Grandmother's Day in Hosfords

Slow Food's Annual Grandmother's Day took place across Ireland last Sunday. Cork City joined forces with West Cork and invited Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Grandchildren, Mummies and Daddies along. We had a fantastic turnout and the kids had lots of fun baking fairy cakes and brown bread with Mary and Christine from the Ballinascarthy Bakers and it was a joy to watch them marching into the kitchen of the Geranium Cafe where headchef Olive opened the oven for the little master bakers.

Peter Foyne from the Butter Museum in Cork City came and showed how to make butter in a jar as well as in a large kiln jar with a wooden whisk. I managed to snatch some of the butter up and let me tell you it was yummy with the brown bread.

John Hosford of Hosford's Garden Centre showed our guests how to start your own kitchen garden and the gathering around him showed that the interest is higher than ever to grow your own food.

Anthony Creswell from Ummera Smokehouse showed how to smoke bacon in a small home smoking tin but also explained how to smoke just using an old cake tin.

Dianne Curtin of West Cork Slow Food showed the kids how to make lemonade yourself and the kids simply loved it, they couldn't get enough of the sparkling juice and she had to repeat the recipe three times to be sure that everyone got a sip of the lemonade.

Olive Brennan offered a scrumptious afternoon tea with sandwiches and cakes which went down a treat.

Thank you to all involved helping to make this day so special. A special thank you to John Hosford who so generously opened his garden centre for us.