Gingerbread Cottage offers Christmas Gingerbread men biscuits to all the guests over the Christmas holidays! CHRISTMAS GINGERBREAD BISCUITS 350g/12oz plain flour. 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 2 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cinnamon 125g/4½oz butter 175g/6oz light soft brown sugar 1 egg 4 tbsp golden syrup To decorate writing icing cake decorations HERE’S WHAT […]
FOOD EVENTS AND FESTIVALS TO VISIT WHEN COMING TO CHIDEOCK Each year Laurie and I get very excited about the ‘food festival season’. We have some great food festivals right on the doorsteps of both Gingerbread Cottage and Chiddy Nook. Here are some of our favourites: BRIDPORT FOOD FESTIVAL 11 – 17 June 2017 : Bridport Food Festival […]
Dorset’s Pearl Dorset’s Pearl Lyme Regis is a small seaside town surrounded by breathtaking scenery and is known as The Pearl of Dorset. Lyme Regis is a popular holiday destinations for all seasons. Its historic Cobb and harbour are iconic features. Walking out to the end of the cobb and looking back is a favourite […]
Visit Hardy’s Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and Far from the […]
With very special thanks to Neil Barnes, West Dorset Photographer, for allowing us to use many of his local images.
