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Wine Tasting
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Old School Halloween Dinner

Date of tasting: 31/10/2009
Location: Wedgwood Tearoom, Barlaston

The 'Wizard of Wedgwood's' kitchen has conjured up the following ‘ghoulish’ menu for this fun evening.

As usual with our Old School Dinners Andrew will be choosing a different wine to accompany each course of Dave’s menu.

Dinner Menu - Halloween

Spookish Canapés

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Witches Broth
Pea & bacon chowder, served with freshly baked bread

Deep fried blood bites
Bite size pieces of blood sausage, deep fried in a tempura batter with a tomato concasse set on dressed leaves

Ghouls breath pate & bat toast
A homemade garlic & Armagnac liver pate, with hot toast

Wizard Salad
A pyramid of smoked duck and blood orange, set on citrus dressed leaves

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Flesh & Eyeball Stew
A French classic of beef and sweet onions in a full bodied red wine sauce

Griddled bats wings with black butter
Grilled skate wing with a beurre noir and a gem lettuce & fresh pea fricassee

Battered Frog
A traditional dish of butchers choice sausages, baked in a light batter with an apple and sage compote & caramelised onion mash

Boiled Entrails
Fresh linguine with sun blushed tomato ragout, parmesan crisps and garlic dough balls

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Whipped Brie
Served with water biscuits & red onion marmalade

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Pumpkin Pie
With a pecan & maple cream

Apple Bobbin
Baked apple with prunes, cinnamon & ginger, Served with dead good custard

Pile of bones with blood sauce
Italian meringue bones with a raspberry compote and mint sugar

Crispy pot of gruel
Clotted cream rice pudding with a brulee topping

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Coffee & after dinner mints

Tickets for this dinner are priced at £49.95 per person.
(this includes dinner and all wines, water, etc)

Halloween 'costume' is optional though some 'clue' is a good idea.

As with all our dinners we all share one big table, groups will always be seated together.