Mamaladee

Marmalade Competition  

The aim of the Festival is to promote marmalade which is an essential part of a traditional English Breakfast and to recognise the many different varieties and taste of Marmalade. We hope to encourage people to continue to practise the traditional marmalade making skills and, by introducing a category for Bed and Breakfast Marmalade, to include the tourist industry.

This year the competition attracted over 400 entries, which was up on last year, this included a number of international entries, including Japan and Canada, the Canadian entry from Mrs Pugh won the Dark and Chunky category. Thanks for the great response and congratulations to all our winners.

Winners

Best of the Best 2008 – Vivien Lloyd - Somerset

1) Traditional Seville Orange - Vivien Lloyd - Somerset
2) Any Citrus – Jonathan Hamel-Cooke – Aylesbury Bucks
3) Organic Marmalade – Hazel Trotter –Calthwaite, Penrith
4) Best Bed & Breakfast – Janet Dixon-Smith – Leicestershire
5) Children – Sally Gate – Carlisle
6) Man Made – Anthony Worner – Somerset
7) Clergy – The Reverend Ann Christie
8) Dark Chunky – Elizabeth Pugh – Yukon, Canada
9) Political and Peers of the Realm – Eric Martlew MP – Carlisle

Best Decorated Pot – Charles Dunn - Penton, Carlisle
Best Decorated Pot (child) – Jack Trotter – Calthwaite, Penrith

Sticky Paws Approval Certificates

Jack Trotter (x 4), Finn Wostear, Alex Kay, Janet Miles, Josephine Miles, Sarah Gate (x 2), Amelia Evans, Emilia Burbury, Oliver Burbury, Shonagh Simpson, Jack Williams-Ellis+Teresa Leeming+James Weir+Rosalind Weir.

The Competitions  was judged by the Cumbria Women's Institute, and by celebrity judges:  The Master of the Worshipful Company of Fruiters, The Master of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, Dan Lepard, Baker and Food Writer, Annette Gibbons,  Cumbria's TV Chef, Colin Aikrigg of Sharrow Bay and Pam Corbin of Thursday Cottage.

PRIZES FOR THE MARMALADE COMPETITION 2008

The prize for the Bed & Breakfast category winner will be Dinner, Bed and Breakfast for 2 at the Sharrow Bay Hotel. The prize for Categories 1,2,3,7,78 & 9 will be Dinner for 2 at the Sharrow Bay Hotel.  
Paddington Bear will help to judge the children's marmalade category  and if the marmalade reaches his required standard he will give them a 'Sticky Paws Award'.  The winner of the category will receive a signed Paddington Bear book
The overall winner will be presented with a silver marmalade spoon especially commissioned for the Festival crafted by  Anthony Farrell.
There will also be a prize for the best decorated jar