Our Homemade Marmalade Competition
Sponsored by Mackays and Paddington Bear
Jar up your Marmalade for the 10th Marmalade Awards Celebrations in 2015
The Amateur Category for home-made marmalades has grown from 50 jars to nearly 2,400 jars in 2014, posted to us from all over the World, including The British Virgin Islands, Japan, America, Canada, Spain, France, Gibraltar, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland, Alaska, Austria, South Africa, USA and South Korea.
All marmalade makers readily rise to a challenge and enter their marmalades into whichever class catches their eye – from traditional Seville to Merry (with alcohol), Citrus with Interesting Additions, First Timers, Political, Children's, Man-made, Organic, Marmalade Hall of Fame, Family Tree, International etc.
Each jar is tasted and marked by the Cumbrian W.I.together with a team of Artisan judges and where it attains sufficient marks is then awarded a Dalemain Gold, Silver or Bronze. Each entrant receives a mark card with the judges feedback, a certificate designed by the artist Mungo McCosh and a thank you letter and two for one entry to Dalemain Mansion & Historic Gardens.
The best-in-show marmalade, is chosen from all the Gold Winners and is presented with a Dalemain Double Gold Award. The winner is then invited to have their recipe produced and scaled up by Fortnum & Mason (Dalemain’s southern outpost!) for a period of 1 year and it is sold at their store as well as in The Marmalade Shop at Dalemain. A sum of 50p from each jar sold is donated to Hospice at Home around the world.
The Homemade Award Categories 2015 - Ten Sticky Years of those golden pots of marmalade raising over £150,000 for charity. The full entry fee goes to charity.
We are pleased to announce the 2015 Home-made Award Categories with NEW categories to celebrate our 10th Anniversary:
- Seville Orange Marmalade (Sponsored by Mackays)
- Military Marmalade - NEW
- Dark & Chunky Marmalade
- Clergy Marmalade - NEW
- Children's Marmalade - For Children 13 and under with a little help from an adult (Sponsored by Paddington Bear).
- Man-Made Marmalade
- The '10th Anniversary Marmalade' with Interesting Additions - (Sponsored by Paddington Bear)
- First Timers
- A Stirring of the Clans....United by Marmalade NEW
- International & Commonwealth Marmalade (Sponsored by Mackays)
- Merry Marmalade - Marmalade with alcohol (Sponsored by Laithwaite's Wines)
- Campanologists Marmalade - NEW
- Any Citrus Marmalade
- Peers & Political Marmalade - NEW
- A Marmalade McNab (Sponsored by Country Life) - NEW
The Homemade Awards Category Flyer & Entry Form 2015 is now available to download.
Source: http://www.dalemainmarmaladeawards.co.uk/cms/competitions/homemade-awards.php