Saddleworth Cookery School

Just 2 summer holiday classes left before everyone is back to school.
We have Tasty Thai on Tuesday and Pizza and Pasta on Wednesday. There are a few spaces available on each class and we can offer 2 spaces for £80 if anyone would like to snap one up today. Please message to reserve the spaces (just 4 available on each day).

Thanks again to everyone who supports us, we really do love working with your fantastic young people!!

Thank you, we now have a lovely class for tomorrow.
For anyone wanting to join us on Wednesday, we've had a cancellation, so now have 2 spaces available for choux pastry and Swiss rolls.
We then have 2 sessions next week with a few spaces available (Thai and pizza/pasta), and a Home Ed class on Thursday, and 'just like that' the school holidays will have flown by again.
Thank you to everyone who has allowed us to work with their fantastic young people again, we hope they have saved some food for you to enjoy!

We have a class on tomorrow with very few bookings. I realised that, for some reason, it wasn't showing on our website. It's a French themed class, making Toulouse sausage to make a Cassoulet, puff pastry to make a tart tatin and some French toast for breakfast. We might even manage to shape some baguettes.
If anyone wants to join us we can offer the class at £40 per person, as I hate cancelling classes due to low numbers.
Please message me if you would like to book :)
It would help if we know before 2pm (then we can get the baguette dough ready)
Thanks

We will be closed over the Easter weekend from Good Firday to Easter Monday. Sorry, but that does mean no pulled pork Friday this week 😞
We open again on Tuesday for the start of our school holiday classes (there are still a few spaces on some sessions). And yes, there will be pulled pork, sandwiches and pies the following Firday as usual.
Wishing everyone a lovely Easter.

How is it almost Easter?? We will be open, as usual, most of next week but have no Home Ed group running on Thursday and will be closed Good Friday.
Our Easter full day sessions run Tuesday to Thursday over the Easter holidays and we have managed to secure HAF spaces for some of the sessions.
Please use the following link to check out our holiday classes:
https://saddleworth-cookery-school-ltd.live.baluu.co.uk/...

Can’t believe a year has passed since we lost Phil’s Mum. As a tribute he’s made his own take on the popular malt loaf and named it ‘Doreen’ in her memory. Some may remember the advert and get the connection! We have a limited number with all sale proceeds going to Dr Kershaw’s Hospice, who were brilliant in her last few days. It’s much much better than the supermarket equivalent and amazing with a brew!

Not sure if the snow is sticking here yet, so we are open and ready for Home Ed this morning and afterschool later. If things get too bad we will cancel the class, post on here and email all booked on via the website.
If the snow is bad where you are and you think you will struggle to get here, please don't risk it (we know some of you live in more remote areas and prefer not to hit the roads when things get silly :) ). If you can't make it, please let us know and we will re-schedule your booking or refund if needed.
It's one of those days where we may be under 6 inches of snow by 4.30pm or the sun may be out and we will have a mini heatwave!

We have managed to get our February half term children's classes on our website. We have classes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (no sessions on Thursday and Friday to get some maintenance jobs done).
Please book using the following link for further details and to book:

https://saddleworth-cookery-school-ltd.live.baluu.co.uk/events

We are also starting to get the Easter Holiday classes on and the dishes for adult Monday classes should now also show on our website.

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Wishing all our customers and friends a very happy Christmas. Thank you so much for your support this year, it has been a difficult one and we really have appreciated the love and friendship everyone has shown.
We are now closed for a well earned break and classes will resume on 8th January.
Looking forward to seeing you in 2024 x

We just have 5 spaces remaining on our Friday half term class. We will be having some 'Spooky Fun'.
Please book via our website.

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We will be restarting our Thursday afterschool tomorrow 4.30-6.30pm and have spaces available. Please book via our website, so we know who will be joining us.

Fancy trying to make your own custard creams and other traditional biscuits? Looks like Bake Off has been inspired by our October School Holiday Class.

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Our afterschool classes re-start this week. At the moment we will only have Teenchef, on Tuesdays and Wednesday Cookery Club. We are opening up our Teenchef class to teenagers who would like to complete the Btec Level 2 Home Cooking Skills with us. There will be an additional cost for the qualification and anyone wanting to be entered will need to complete a minimum of 30 sessions. There is a practical assessment, with a small written element, at the end of the course.

Teenchef will also still be suitable for those wanting to cook for fun.

Wednesday's classes are open to all ages and abilities.

To help us with our 'set up', please book via the website or phone to confirm your place.

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Yet another great school holiday class. We are pleased to be able to work with OMBC supporting the great work of the HAF project and are always so proud of the dishes created by the children. There are a limited number of HAF and Universal spaces available to qualifying children as part of our regular children's' Summer, Christmas and Easter school holiday classes. They always fill up fast so follow our FB page to check when the next classes will be released on our website.

Another great Summer Holiday Session. We are so pleased to be able to work with OMBC and proud of what the children achieve working together in our sessions. A limited number of HAF and Universal Places are available for our Summer, Christmas and Easter children's classes.

What are you having for lunch? Freshly made roast chicken salad with oak smoked mayonnaise on our own baked Maltflake bread and tuna crunch salad on our own muffins on their way to . Lucky you! We make fresh sandwiches Monday to Friday to take away. Check us out, they’re worth the visit. Trust us 😉😇

Sorry it's taken so long but our Summer School Holiday classes are now on the website. There are a couple more dates to add -7th August (3 course gastro meal); 9th August (3 course Thai meal); 31st August (3 course fusion meal).
We are also planning a fun biscuit session on either 17th or 18th August.

Check out our classes using the following link:

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Miss it, miss out! Today we have both our low and slow cooked pulled pork and our special recipe coffee rubbed beef brisket. We’d sold out by 1:30 last week, so be quick if you want the tastiest, best value lunch to start the weekend right. Thanks for all your continued support. Phone orders taken on 01457 873333.

Looking forward to our half term classes this holiday. Tomorrow's class is super busy, but we do have a few spaces remaining for Wednesday and Thursday. Great fun perfecting your patisserie skills.
Please use the following link for more information and to book

Children's Cooking Classes A fun and exciting way to learn new skills, try different foods and make friends. We give children confidence by encouraging active participation and celebrating all achievements. Every child is a winner.

Sorry but we will be postponing next week’s afterschool classes on Tuesday (Teenchef), Wednesday and Thursday due to family bereavement. Our fantastic staff have been keeping things running, and keeping me going,for the past couple of weeks but I’m hoping that cancelling this week’s afterschool classes will give me time to pull together and support my family.
I will email those booked on via our website, but know that some regulars may not get email messages.
Thank you for your understanding.

We hope everyone's had a lovely Easter weekend. We managed to spend a few days at the seaside with Bailey (who absolutely loved every minute!).

Following a fantastic first week of super-busy classes, we still have a few spaces remaining on next week's Easter school holiday sessions if anyone would like to join us (including some free HAF spaces on Thursday and Friday).
Please use the following link for more information.

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Watching Bake Off (Su2C) - rest assured, we have time to make ganache in the modern world! 10 bowls of ganache made in today's birthdat party :)

Easter classes already!!!! We are getting recipes and ingredients ready for a fun-packed couple of weeks.
Sorry to anyone who has struggled to book classes, we are trying to work out why they are not showing for some people (IT is very good at leaving me stumped). To make things a bit easier to check out and book, I have added a link to this post. https://saddleworth-cookery-school-ltd.widget.obby.co.uk/events
There's just one space left on Monday's class, but a few on each of the remaining sessions.

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If it’s too early for Hot X Buns, how about a Knot X Bun?

Hi everyone, we are making an early call to postpone tonight’s afterschool class. The weather isn’t bad this morning, but it looks like it could get quite bad later.
If you are due to attend tonight, please would you send me a message to let me know you’ve seen the post.
Thanks

Starting the weekend the right way! We made Shokupan this week - our take on Japanese milk bread. Using buttermilk. The only difficult question is whether to have a bacon or sausage sandwich featuring bacon and sausages. Answer; both!.

Can't believe it's almost half term already. Our Fair Trade chocolate arrived today as did our new pie blocker. We are hoping to have a bit of time tomorrow to try out a couple of new recipes using them.
We just have 1 space remaining on our Delicious Desserts session and 6 on the 'Design your own Pie' class.

We have a few spaces on tomorrow’s adult cookery class (6.30-8.30pm). It’s a pizza session and we will also be making some filled bread swirls.
Bookings can be made via our website.

Rating: 10
We had a great afternoon yesterday 04.02.23 on our bread making course at Saddleworth Cookery School. Pam and the team are very knowledgeable and so organised. Just had a couple of Chelsea buns straight from the oven dripping in butter, delicious! I would definitely recommend this to my friends and family. Thanks to Pam and her team!

Rating: 10
Had a brilliant day, had fun and learnt new skills - thankyou

A couple of lovely reviews from yesterday's Beginner Bread Class. We will be running more later in the year and a super 'Intermediate Bread Making' session, that is a great follow up. We are also excited to be working on some more advanced bread making classes - please watch this space!!

Idle hands…. 😉 we didn’t have our usual AP students today so ably assisted by Jo, we tried some new ideas; Cardamon and espresso infused buttermilk bread with an espresso glaze, topped with chopped hazelnuts. The hit of coffee works really well. Gonna try it toasted and topped with hazelnut spread! Yum… 😋