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"The Country Hotel of the Year"

2007 Good Hotel Guide

Provenance - Combe House Kitchen

Bakery and Confectionery

We bake everything on site including all our breads by Chef, using organic stone ground local flours, and all our confectionery e.g. petit fours, chocolate truffles and proper Devon fudge.


Preserves

All made by Chef from fresh seasonal fruit.Honey is from our own bees which forage on the surrounding wildflower meadows and hedgerows.


Garden

Charlie O’Reilly, for 25 years an old-fashioned head gardener who grows and tends the following during the seasons of the year:

Fruit
Putt Apples; Grapes; Cob Nuts; Crab Apples; Mulberries; Pumpkins; Raspberries; Strawberries; Gooseberries

Vegetables
Baby Carrots; Globe Artichokes; Salsify; Purple Sprouting; Broccoli; Jerusalem Artichokes; Spinach; Horseradish; 9 varieties of Potato; Celery

Herbs
All Parsleys; Sage; Lemon Verbena; Coriander; Tarragon; Rosemary; All Thymes; Chervil

 

A Country House in Devon you will always remember – Combe House at Gittisham, Nr Exeter
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