Welcome To Oakden


Oakden is the parent company for Oakden Park Farm, Apex Catering, Embers Catering Equipment and HistoricalFoods.com. Here you can find out about our latest news through the blog and also information about Oakden Park Farm, our market garden farm that we use to grow our own salad, herb and fruit produce for use in our catering.



APEX CATERING - APEX HOGROAST - APEX BBQ - HISTORICALFOODS.COM - EMBERS


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Oakden Park Farm Fuit. We grow a lot of the produce we use in our catering at Apex.

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We will be blogging on our year’s progress from our four businesses, Oakden, Apex, Embers & HistoricalFoods.com. These businesses are all linked within a specific market sector of catering - as Apex we are one of the oldest and most experienced caterers for clients in the UK, as Embers we make the catering ovens, as Oakden Park Farm we have a market garden to grow the salad, herbs and fruit crops we use in our catering, and with HistoricalFoods.com we archive and adapt recipes from British History for clients including T.V. and Film productions.


A Hog Roast Video By Apex

A Hog Roast Video By Apex

13 February 2010

Below is a promotional video we have made to advertise our Hog Roast Catering skills and experience. It shows how to prepare a pig from the start and how it is carved and served to guests. The Embers Hog Roaster Oven is fully portable and means we can cook a pig and serve it regardless [...]

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This Is The Busy Booking Period

This Is The Busy Booking Period

10 February 2010

Throughout this New Year, into Valantines Day, we get our busiest booking period, where many people are looking for the same summer dates, for Weddings and Parties in particular, and we are having to turn people away … we dislike turning people away but we would rather concentrate on no more than two jobs on [...]

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Apple Pie With Vanilla Custard

Apple Pie With Vanilla Custard

02 December 2009

There is a fruit pie for every season: strawberry-rhubarb for spring, cherry in summer, pear in the autumn, and apple in the winter. Apple pie has to be our favourite, and one we make for many clients, its warming, homely and, if done right, better than any fancy, messed about dessert masquerading as art-food on a [...]

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Christmas Pudding (Traditional)

Christmas Pudding (Traditional)

02 December 2009

Too many modern cooks have played and poked about with the traditional Christmas Pudding, but  playing about with the taste is pointless, you either like the taste or you do not, which is why it is best to serve a couple of different desserts on Christmas Day to keep everyone happy. However, we feel at Oakden [...]

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Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding

02 December 2009

A lot of our clients are asking us for home-made, great tasting recipes that could be called British ‘classics’. Sticky Toffee Pudding is certainly one of those, and is very popular – I guess people are tired of the shop bought taste that never quite captures the childhood memory of it. However, getting the balance [...]

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