Jammy Bakers Blog: March 2014

Saturday 8 March 2014

Children's Winners at the World's Original Marmalade Awards

Our winning entry

Big news - our "Blushing Blood Marmalade" wins the Children's Section of the World's Original Marmalade Awards! We scored 20/20 and it was described by judges as "excellent in every way" This means that we take the title off our big brother, but he doesn't mind!

Christopher also scored 20/20 and got a gold in the Merry Marmalade category with his Blood Orange with Grandad's cider marmalade!

We had lots of sticky red fun squeezing our oranges, slicing peel then turning all of this into the winning marmalade. If you haven't tried blood orange marmalade it is a must! It is sweeter and rosier than seville marmalade. We make our marmalade using a secret recipe. However this will all be revealed next year in a section of the WI Kitchen Stories book. For photos and a write up on the sticky fun we had during our marmalade workshop for Jessica and Louise see http://wikitchenstories.co.uk/marmalade-makers/

For more on the World Marmalade Awards see www.dalemainmarmaladeawards.co.uk.

Lovely blood oranges bursting with red juice

Champagne Marmalade Pancakes from the Jammy Bakers


Warm some and put it on pancakes - yum!

Take one pot of marmalade

The Jammy Bakers are taking part in a March Mackays blogging challenge. Jammy Baker No 1 tasted this marmalade for the first time at the World's Original Marmalade Awards when he won the Children's section in 2013. He got a taste for this marmalade and so when Mackays set a blogging challenge, he requested some of this to cook with! We have been making lots of other recipes with marmalade we will share with you

Jammy Baker No 2 tasted the pancakes and thought they tasted fantastic and Jammy Baker No 3 has written the blog this time.

For Shrove Tuesday,we made pancakes and decided that Mackays Orange Marmalade with Champagne made the perfect sauce to go with them. Here are the instructions:

Ingredients
5 tablespoons of Mackays Orange Marmalade with Champagne
250g (8oz) Plain Flour
3 eggs, lightly beaten
250ml (8fl oz) milk
250ml (8fl oz) water
75ml (21/2 oz) sunflower oil, plus
extra for frying

1. Make your pancakes.
Put flour, eggs, milk, water, and sunflower oil in a big jug and whisk up quickly
Warm some sunflower oil in a pan
Cook your pancakes one at a time

2. Roll them up individually, Put two on each plate.

3. Put 5 tablespoons of Mackays Orange Marmalade with Champagne in the pan and warm until bubbling.

4. Pour a little over the pancakes.

Enjoy!:)

Top Tips:
Serve with ice cream or cream!