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.


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

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


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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.


Buy Winter Produce From Oakden

Buy Winter Produce From Oakden

02 December 2009

Below is a price list for the following produce: we will only go and pick the fresh fruit and salads, or dig the produce out from the field, when your order comes through, and get it sent either the same day or early the next day, packaged securely for the freshest, most seasonal produce you [...]

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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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Friday A BBQ, Saturday A Wedding!

Friday A BBQ, Saturday A Wedding!

26 November 2009

It’s nice to get repeat custom, old faces, remembering good times and a reassurance that as a catering company we are doing something right! Both the BBQ on Friday, for Lafarge Cement UK, and the Wedding Hog Roast on Saturday, for Mrs Wise’s daughter, are repeat customers. Lafarge are celebrating an excellent year of Health [...]

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