Bed and Breakfast Lake District

While literary figures and long walks are the first things that spring to mind when the Lake District is mentioned, it’s also becoming a home to good food and visual arts.

Lisa Gornall who with her husband owns The Hideaway at Windermere (a restaurant and boutique hotel) says there’s a young band of dedicated farmers and producers from the area, and they’re using recipes passed down through generations.

These include Scottish oak smoked salmon as well as local garlic mushrooms and wonderful cheese – creamy Lancashire, Brie, Bowland Crumbly with sultanas and cinnamon and Black Sticks Blue.

Other produce available locally includes smoked fish, Cumberland sausage, Windermere Char (a rare, toothsome fish), Herdwick mutton and Lyth Valley Damsons (plums), which have a distinctive nutty taste. Windermere is very popular with tourists, with many of them staying in a b and b in Windermere and enjoying tasty food and scenic walks.

Local goodies include Rum Butter (Demerara sugar and butter beaten together with rum, nutmeg and cinnamon) and Grasmere Gingerbread (famous ginger-flavoured shortbread).

Grasmere Gingerbread is baked using a secret recipe – many years ago when school books were scarce letters of the alphabet would be cut out of the mixture before they were baked. Now the gingerbread is available in most shops around the area, and is even sold in a b and b in Grasmere.

Kendal Mint Cake is a hard mint flavoured sugar slab which is popular with walkers, climbers and explorers as a quick source of calories.

Local art can be seen at many galleries as well as Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House near Bowness on Windermere.
If you want to sample to art and food of the Lake District, there is plenty of b and b accommodation to choose from.

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