Deliciouslyorkshire Awards 2009-10

• Category: Deliciouslyorkshire Supreme Product of the Year 2009-2010
• Winner: Yummy Yorkshire Ice Cream Company
• Winning Product: Lou’s Liquorice Ice Cream

This was a new award introduced in 2008, and was selected by the judges from all the shortlisted product entries this year – so it really is the ‘best of the best’.

What the judges said… “A real all-round Yorkshire product showing true Yorkshire heritage…brave and original”

Website: http://www.yorkshiremilk.co.uk/ice_cream.php

Sponsored by: Proudfoot Food Stores

• Category: Fresh Meat, Poultry and Game
• Winner: Yorkshire Dales Meat Company
• Winning Product: Aberdeen Angus 7 Week Matured Sirloin Steak

Locally sourced Aberdeen Angus is hung and matured for 7 weeks before being skilfully butchered to produce the perfect steak.

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/yorkshiredalesmeatcompany/

Shortlisted:

Wharfedale Duckling - Geo Middlemiss & Son
Aberdeen Angus 7 Week Aged Rib Eye Steak - Yorkshire Dales Meat Company

Sponsored by: The OPM Group

• Category: Prepared Meat
• Winner: Taste Tradition Ltd
• Winning Product: Rare Breed Saddleback Hambleton Lightning Ham

Family-run Taste Tradition specialises in producing traditionally-farmed rare breed pork, beef, suckling pig and sausages. Its beer cured ham uses the award-winning ‘Hambleton Lightning’ ale, not only for its rich taste but also its deep colour.

Website: http://www.tastetradition.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Pork and Caramelised Red Onion Sausage - Yorkshire Dales Meat Company
Mrs K’s Golden Sultana & Sage Black Pudding - Yorkshire Dales Meat Company

Sponsored by: Yorkshire Forward

• Category: Confectionery
• Winner: Ripley Fudge Kitchen
• Winning Product: Homemade Chocolate Fudge

The team in Ripley have extended the famous ice cream parlour to include a traditional fudge kitchen, making their luxury fudge in the traditional way, using only the finest ingredients.

Shortlisted:

Yorkshire Honeycomb Slab - White Rabbit Chocolate Company
Homemade Baileys Fudge - Ripley Fudge Kitchen

Sponsored by: Foundation Marketing Communications

• Category: Fish & Seafood
• Winner: Mackenzies Yorkshire Smokehouse
• Winning Product: Oak Roast Salmon

Pioneers of some of the finest smoked foods available, Mackenzie’s use traditional methods of curing and smoking, burning only pure oak to ensure the best natural flavours.

Website: http://www.yorkshiresmokehouse.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Breaded Scampi -Whitby Seafoods
Hot ‘n’ Spicy Prawns - Whitby Seafoods

Sponsored by: Yorkshire & Humber Seafood Group

• Category: Prepared Food
• Winner: Yorkshire Baker
• Winning Product: Gluten Free Beef Steak and Mushroom Pie

A small wholesale bakery making and supplying high quality savoury products to local delis and farm shops.

Shortlisted:

Bradford Balti Wrap - Tiffin Sandwiches Ltd.
Henderson’s Yorkshire Sauce Crisps - Yorkshire Crisps

Sponsored by: Bartlett & Company

• Category: Fresh Produce
• Winner: W S Bentley Growers
• Winning Product: Sprouting Peas

A second generation family business, W S Bentley grows pesticide-free traditional salad cress and an award winning range of sprouting seeds and beans.

Website: http://www.wsbentley.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Soup to Go, Cream of Tomato – Stuarts Foods
Fresh Herb Selection - Herbs Unlimited

Sponsored by: Stockbridge Technology Centre

• Category: Drinks
• Winner: Little Valley Brewery
• Winning Product: Withens IPA

An organic brewery situated in Hebden Bridge, producing an inspired range with a refreshing taste.

Website: http://www.littlevalleybrewery.co.uk/

Shortlisted:

Apple Juice - Yorkshire Wolds Apples
Ginger Pale Ale - Little Valley Brewery

Sponsored by: The Grimsby Institute

• Category: Cheese
• Winner: Shepherds Purse Cheeses
• Winning Product: Monks Folly

Shepherds Purse Cheeses produce handmade artisan traditional cheeses from ewes, cows and water buffalo milk at its BRC accredited dairy at Thirsk.

Website: http://www.shepherdspurse.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Ewes Milk Cheese - Swaledale Cheese Company
Goats Milk Cheese - Swaledale Cheese Company

Sponsored by: Booths

• Category: Dairy
• Winner: Yummy Yorkshire Ice Cream Company
• Winning Product: Lou’s Liquorice Ice Cream

Over 50 recipes of traditional, seasonal and contemporary ice cream produced using quality ingredients from locally sourced suppliers

Website: http://www.yorkshiremilk.co.uk/ice_cream.php

Shortlisted:

Ginger Ice Cream - A B Moore Farmers Ltd (Brymor)
Rum and Raisin - A B Moore Farmers Ltd (Brymor)

Sponsored by: Fresh RM (IFE and Speciality)

• Category: Herbs, Spices, Oils, Condiments and Preserves
• Winner: York Preserves
• Winning Product: Double Fruit Raspberry Jam

York preserves offer a unique range of traditional luxury preserves and condiments, locally produced by hand in small batches.

Website: http://www.yorkpreserves.com

Shortlisted:

Elijah’s Yorkshire Chutney - Raydale Preserves
Strawberry Jam - Raydale Preserves

Sponsored by: CenFRA

• Category: Bakery
• Winner: Dandelion and Burdock Cake
• Winning Product: Proper Maid

Huddersfield company Proper Maid is famous for creating cakes with a twist with an innovative product range.

Shortlisted:

Cappuccino Cake- Stickylicious
Assorted Biscuit Tin- Grandma Wild’s

Sponsored by: ASDA

• Category: Farm Shop Retailer of the Year 2009-2010
• Winner: The Farmers Cart

An award-winning delicatessen and restaurant serving its own freshly picked home-grown fruits and vegetables, along with an array of Yorkshire cheeses and traditionally reared meat from the newly opened butchery counter

Website: http://www.thefarmerscart.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Beadlam Grange Farm Shop & Tea Room
The Balloon Tree Farm Shop & Café

Sponsored by: Welcome to Yorkshire

• Category: Independent Retailer of the Year 2009-2010
• Winner: Fodder

The newly opened, flagship food shop and café set up and championed by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society offers consumers the very best in food and drink from Yorkshire & Humber.

Website: http://www.fodderweb.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Lewis and Cooper
Simpson’s of Leeds

Sponsored by: Montpelier Chartered Accountants

• Category: Best Use of Regional Produce on the Menu - Café/Tearoom
• Winner: Cedarbarn Farm Shop & Café

Last year’s winner in this category, offering customers the opportunity to sample some of the farm’s local and seasonal produce.

Shortlisted:

Roots Farm Shop
Pink Pig Farm
Beadlam Grange Farm Shop & Tearoom

Sponsored by: Hygicare

• Category: Best Use of Regional Produce on the Menu - Restaurant/Pub/Inn
• Winner: The Black Swan at Oldstead

Offering a carefully balanced choice of exciting innovative dishes and refined classical favourites – strongly tied to the seasonal availability of top quality ingredients from local producers.

Website: http://www.blackswanoldstead.co.uk

Shortlisted:

The Crown Inn, Roecliffe
The Butcher’s Arms

Sponsored by: Stuart’s Foods

• Category: Deliciouslyorkshire Breakfast Member of the Year 2009-2010
• Winner: Nethergill Farm

A Victorian farmhouse, offering a top quality breakfast menu brimming with local produce.

Website: http://www.nethergill.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Stoney End
Low Penhowe

Sponsored by: Yorkshire Agricultural Society

• Category: Award for Innovation 2009-2010
• Winner: The Balloon Tree Farm Shop & Café

With no “off the shelf” packages available for its business, The Balloon Tree has been innovative in devising its own programmes and systems. Examples include a crop viability study, bespoke and home-engineered equipment such as its asparagus/strawberry harvesting machine called ‘Big Blue’ and automated irrigation systems.

Website: http://www.theballoontree.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Fodder
Tiffin Sandwiches Ltd

Sponsored by: Food Chain Centre of Industrial Collaboration

• Category: Outstanding Newcomer 2009-2010
• Winner: Roots Farmshop & Café

At the heart of an established working family farm, Roots cafe offers visitors the opportunity to relax and enjoy its delicious homemade food.

Website: http://www.rootsfarmshop.co.uk

Shortlisted:

Yorkshire Wolds Apples
Nethergill Farm

Sponsored by: Business Link Yorkshire