Comfits and Candies

Date: Saturday 7th December 2024                                                                             

Time: 10.00 - 16.00                                                                                                   

Format: Attended (In person)

Venue: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Price: £75/£67.50 members

Did you know that many of our most enduring and best-loved sweeties have their origins as traditional herbal remedies; the recipes for which may be found amongst the pages of centuries old herbals, books of receipts and pharmacopoeias?

This enthralling delicious herbology short course shares some of the ‘secrets’ of this early sugar craft and enables you to make some very moreish and therapeutic (!) comfits and candies of your own - not to be missed!

Taught by Catherine Conway-Payne and Susan Rennie.

This is an adult education workshop, participants must be 16+

Membership and Short Course Gift Vouchers 

You can enter the members discount code at checkout. This can found in your members newsletter. Please note that the discount box at checkout will not accept your membership number.

If you are having difficulties finding the discount code or your newsletter, please contact education@rbge.org.uk or membership@rbge.org.uk and we’ll help you.

 If you have an RBGE gift voucher with a code beginning EDU or COV you may use this as a promotional code to apply the balance to the cost of the course.

Gift Option

If you would like to purchase this course as a gift, please fill out our gifting form

Please click to see our short course booking terms and conditions

NB. WHEN BOOKING, PLEASE INCLUDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS AS YOUR CONFIRMATION AND ATTENDANCE INFORMATION WILL BE SENT BY EMAIL

Images by Kate Soltan