Harts of Stur Kitchen issue 09, spring 2019 | Page 14

Harts Kitchen You Ain’t Seen Muffin Yet B reakfast has a tag line worthy of a top advertising agency - the most important meal of the day. It’s also arguably the most delicious. Maybe it’s because by the time you ‘break your fast’ from the previous night you’re properly hungry. Or possibly because it’s the premier meal of the day, it’s had first pick and managed to claim so many delicious dishes as its own – from bacon and eggs to porridge, pancakes to hash browns, bircher muesli to a perfectly flakey croissant, the staple items might shift depending where you are in the world but you won’t go far wrong with any country or cuisine’s breakfast food. One of the finest breakfasts you’ll find in Harts’ home county of Dorset, or any county for that matter, is at All Hallows Farmhouse, a cookery school with rooms in Wimborne St Giles. It’s home to Lisa Osman, an award-winning chef and caterer who is living her dream of teaching visitors how to cook in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. She specialises in AGA cookery in the farmhouse kitchen, helping to demystify this most traditional of stoves in courses that take in baking, desserts, Christmas, beginners and experts. There’s also that breakfast essential, marmalade, to be made. Guests can stay for the weekend and come away having made jars of Paddington’s favourite condiment as well as the bread and butter to enjoy it with. Here we present three of Lisa’s best breakfasts. Visitors come from North America to sample her muffins and marmalade and the kedgeree is one of the tastiest dishes you can enjoy at any time of day or night. 14 www.hartsofstur.com