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Award for chutney maker
Ann Stallard of Waterhouse Fayre, near South Molton, North Devon has been awarded three medals by Taste of the West'.
Out of a total of only 9 gold awards given across the Sweet Preserves category for 2008, Ann received two, one for her Raspberry and the second for her Blackberry and Apple jams, while her Devilishly Devon Chutney received a silver in Savoury Preserves.
"As you can imagine I was absolutely delighted with my three awards. This is the second time the Raspberry jam has been awarded gold by Taste of The West, so I must be doing something right," she said.
The Devilishly Devon Chutney is also my own recipe and it took me three different goes to get this just as I wanted it, but a Silver award means that hopefully I have done just that".
Ann and Waterhouse Fayre are no strangers to such awards, having also bagged a Gold * for its Rhubarb and Ginger jam from the Guild of Fine Foods earlier this year.
The awards are a well-deserved achievement for this family business which is run by Ann with help from husband Neil, from their home near South Molton. While Ann is a whizz with the recipes (with a background in cookery demonstrations) and the creation of her preserves, Neil grows two acres of fruit, with the aim of producing high yields and high quality produce, combined with low food miles.
Ann says the business really started by accident! In 2004 Neil's green fingers had resulted in a bumpercrop of raspberries and while they already sold fruit, Ann decided to make some jam and try retailing it via South Molton's Pannier Market.
Using only raspberries and sugar, nothing else, Ann devised a recipe which is classed as Extra', meaning it has a high fruit content (69 grams to the 100 in the case of the Raspberry jam).
This was cooked in her own kitchen where she says her total stock was only around 200 pots of jam, "which I thought was mountains at the time."
2:07pm Friday 5th September 2008
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