Stir Up a Wild Christmas
Stir Up a Wild Christmas
Get your Christmas off to a delicious start with this Stir-Up Wild Christmas day with Liz Knight. Using foraged flavours of autumn and early winter, you’ll make a selection of recipes to keep for Christmas Day or give as gifts.
Nothing can beat home-made mince meat, especially this recipe with quince, crab apples, sloes and an instant sloe gin. It’s too good to save just for mince pies; we also love it in apple crumble, or on top of ice-cream!
The traditional recipe to make on Stir up Saturday is Christmas pudding. This gluten free recipe, made with chestnut flour, is sure to be a winner on Christmas Day. You’ll make it in a ceramic bowl and package it up to take home and cook on the day.
Liz will demo making a Christmas spice blend, which you’ll add to your Christmas pudding and also take home to add to your baking. It’s the perfect addition to biscuits, tagines and winter soups.
Today wouldn’t be complete without a foraged tipple and you’ll make a sloe and damson liqueur to include in your recipes and take home, flavoured with your choice of spices for a special wintery treat. These will make lovely gifts, if you can bear to give them away!
Because this day is packed full of Christmas recipes, it won’t include a foraging walk. Liz will be sharing lots of seasonal foraging tips throughout the day.
What you'll learn
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Introduction
Liz will explain the stir-up tradition and what you'll be making throughout the day
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Aprons on
With Liz's guidance you'll get making your wild recipes: starting with a Christmas spice blend and your Christmas pudding, which we will steam on the day.
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Wild Christmas recipes
After lunch you'll make your mincemeat and wild liqueurs, which can be used on the day or given as gifts.
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Tips for your delicious wild Christmas
Liz will share her foraging and recipe tips throughout the day.
Testimonials..
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What a terrific start to my Christmas planning to have in my store cupboard an incredible wild Christmas pudding, quince & sloe gin infused mincemeat, together with the other other tasty goodies that I came happily away with.
Lorraine -
Thank you so much for such a fantastic course. Such fun and your enthusiasm is infectious!
Shirley -
A really lovely day & so inspiring. Liz is very generous and inspirational.
Caroline & Susan
The Essentials
This course will run from 10am until 4pm and includes a delicious farm lunch.
All the recipes made today are gluten free. The Christmas pudding recipe includes dairy and eggs. Please contact us before booking if you have any special dietary requirements.
Your instructor for the day..
Liz Knight is our inspirational hedgerow hunter Liz Knight spent her childhood face down amongst the grass looking for bugs,…