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‘Wales is incredibly rich in game and organic produce and has a rich tradition of cooking both fur and
feather dating from medieval times’

 

Readers will stay in a spacious apartment at Crosswood Park, Trawsgoed, the historic home of the Vaughan family in the foothills of the Cambrian Mountains: Crosswood Park is 6 miles from the regional capital and university town of Aberystwyth and 10 miles from the town of Tregaron which has a bustling livestock and farmers' market.

There will be four hands-on game-cooking sessions with Elisabeth Luard at her home Brynmeheryn, a few miles from Crosswood.  Brynmeheryn is a traditional upland farmhouse, listed Grade II, with its own hundred-acre wood surrounded by sheep-pasture and moorland.  There has been a dwelling there for a thousand years – maybe even longer. 

Expect to learn how to hang, pluck and prepare seasonal game from the surrounding marshes and woodland:  wild duck, snipe, woodcock, reared pheasant and partridge, rabbit and squirrel.

The stay includes a guided visit to Cors Caron National Nature Reserve (known as Tregaron Bog) to view game in the wild, plucking game at a local farm and a visit to a local pheasant shoot.

 

5.00 pm         Arrive at Crosswood (Trawsgoed), nr Aberystwyth,
                      greeted by John Vaughan: unpack, tea, drinks
6.30 pm         Drinks and welcome by Elisabeth Luard
8.00 pm         Kitchen supper at Crosswood

8.30 am         Welsh breakfast
9.30 am         Leave for Dolbeudiau Farm
10.00 am       Take game walk on Cors Caron (Tregaron Bog) National
                      Nature Reserve guided by conservationist, John   
                      Davies, the former Nature Warden of the Bog.  See teal,                               mallard, geese, snipe and wild pheasants. Watch red kites.
12.00 pm       Return to Dolbeudiau to observe or participate in plucking
                      and basic preparation of game at game larder.
1.00 pm         Shooters’ lunch at Dolbeudiau.
2.30 pm         Return to Brynmehryn. Kitchen session 1.
5.30 pm         Return to apartment at Crosswood, change for dinner
                      and drinks
8.00 pm         Game dinner at Brynmeheryn

8.30 am         Welsh breakfast
9.15 am         Leave for local pheasant shoot estate at Crosswood.
9.30 am         Walk woodlands / see game: pheasants and woodcock
11.30 am       Return to Brynmehryn. Preparation of Game / Kitchen
                      session 2
1.00 pm         Kitchen lunch at Brynmehryn
2.30 pm         Kitchen session 3
6.00 pm         Return to Crosswood
7.15 pm         Leave for Ultracomida in Aberystwyth for a tutored wine                             tasting and dinner
 
8.30 am         Welsh breakfast
9.15 am         Leave for Brynmehryn
10.00 am       Kitchen session 3
12.00 noon   Walk Brynmehryn woodlands
1.00 pm         Light lunch at Brynmehryn
2.30 pm         Kitchen session 4
6.00 pm         Return to apartment
8.00 pm         Gala game dinner at Brynmehryn

8.30 am         Breakfast
10.00 am       Guests leave from Crosswood




PRICE PER PERSON: £930
(couples discount of 5 per cent)
The trip includes:
• Four nights’ accommodation at Crosswood Park, Trawsgoed, nr. 
   Aberystwyth
• All transport during the stay
• Four cookery lessons
• All meals, including four lunches, three dinners - plus a gala dinner
  and wines
• A wine-tasting and dinner by Ultracomida, Aberystwyth
• Indeed everything above apart from transport to Crosswood

For further enquiries and bookings, please contact Claire Daly on
0207 436 8801.
30% deposit of £279 required; balance by September 16th. Cheques made payable to Oldie Publications Ltd, 65 Newman St, London W1T 3EG