All the events for the weekend, with details on classes, workshops and talks.
- Deadlines for entries: artisan 12 February, amateur 19 February –
Marmalade makers wanting to enter The World’s Original Marmalade Awards & Festival have just days left to perfect their citrusy concoctions, parcel up their jars and post them off for judging.
Artisan entries for the 2012 Awards need to be received no later than Sunday 12 February, and amateur entries no later than Sunday 19 February, so a final a’peel’ is being made for last minute entrants to get their skates on. Entries have been arriving at Marmalade HQ for weeks, with jars coming from as far as Singapore and South Africa.
With a recent report suggesting UK marmalade sales are still falling, festival organisers are hoping to prove the preserve is still popular with
Brits and that a growing number are now making their own. They want to see last year’s record of over 1,100 amateur and commercial marmalade
entrants from across the globe to the prestigious marmalade contest smashed.
The Awards are part of this quintessentially British festival which is being held at the historic Dalemain Mansion, in the Lake District, UK on February 25th and 26th 2012. The event, which kicks off the first ever National Marmalade Week, boasts appearances from Paddington Bear, marmalade-making workshops, bread-making demonstrations, as well as a Marmalade Church service and a Marmalade concert. Tickets for the workshops and the concert are still available, details on the website.
Categories for the 2012 Awards include:
Artisan Competition rewarding the Double Gold winner with the unique opportunity to have their marmalade sold at Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly, London. This sets a standard that is internationally recognised and offers a significant business opportunity for winning entrants. Gold, silver & bronze awards will be given to the best marmalades with specially designed certificates to display.
Bed & Breakfast, Hotel Owners’ & Cookery Schools’ Competition, for those in the hospitality trade who serve their own preserves to guests.
Amateur Competition comprising:
- Seville Orange Marmalade for the traditionalists!
- Its A Family Affair where whole families, groups of friends and schools can enter…either with children or without
- Any Citrus Marmalade
- Dark &/or Chunky
- Marmalade Man Made with two categories: Seville; and Dark &/or Chunky
- Novices (sponsored by the Jam Jar Shop)
- Heritage (sponsored by Mackays) using recipes handed down the generations
- Peers & Political
- Merry with alcohol
- International (sponsored by Mackays) – fly your national flag and add a local twist!
- Marmalade for the Monarch – the winning marmalade in this category will be sent to Buckingham Palace as a gift to celebrate the
Diamond Jubilee
Judging for the World’s Original Marmalade Awards will be undertaken by a prestigious panel of judges including preserving expert and author Pam Corbin, Tiptree managing director Walter Scott and Dan Lepard, award-winning baker and Guardian food writer who will taste the hundreds of expected entries.
Further entry details including a downloadable entry form, category criteria, submission details and entry fees can be found by visiting: www.marmaladeawards.com. All amateur entry fees will be donated to charity. The 2012 beneficiaries are Hospice at Home and Action Medical Research.
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For further information, please contact Emma Mason PR:
Emma Mason: 07762 117433 /emma@emmamasonpr.co.uk
Louise Barnett: 07713 742685 / louise@emmamasonpr.co.uk
