October newsletter
Welcome to our October newsletter. If you have friends and neighbours who might like to receive this newsletter please do encourage them to sign up to our mailing list, you can forward this email and they can sign up HERE
Woodchester Valley Vineyard from St Chloe.
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There’s lots to look forward to throughout the Autumn in the shop and Café. New cakes, Musical Sundays and the return of soup to the menu!
Please save the date - Tuesday November 17th for our fabulous Christmas Launch 3.30pm to 6.30pm. The Christmas stock will be on the shelves with lots of lovely gift buying opportunities from the Christmas food and drink range and also from our talented local makers. There will also be supplier tastings and the cafe will be open serving drinks.
Huge congratulations to everyone who baked cakes, collected raffle prizes and volunteered to help, a huge £1,116.08 raised at the MacMillan Coffee event on Friday 25th September.
SHOP NEWS…..
Some lovely new products in the shop this month including
Belvoir - non alcoholic ‘ Hugo Spritz Cocktail
Suitable for vegetarians and vegans. It makes a bougie drink to serve to at a party over lots of ice with a slice if cucumber and a sprig of mint.
Divine Fairtrade chocolate, in various flavours, also vegan friendly.
A little recipe for delicious chocolate chip cookies using Divine dark or milk chocolate.
100g dark or milk chocolate chopped into chunks (not too small)
125g salted butter
75g granulated sugar
75g soft brown sugar
1 free range egg
150g plain flour
1/2 tsp vanilla extract.
Melt the butter. Mix the 2 types of sugar in a mixing bowl and pour over the melted butter and mix well, add the egg and vanilla and beat until blended, mix in the flour. Add the chopped chocolate (if you want to go off piste you can also add a handful of dried fruit and or nuts such as pecans and I sometimes replace 25g of flour with 35g of oats, these are very forgiving cookies and come out really well no matter what you do to them!!)
Mix everything together, you will have a sloppy sort of mixture, line a large baking sheet with non stick paper and drop dessertspoon size dollops of mixture well spaced apart (they do spread quite alot) you will need to bake these either on several baking sheets or in batches. Bake for 8-10 mins until just turning golden brown. allow to cool on the tray for a few moments while they harden up slightly then transfer to a cooling rack to fully cool (hard to resist eating them while still warm though!!!). Everyones oven is different, so adjust cooking time to suit, if you bake for longer they will be crispy if you bake for less they will be soft and chewy.
Don’t forget that Salt Bakehouse are outside on the forecourt every Tuesday morning between 10.30 and 11.30 with their van selling delicious sourdough bread and pastries and a reminder for new subscribers, you can pick up your daily newspaper in the shop seven days a week.
CAFÉ NEWS…..
Good news in the cafe! Soup season is back, pop in for a warming bowl of soup served with a delicious fresh bread roll and netherend butter.
WHAT”S ON…..
We are delighted to tell you that Musical Sundays are back in October from 2.30-3.30pm, starting with the Baroque sounds of Trio Sulla Collina on October 25th.
With the following as dates for your diary.
The Common Voices Choir - November 29th
Sing along a Carol - December 13th
Carport Quartet - January 17th
Rodborough Folk Orchestra - February 14th
Mothering Sunday Cream Teas with Tom Parker and his Harp - March 7th
Stroud String Ensemble - April 18th
Tuesday storytelling and colouring returns on the 27th of October.
Are you part of a little book group, sewing group, sketching group or monthly friendship group? If so, don't forget that we welcome groups like yours and have large tables that you can sit round. We already have several groups that come in regularly. These include monthly book groups, a fortnightly French conversation circle, and a ladies' chat group. There is also an upstairs gallery that the church allows small groups to book for committee meetings or other non-messy activities. Email manager@asotc.co.uk to find out more
For more information or a full list of our planned activities please visit us at https://www.amberleyshopandcafe.co.uk/whats-on
Friday Cuppa is always on between 10.30am and noon in the church every Friday.
Salt Bakehouse every Tuesday morning on the forecourt 10.30am - 11.30am
VOLUNTEERING…..
Anyone who is interested in volunteering either behind the scenes, in the cafe or on the shop floor, please visit https://www.amberleyshopandcafe.co.uk/volunteering. We always welcome new volunteers and full training and refresher training is a big priority for us.
For those interested in becoming a barista, we are also running a coffee morning on Saturday the 14th of November, 9.00am to 10.00am. For more information and to book your place, visit this link here
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