Event name: EARLY WINTER GARDEN & SCONES with BARBARA SWEENEY
EARLY WINTER GARDEN & SCONES with BARBARA SWEENEY, Sunday 25 June 2023
About Barbara Sweeney: @foodandwords www.barbarasweeney.com.au
Barbara Sweeney writes about food, farmers and artisan food producers, is the founder of Food & Words which presents food events and cooking classes and...is passionate about scones. She’s made every scone recipe she’s ever come across in the quest to learn what it takes to make the perfect scone!
Barbara is a longtime friend of Glenmore House – fulfilling my request some years ago for a series of delectable quiche, tart and flan days. She also trucked her vintage cookbook stall and Talking Cookbook experience to one of our Open Gardens (I bet some of you picked up a treasure or two that day!) and joined us to facilitate the discussion at the twilight dinner we hosted to celebrate the release of Aaron Bertelsen’s Great Dixter cookbook. That was an evening to remember!
Scone making with Barbara (and enjoying the results with a garden view!) has long been on my agenda. We just needed the perfect opportunity and at last, it’s arrived!
Event description:
**All but one place at the 3pm scone session are now fully booked. Please contact Mickey for a place on the waitlist.
Places are open to 12 participants at each session (with the first batch of peeps set to devour their scones in the loggia as the second batch of peeps settle in the Dairy). Barbara will have good time to demonstrate and talk each group through all the glories of scone making, ’til out of the oven (risen, golden) and onto your plate!
There will also be a bowl of pumpkin soup for everyone between 1.00 – 1.30 pm and plenty of time to wander the early winter garden – where the last of the season’s colour ought still to be clinging to those trees late to shed (some here are only just beginning to colour!). The borders will be at season’s end, displaying seed heads and ready for their hard winter prune. Whilst the ornamental garden may be ready for its period of hibernation, it’s a lovely time to behold, as it shimmers and sparkles in the clear winter light. The kitchen garden will be at full throttle as productive winter veg burgeon. We’ll set a gentle fire in the Dairy but you’ll still need to rug up in your winter woollies!
I’ll open Barn so you can have a pootle around at 1.15 or so and you are welcome to linger longer to catch that golden light.
Cost $75.00 per person
