experience.
It was our (my daughter & I) first River Cottage event. The Great Pies course exceeded our expectations in terms of the professionalism and knowledge of the Chef (Chiara) & her team in putting together a great pie making course. The venue size and number of participants made it an intimate and sociable gathering. A good day out spending quality time with my daughter. She loved it.
Great day – super well organised and we came away confident to make pies and pastry at home. Top tips for savoury and sweet pastries and pie techniques.
“I had a wonderful time at River Cottage, everyone was very welcoming, and Chiara was so
knowledgable and made everything look so easy! I’ve always thought pastry was a bit
daunting but now I feel much more confident in tackling 3 different kinds! Big thank you to
everyone working there.”
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
“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.”
“It was exactly the course I wanted. I’ve never made pastry from scratch as an adult and Gelf made it all feel completely do-able.”
“It was our (my daughter & I) first River Cottage event. The Great Pies course exceeded our expectations in terms of the professionalism and knowledge of the Chef (Chiara) & her team in putting together a great pie making course. The venue size and number of participants made it an intimate and sociable gathering. A good day out spending quality time with my daughter. “