Cookery Essential Skills (HPT)

Course intent

To provide basic cookery skills so you can prepare meals at home.

What will I learn?

This short course has a course workbook containing all you need to know. The workbook contains all the course recipes.

Essential Skills has a specific focus each week:

• Soup Week: Introducing knife skills, boiling, simmering, tasting and flavours.
• Stir Fry Week: Introducing sautéing, steaming and new flavours.
• Curry Week: Introducing frying and marinades.
• Tray Bake Week: What goes well with what?
• Free choice Week: As agreed by the class.

• Throughout the Essential Skills course you will also focus on:

• Eating for good health and specific diets
• Basic mathematics using various weights, volumes, measurements, and budgeting.
• Nutrition
• Kitchen safety and food hygiene
• Store cupboard ingredients and improved shopping.

Who is this course for? Is there anything I need to know before joining?

This course welcomes all non-cooks and beginner cooks

What do I need to bring to the first class? Will there be any extra costs?

Please ensure you have completed the following before the first session:

• It is essential all cookery learners click this link https://customer.surreycc.gov.uk/sal-cookery-checklist - complete and submit.
• All ingredients and resources are supplied
• Containers to take your dish(es) home

What can I do when I finish the course?

Next steps will be the Confidence Builder course. For more information, please ask your tutor. It would be great to see you again.

Additional information

We welcome learners with additional needs and disabilities. When you enrol, please let us know if you would like to discuss your extra support needs with a member of the Supported Learning Team who will then contact you as soon as possible. If you are enrolling within 10 days of the course start date, we may not be able to contact you before your first class.

We value and support equality, diversity and inclusion by always promoting fairness and respect.

How to enrol

Our courses are for adult learners aged 19 or over. If you are under 19, please call 0300 200 1044.

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