June 2023

For fuss-free cooking that yields hugely satisfying results, it is difficult to beat one-pot meals.

This full day course looks at some of our favourite recipes that are simplicity itself to prepare. Ideal for feeding hungry crowds with minimal washing up afterwards, these meals are perfect for relaxed suppers on busy nights as well as easy, delicious solutions for dinner parties.

Combining both demonstrations and hands-on guided cookery sessions with our tutors, you will learn how to make dishes such as hearty ragouts, comforting risotto and paella, vibrant tray bakes and tempting puddings.

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!

Summer is the perfect chance to spend time with friends and family, soak up the good weather and share great food. Picnics are a wonderful opportunity to bring people together over a whole host of seasonal, delicious plates and snacks with something for everyone.

During this course we will cover recipes from bite-size sweet and savoury snacks, seasonal salads and showstopping mains. Our Tutors will inspire you with new and exciting recipes with a few twists on much-loved British picnic classics. Before the end of the course, we will head out to our favourite picnic spot in our organic Market Garden, spread out blankets and enjoy the feast along with a few glasses of chilled prosecco. 

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.

Cooking on the barbecue can often be a daunting task, with many people apprehensive about going beyond burgers and sausages. Whether you’re cooking fillet steaks, delicate fish, vegetables or even puddings, we’ll teach you failsafe techniques and skills that you can use at home. As well as advice on choosing the perfect cuts of meat and fish to pop on the grill, we will also cover a number of marinades, salads and accompaniments to make sure you can approach your next barbecue with confidence.

On arrival, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made tea and coffee, before you enjoy a series of demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions to create your own dishes on the barbecue. Throughout the day you will have the chance to sit down to try everything you make, accompanied by a glass or two of wine from our sister estate in Provence.

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.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or more experienced cook, this comprehensive introduction to the essential skills and techniques of classic cookery will ensure you leave you confident enough to execute almost any recipe, as well as being able to create your own dishes and develop a signature style.

Using seasonal, organic produce from our Farm and Market Garden, this half-day course will discuss the importance of good ingredients and classic techniques. Covering as many principles as possible in the 3-dishes that we will create throughout the day. This course provides all of the skills and techniques you need to create consistently delicious, elegant dishes at home. Within each session you will enjoy a combination of demonstrations and hands-on cookery, sitting down together to enjoy each dish you make, accompanied by a glass or two of wine from our sister estate in Provence.

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.

Over the course of the morning, you will enjoy a series of demonstrations as well as hands-on cookery sessions. This course will provide plenty of tips, inspiration and confidence for you to take home to your own kitchens.

Our tutors will also explain the importance of the flours, how to knead the dough and how to finish and plate them beautifully to restaurant standard. Towards the end of the morning everyone will enjoy lunch together, trying some of your delicious creations, accompanied by a glass of wine from our sister estate, in Provence.

* Please note this course is not suitable for those following a gluten-free diet.

Spices have long been celebrated for their health benefits, in Ayurvedic, Chinese and Western cuisines and holistic practices. This half day course in will explore the recipes and thinking behind the use of spices to aid healing and good digestion as well as their anti-inflammatory properties and beneficial effects on blood sugar and longevity.

Over the course of the morning, you will enjoy a series of demonstrations from our Cookery School tutors as well as hands-on cookery sessions to create your own delicious dishes, using a wonderful array of delicious spices and health giving ingredients. With plenty of tips on how to incorporate spices into every day cooking from breakfast through to supper, this course will provide plenty of inspiration for you to take home to your own kitchens.

Provencal cookery is rich with warm, summery flavours and recipes created with fresh, seasonal ingredients. We are lucky enough to have a glut of some of these wonderful vegetables and herbs in our organic Market Garden come summer, as well as delicious ingredients from our sister estate in the South of France, Château Léoube.

From olives, capers and herbs to beautiful fish, lamb and poultry, our Cookery School team will guide you through a series of classic flavour combinations and recipes, created to bring out the best of each ingredient we use.

With the chance to explore our Market Garden as well as sample our own olive oils, tapenades and wines from Château Léoube, our Journey Through Provence class will inspire you to incorporate French flavours and techniques into your own cookery at home. On arrival, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made tea and coffee, before you enjoy a series of demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions, to create your own dishes. Throughout the day you will have the chance to sit down around our central island to try everything you make, accompanied by a glass or two of wine.

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.

Focusing on accessible, simple recipes, which can be easily adapted to use ingredients you might have to hand, this course will give you a repertoire that is simple, nutritious and satisfying so that you leave us inspired to create your own dishes at home. Over the course of the day we will cover meat and fish dishes as well as recipes for sauces, accompaniments and vegetarian alternatives or replacements for anyone with special dietary requirements.

As you arrive, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made tea and coffee, before you enjoy a series of demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions, to create your own dishes. Throughout the day you will have the chance to sit down to eat everything that you cook, accompanied by a glass or two of wine from our sister estate in Provence, Château Léoube.

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.

After introducing your menu over a welcome drink with nibbles, our chefs will explain more about what we do here at Daylesford and why our organic ingredients taste as good as they do. With numbers limited to 12, during dinner you will have the best seat in the house, offering you the opportunity to learn some of the methods and techniques that have gone into preparing the evening meal. Each dish will be accompanied by fine wines from our cellar, chosen to perfectly complement your menu.

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.

Join the Cookery School and Garden Room teams for this fun-filled course combining two of our favourite activities – floristry and cookery.

As you arrive to the Cookery School, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made coffee and tea, before you head off with our Head Floristry Tutor to learn how to create a beautiful, seasonal hand-tied posie using natural materials and flowers - yours to take home at the end of the day.

Mid-way through the morning, we’ll escort you back to the Cookery School for a demonstration and hands-on cookery session, creating delicious dishes using organic, seasonal ingredients from our Farm and Market Garden. Before you leave your dishes will be served for lunch, accompanied by a glass or two of wine from our sister estate, Château Léoube.

With lots of tips and techniques from both our tutors and florists this is a great introduction to seasonal cookery and flower arranging, giving you plenty of ideas and inspiration to take home.

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

Using traditional, artisan methods and purely organic ingredients we will cover texture, kneading, proving and of course the all important baking, so that you can leave us confident to be able to recreate delicious homemade loaves. We pay special attention to the importance of good quality ingredients and age old traditions which set artisan bread apart from preservative-laden commercial breads.

Any questions relating to your own baking will of course be answered, and we’ll give you some sourdough starter to take home with you, aiming to inspire the start of your home-baking journey. On arrival, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made tea, coffee and a selection of pastries from our bakery before you enjoy a series of demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions to create your own loaves. Throughout the day you will be seated around our central kitchen island to sample each bread accompanied by a glass or two of wine.

* Please not this course is not suitable for those following a gluten-free diet

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.

Eating well has a profound effect on how we feel and how our brains and bodies function. This course explores the relationship between good nutrition and our wellbeing, examining which foods can help us to function at our best.

We will look at the roles of fat, protein, vegetables, grains and sugar in our diets and how best to create delicious meals and recipes which will help you feel balanced and well.

Designed in collaboration with our resident nutritionist Rhaya Jordan, this course will include plenty of expert advice on how to include the vital nutrients in your eating and cooking at home. Throughout the day you will enjoy recipe demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions to create delicious, nourishing dishes, using the freshest ingredients in season from our organic farm and Market Garden. As you arrive, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made tea and coffee before you enjoy a series of demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions, to create your own dishes.

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.

Focusing on accessible, simple recipes, which can be easily adapted to use ingredients you might have to hand, this course will give you a repertoire that is simple, nutritious and satisfying so that you leave us inspired to create your own dishes at home. Over the course of the day we will cover meat and fish dishes as well as recipes for sauces, accompaniments and vegetarian alternatives or replacements for anyone with special dietary requirements.

As you arrive, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made tea and coffee, before you enjoy a series of demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions, to create your own dishes. Throughout the day you will have the chance to sit down to eat everything that you cook, accompanied by a glass or two of wine from our sister estate in Provence, Château Léoube.

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

We will prepare two impressive open fires in our stunning Market Garden, the group will have fun experimenting with different methods and a variety of dishes, including cooking directly on the fire, cast iron cooking, Asado-style with larger joints of meat, marinades, grilling seasonal vegetables and more.

Cooking outdoors is always a fun, sociable activity and we will be embracing this with plenty of chilled wine, cider and beer to keep you refreshed as we enjoy the most delicious, flame-kissed flavours and share a wealth of tips and techniques.

Join us for an unforgettable evening in the Market Garden, sit back and relax whilst our chefs create a delicious, seasonal tasting menu right in front of you over an impressive open fire.

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!

Summer is the perfect chance to spend time with friends and family, soak up the good weather and share great food. Picnics are a wonderful opportunity to bring people together over a whole host of seasonal, delicious plates and snacks with something for everyone.

During this course we will cover recipes from bite-size sweet and savoury snacks, seasonal salads and showstopping mains. Our Tutors will inspire you with new and exciting recipes with a few twists on much-loved British picnic classics. Before the end of the course, we will head out to our favourite picnic spot in our organic Market Garden, spread out blankets and enjoy the feast along with a few glasses of chilled prosecco. 

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. Begin the day by enriching both your body and mind with a 90 minute yoga class in the spa's beautiful loft studio. You will then be guided back to The Cookery School where we will welcome you with a reviving juice and herbal teas.

After an introduction from our tutors, everyone will have the chance to cook a nourishing, healthy lunch, getting hands on preparing a number of dishes designed to reflect the holistic, wholesome approach to food we have at Daylesford.

Focusing on our wonderful organic ingredients, with recipes designed to make you feel your best, we’ll create a series of delicious and nutritious dishes which will be enjoyed together for lunch.

After your cookery session we’ll escort you back to the Bamford Wellness Spa for a 45-minute back, neck and shoulder massage giving you the chance to completely unwind before your day with us comes to an end.

B Balanced Timings 

9:15am | Arrival at The Cookery School for a cup of tea or coffee

9:30am | Yoga in the Bamford Wellness Loft Studio

11:00am - 2:00pm | Cookery School course

2:15pm - 4:15pm | 45-minute massage in the Bamford Wellness Spa

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.

Hundreds of different varieties of organic fruit, vegetables and salad leaves are grown in the 28-acres of the Daylesford Market Garden. These include unusual heritage varieties as well as familiar things you would expect to find in seasonal veg boxes and farmers’ markets.

You'll spend the morning harvesting your own fresh produce from our Market Garden, when the baskets and trugs are full, the group will pause for an appetising snack prepared by our chefs before returning to the Cookery School to transform the haul into delicious meals, guided by our tutors.

You will return home with the confidence and know-how to create delicious dishes using seasonal ingredients that are so often overlooked, as well as plenty of freshly harvested crops!

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.

Our recipes focus on ingredients and preparation techniques that allow you to spend time with your guests rather than locked away in the kitchen. Using seasonal, organic produce from our Farm and Market Garden we will provide you with a repertoire of dishes for starters, main courses and puddings, each elegant and simple to prepare.

We cover fish and meat cookery, vegetarian options, how to look after guests with special diets and will even talk a little about how to select the best wines to accompany your recipes back at home. As you arrive, we will introduce you to your day over freshly made coffee and tea, before you enjoy a series of demonstrations and guided hands-on cookery sessions, to create your own dishes. Throughout the day you will have the chance to try everything you make, accompanied by a glass or two of wine from our sister estate in Provence, Château Léoube.