Cookery School

Perfect for barbecue enthusiasts and anyone who loves food and the great outdoors, this course offers an unforgettable experience at Daylesford.

Ever popular, our canapé classes at The Cookery School are always a sell out. Whether to kick off a dinner party or as the main event to accompany drinks, canapés are the first morsel your guests will try and a great chance to make an impression.

Sustainable Seafood is one of our most popular skills based course, allowing our guests to gain a real insight into an area of cookery which can sometimes be a little tricky to master. 

Ever popular, our Seasonal Dinner Party course will give you the confidence to cook delicious seasonal recipes for any occasion, that will impress your guests on all fronts with presentation, taste and timing.

Perfect for barbecue enthusiasts and anyone who loves food and the great outdoors, this course offers an unforgettable experience at Daylesford.

We feel eating well is an integral element of living a better life. What we eat has a profound effect on how we feel and how our brains and bodies function.

This course is a special opportunity to spend a morning exploring and harvesting the freshest, most flavourful crops in season from our Market Garden, which is normally closed to the public.

Join us for this new full-day course and learn how to master classic French cuisine from a variety of regions.

Learn how to cook the perfect steak in this new 2-hour evening workshop. Whether you like it rare, medium or well done our expert tutors will demonstrate how to cook the perfect steak using our pasture fed, organic beef.

Our Afternoon Tea course is a firm favourite in our calendar, giving you the chance learn how to make delicious, show-stopping treats for teatime.

Join us to learn some of the secrets behind our delicious loaves from sourdoughs to seeded loaves, rolls, multi-grains and enriched doughs.

In this new course, we will explore the classic and the contemporary covering an array of recipes from reductions, pan sauces, emulsifications and vinaigrettes to give every day cooking a new lease of life.

This full-day course is designed to inspire you with confidence and ideas to take your Al Fresco eating to the next level, cooking and sampling organic meat and vegetables from our Farm and Market Garden.

Our Budding Chefs classes provide the perfect introduction to cookery for children aged between 5 and 8 years old. These courses will inspire little ones to think about where their food comes from as we explain the story of our organic farm and Market Garden, getting them hands-on creating their own dishes with delicious, seasonal ingredients.

If you’re short on time, but don’t want to compromise on delicious evening meals, this is the perfect course for you. Using organic, seasonal produce from our Farm and Market Garden we will create wonderful dishes that you will look forward to preparing, no matter how busy you are.

Perfect for barbecue enthusiasts and anyone who loves food and the great outdoors, this course offers an unforgettable experience at Daylesford.

Join us for an unforgettable evening in The Cookery School at our Chef's Table Supper. Sit back and relax whilst our chefs create a delicious, seasonal tasting menu right in front of you, giving you the chance to taste our organic ingredients at their very best, having been crafted into elegant, imaginative dishes.

Our signature Chef Skills Masterclass runs every month, designed to give anyone with an interest in cookery the chance to learn invaluable skills to elevate their cooking to new heights.

Ever popular, our canapé classes at The Cookery School are always a sell out. Whether to kick off a dinner party or as the main event to accompany drinks, canapés are the first morsel your guests will try and a great chance to make an impression.

This course is a special opportunity to spend a morning exploring and harvesting the freshest, most flavourful crops in season from our Market Garden, which is normally closed to the public.

Go beyond pasta with this hands-on course that celebrates regional Italian cuisine. You will learn how to make popular and lesser-known dishes from scratch, whatever your experience.  Menus will change throughout the year and will always be inspired by the seasons.

Perfect for barbecue enthusiasts and anyone who loves food and the great outdoors, this course offers an unforgettable experience at Daylesford.

A new full-day course devoted to the diverse and vibrant world of delicious, seasonal curries.

Sustainable Seafood is one of our most popular skills based course, allowing our guests to gain a real insight into an area of cookery which can sometimes be a little tricky to master. 

Join us for this new full-day course and learn how to master classic French cuisine from a variety of regions.

Join us for an unforgettable evening in The Cookery School at our Chef's Table Supper. Sit back and relax whilst our chefs create a delicious, seasonal tasting menu right in front of you, giving you the chance to taste our organic ingredients at their very best, having been crafted into elegant, imaginative dishes.

Ever popular, our Seasonal Dinner Party course will give you the confidence to cook delicious seasonal recipes for any occasion, that will impress your guests on all fronts with presentation, taste and timing.

Everybody loves a lazy Sunday brunch and this fun half-day course at the Cookery School lets you enjoy tasting delicious dishes, while learning some great ideas and getting hands-on with new recipes to repeat on many relaxed mornings to come.

Our Budding Chefs classes provide the perfect introduction to cookery for children aged between 5 and 8 years old. These courses will inspire little ones to think about where their food comes from as we explain the story of our organic farm and Market Garden, getting them hands-on creating their own dishes with delicious, seasonal ingredients.

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to pizza. For such a simple, familiar food, pizza has many variables at play – it really is a case of the whole being more than the sum of its parts.

If you’re short on time, but don’t want to compromise on delicious evening meals, this is the perfect course for you. Using organic, seasonal produce from our Farm and Market Garden we will create wonderful dishes that you will look forward to preparing, no matter how busy you are.

This full-day course is designed to inspire you with confidence and ideas to take your Al Fresco eating to the next level, cooking and sampling organic meat and vegetables from our Farm and Market Garden.

Packing up a large picnic hamper, throwing in a blanket and venturing into the great outdoors is one of the great joys of British summertime. This course will equip you with the best quintessentially British picnic recipes for sunny days to come!

We love sharing our knowledge and passion with masterclasses such as this half-day course all about pasta. Our tutors will cover three different pasta dough techniques, the shaping process, regionality and of course delicious, simple sauces to accompany them.

This course is a special opportunity to spend a morning exploring and harvesting the freshest, most flavourful crops in season from our Market Garden, which is normally closed to the public.

Go beyond pasta with this hands-on course that celebrates regional Italian cuisine. You will learn how to make popular and lesser-known dishes from scratch, whatever your experience.  Menus will change throughout the year and will always be inspired by the seasons.

Ever popular, our Seasonal Dinner Party course will give you the confidence to cook delicious seasonal recipes for any occasion, that will impress your guests on all fronts with presentation, taste and timing.

Hosted in the beautiful Chelsea Garden Room in the heart of our organic Market Garden, this 2-hour workshop is all about creating delicious cocktails and refreshing mocktails inspired by The Legbar at Daylesford, using seasonal ingredients picked just steps away.

Our signature Chef Skills Masterclass runs every month, designed to give anyone with an interest in cookery the chance to learn invaluable skills to elevate their cooking to new heights.

With heady, fragrant herbs, gentle spices and bright, sour yet balanced flavours, Middle Eastern food is at once fresh, wholesome, rich and aromatic. Our new full-day course explores the inimitable cuisine of West Asia and its wide-reaching influences.

Join us to learn some of the secrets behind our delicious loaves from sourdoughs to seeded loaves, rolls, multi-grains and enriched doughs.

A well-stocked larder means you can always create delicious dishes at a moments notice. Build your own store of long lasting mealtime saviours with this course that covers many different forms of preservation.

Learn how to cook the perfect steak in this new 2-hour evening workshop. Whether you like it rare, medium or well done our expert tutors will demonstrate how to cook the perfect steak using our pasture fed, organic beef.

If you’re short on time, but don’t want to compromise on delicious evening meals, this is the perfect course for you. Using organic, seasonal produce from our Farm and Market Garden we will create wonderful dishes that you will look forward to preparing, no matter how busy you are.

Ever popular, our Seasonal Dinner Party course will give you the confidence to cook delicious seasonal recipes for any occasion, that will impress your guests on all fronts with presentation, taste and timing.

Join us for this new full-day course and learn how to master classic French cuisine from a variety of regions.

Everybody loves a lazy Sunday brunch and this fun half-day course at the Cookery School lets you enjoy tasting delicious dishes, while learning some great ideas and getting hands-on with new recipes to repeat on many relaxed mornings to come.

We feel eating well is an integral element of living a better life. What we eat has a profound effect on how we feel and how our brains and bodies function.

If you’re short on time, but don’t want to compromise on delicious evening meals, this is the perfect course for you. Using organic, seasonal produce from our Farm and Market Garden we will create wonderful dishes that you will look forward to preparing, no matter how busy you are.

Foraging is a traditional, age-old skill that we are passionate about at the Cookery School, offering the opportunity to harvest and eat the most delicious, seasonal ingredients from nature’s larder for free.

Our Afternoon Tea course is a firm favourite in our calendar, giving you the chance learn how to make delicious, show-stopping treats for teatime.

Created in conjunction with the Bamford Wellness Spa, our B Balanced days are designed to relax, restore and revive with 90 minutes of yoga, a cookery session and a relaxing massage treatment

Go beyond pasta with this hands-on course that celebrates regional Italian cuisine. You will learn how to make popular and lesser-known dishes from scratch, whatever your experience.  Menus will change throughout the year and will always be inspired by the seasons.

We are lucky to have a bountiful larder on our doorstep and throughout the course of the day you will learn how to prepare venison and game birds caught on our Cotswolds and Staffordshire farms.

Our signature Chef Skills Masterclass runs every month, designed to give anyone with an interest in cookery the chance to learn invaluable skills to elevate their cooking to new heights.

We love sharing our knowledge and passion with masterclasses such as this half-day course all about pasta. Our tutors will cover three different pasta dough techniques, the shaping process, regionality and of course delicious, simple sauces to accompany them.

We cater for all sorts of dietary requirements at Daylesford and are delighted to see more interest in sustainable, plant-based foods: particularly the seasonal organic vegetables, fruit, salad leaves and herbs we are so passionate about growing in our Market Garden.

Join us to learn some of the secrets behind our delicious loaves from sourdoughs to seeded loaves, rolls, multi-grains and enriched doughs.

This early evening soufflé masterclass has been designed to teach the skills and techniques to create sweet and savoury soufflés, so you can impress your guests and enjoy this delicate dish whenever the mood strikes.

Foraging is a traditional, age-old skill that we are passionate about at the Cookery School, offering the opportunity to harvest and eat the most delicious, seasonal ingredients from nature’s larder for free.

Ever popular, our canapé classes at The Cookery School are always a sell out. Whether to kick off a dinner party or as the main event to accompany drinks, canapés are the first morsel your guests will try and a great chance to make an impression.

We feel eating well is an integral element of living a better life. What we eat has a profound effect on how we feel and how our brains and bodies function.

The passion and respect we have for our animals is paramount in developing our award-winning organic meat. Our Nose-To-Tail: Butchery Masterclass will allow you to follow and understand this journey, as well as gain practical tips and techniques from our expert chefs and butchers.

If you’re short on time, but don’t want to compromise on delicious evening meals, this is the perfect course for you. Using organic, seasonal produce from our Farm and Market Garden we will create wonderful dishes that you will look forward to preparing, no matter how busy you are.

Created in conjunction with the Bamford Wellness Spa, our B Balanced days are designed to relax, restore and revive with 90 minutes of yoga, a cookery session and a relaxing massage treatment.

Sustainable Seafood is one of our most popular skills based course, allowing our guests to gain a real insight into an area of cookery which can sometimes be a little tricky to master. 

We are lucky to have a bountiful larder on our doorstep and throughout the course of the day you will learn how to prepare venison and game birds caught on our Cotswolds and Staffordshire farms.

Ever popular, our Seasonal Dinner Party course will give you the confidence to cook delicious seasonal recipes for any occasion, that will impress your guests on all fronts with presentation, taste and timing.

Food and cookery is a wonderful way to bring families together in the kitchen, but this time you won’t have any washing up to worry about! This course is suitable for families with children aged between 5 - 16 years.

Our Budding Chefs classes provide the perfect introduction to cookery for children aged between 5 and 8 years old. These courses will inspire little ones to think about where their food comes from as we explain the story of our organic farm and Market Garden, getting them hands-on creating their own dishes with delicious, seasonal ingredients.

This 3-hour course is aimed at Junior Chefs aged 9-13 years to build skills, confidence and independence in the kitchen. Cooking is a real life skill and getting to grips with the basics at a young age helps to lay the foundation for a lifetime of food appreciation and healthy habits.

Join us for this new full-day course and learn how to master classic French cuisine from a variety of regions.

A new full-day course devoted to the diverse and vibrant world of delicious, seasonal curries.

If you’re short on time, but don’t want to compromise on delicious evening meals, this is the perfect course for you. Using organic, seasonal produce from our Farm and Market Garden we will create wonderful dishes that you will look forward to preparing, no matter how busy you are.