The Sunday Mail - 01.09.2019

take centre stage. A session costs

£75pp – and you’ll head home with

plenty to share.

limewoodhotel.co.uk

Domaine L’ancienne ecoLe

Provence

On a wine estate near the village

of Vinsobres, British cooking

course specialist Panary has a

four-day session that promises to

bring classic French baking to

life, including brioche and pain

au raisin, using a wood-fired oven.

From £1,045pp including

accommodation and all meals,

but not travel.

panary.co.uk

ca De memi Padua

A Palladian villa in the middle of

a town near Padua is now a very

food-minded B&B. It’s family-run

and families can make pizzas

together, as well as more

complicated breads and pastries.

From £60 a night, with breakfast

(cooking classes cost extra.)

cadememi.com

BeDruthan hoteL cornwall

Outside, there are waves

pounding the shore, but inside,

you’ll be whipping up focaccia

and doughnuts, or as winter

approaches, Christmas cake and

stollen. Baking courses start at a

£85pp and you’ll take plenty home

with you.

bedruthan.com

P&o cruise Britannia

In 2015, P&O introduced cookery

classes on board Britannia. Master

patissier Eric Lanlard is one of

the chefs who regularly come on

board to give masterclasses in

everything from bread to cakes.

A 15-night cruise from £1,229pp,

not including flights.

pocruises.com

rome

The cooking specialist company

Tasting Places can arrange

sessions with top Rome baker

Carla Tomasi, who helps guests

whip up some of Italy’s best

regional breads and cakes,

including torta caprese, almond

and walnut biscotti plus apple and

olive oil cake. Prices from £150pp.

tastingplaces.com

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...and a baker’s

dozen of courses

to turn you into

the next Nadiya

The Great British

Global Bake Off

By Sarah Turner

muehLPointhof salzburg

High in the mountains around

Salzburg in Austria, this hearty,

sporty hotel has grown up around

its bakery. It started in 1865 and

has been turning out bread and

rolls ever since, using local flour,

water from the Steinberg spring,

yeast and salt (there are mines

nearby too).

It’s a hotel that you’ll be able to

work up an appetite for; in summer,

guests have the opportunity to

swim in the lake and go hill-walk-

ing, rafting and canyoning, while in

the winter, there’s skiing.

Signature bake: Five-grain curd

cheese bread.

B&B doubles from £378 for

three nights.

muehlpointhof.at

INSPIRATION: Nadiya Hussain,

who claimed the 2015 Bake Off title

LOCAL FLAVOUR: Home-baked goodies on display at Stockholm’s Hotel Rival, above, mouthwatering

brownies at Hambleton Hall in Rutland, right, and a selection of loaves at the Hotel Josef in Prague, far left

KEITH DAVIES / STEFAN SCHUETZ / ROMEO BALANCOURT / FREDRIK ROLLMAN

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northcote Lancashire

At this Michelin-starred hotel

outside Preston, chef Lisa

Goodwin-Allen also presides over

a cooking school. There’s a wide

variety of baking courses and

October sees both breadmaking

and cakes, including Swiss rolls

and Sacher torte. It costs from

£210, including tuition, lunch

with wine and a cream tea.

northcote.com

trinne hahnemann

copenhagen

Butter, and lots of it, is at the

heart of Danish cooking. Trinne is

Denmark’s most famous cook and

she opened her cooking school last

year. Courses are taught in Danish

and English. September sees

bread take centre stage with

courses on rye and crisp bread.

Classes cost from £135 a day.

hahnemannskoekken.dk

civic Kitchen san francisco

San Francisco kickstarted the

US sourdough revolution and

you’ll learn how to make the

Civic Kitchen’s famous naturally

leavened bread on this one-day

course. It costs £118, including

lunch, and you’ll go home with a

special batch of starter dough.

civickitchensf.com

Bettys yorkshire

Yorkshire’s most famous cafe –

currently celebrating its

centenary – also runs cookery

schools. Most of the classes

centre around baking, including

making some of Bettys classics,

including Yorkshire tea loaf and

fondant fancies. They’re often

booked up far in advance – and

there are gluten-free baking

courses, too. From £185.

bettyscookeryschool.co.uk

Denman coLLege oxfordshire

The WI is famous for its baking,

and you don’t have to be a member

to take one of the courses at the

college it runs from a stately

home near Abingdon. Every form

of baking takes place, from

meringues to vegan breads and

cakes. From £50 for non-members.

denman.org.uk

BaLLymaLoe house ireland

This hotel in County Cork has

been a place of foodie pilgrimage

since the 1960s. The house is

garlanded with Michelin stars and

surrounded by its own farm, and

the hotel started a cookery school

in 1983. Baking is a speciality.

Prices from £145 for the day.

cookingisfun.ie

the Bertinet Kitchen Bath

In England’s most beautiful city,

a cookery school that specialises

in baking, head by anglicised

Frenchman Richard Bertinet.

Courses include pies, Nordic-

style doughnuts and Christmas

cake. Prices start at £40.

thebertinetkitchen.com

LimewooD hampshire

Chefs Angela Hartnett and Luke

Holder have their own cookery

school at this New Forest hotel.

This month, it’ll be macaroons that