Notes For 2010

For two years now, the Open Day in early May has been a great success with the visitors going between the mill and PANARY classroom as they please. It will become an annual fixture, always attached to the Shaftesbury Food Festival, and occurring on the first of the May bank holidays.

The Wood-fired Oven Workshop has gone back to being a one-day course, featuring both breads and general cooking of other goodies, meat, veg, and pudding.

A new course this year is Sponges & Pre-ferments, which would probably be thought of as an advanced course. Paul has trialed his new programme in May, and further opportunities for this course are July 13-14, and October 23-24.

I would like to say how very much I enjoyed attending your first Sponges and Pre-Ferments course recently. I thought it was extremely well organised, we covered many different breads and techniques and I learnt a huge amount from you. The whole weekend was all I hoped it would be and more, your catering was superb ( we were treated right royally), you were interesting, informative, very good humoured considering our lack of expertise, and entertaining. I shall be saving my pennies up to do another course with you before too long, I hope.
— Stephanie Barrett, May 29, 2010

Paul Merry