Comments on: Marmalade http://www.justfoodnow.com/2009/09/09/marmalade/ the food blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:40:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: J @ JFN http://www.justfoodnow.com/2009/09/09/marmalade/comment-page-1/#comment-2288 J @ JFN Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:10:47 +0000 http://www.justfoodnow.com/?p=10621#comment-2288 Thanks so much for this super interesting information. Naturally, I will now move heaven and earth to try and get hold of some! Thanks so much for this super interesting information. Naturally, I will now move heaven and earth to try and get hold of some!

]]> By: Tracklements http://www.justfoodnow.com/2009/09/09/marmalade/comment-page-1/#comment-2286 Tracklements Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:07:02 +0000 http://www.justfoodnow.com/?p=10621#comment-2286 In fact there is only one company in the UK which is entitled to call their product Onion Marmalade according to UK Trading Standards:- Tracklements, a small artisan company in Wiltshire first started making Onion Marmalade in 1999 as a result of the founder: William Tullberg finding a recipe for ‘marmulates’ in Sir Kenelm Digby’s 17th century book and combining this with Michel Guerard’s 20th century recipe for Marmelade d’Oignons to create a unique new recipe for Tracklements. This superb product's popularity spread like wildfire, however a jealous competitor reported Tracklements to Trading Standards because they claimed that the neme suggested a citrus product whereas this delicious relish contains onions. So, the trading standards officer duly arrives at Tracklements and explains that, under the then current regulations, they couldn’t sell a non citrus fruit marmalade. However, the Tracklements team went to their ‘food preserving’ library, one of the largest private collections in the UK, and produced several pages of historical fact establishing provenance of marmalades using a variety of fruits and vegetables. These recipes went back over 100 years and included the original Sir Kenelm Digby marmulate recipe. Having submitted this to Trading standards Tracklements were then given permission to use the name Onion Marmalade although other manufacturers were not (presumably because they didn’t cook theirs in the same way). Tracklements Onion Marmalade is made using the same techniques as a citrus marmalade, i.e. gently and carefully cooked until a light set is achieved. www.tracklements.co.uk In fact there is only one company in the UK which is entitled to call their product Onion Marmalade according to UK Trading Standards:-
Tracklements, a small artisan company in Wiltshire first started making Onion Marmalade in 1999 as a result of the founder: William Tullberg finding a recipe for ‘marmulates’ in Sir Kenelm Digby’s 17th century book and combining this with Michel Guerard’s 20th century recipe for Marmelade d’Oignons to create a unique new recipe for Tracklements.
This superb product’s popularity spread like wildfire, however a jealous competitor reported Tracklements to Trading Standards because they claimed that the neme suggested a citrus product whereas this delicious relish contains onions.

So, the trading standards officer duly arrives at Tracklements and explains that, under the then current regulations, they couldn’t sell a non citrus fruit marmalade. However, the Tracklements team went to their ‘food preserving’ library, one of the largest private collections in the UK, and produced several pages of historical fact establishing provenance of marmalades using a variety of fruits and vegetables. These recipes went back over 100 years and included the original Sir Kenelm Digby marmulate recipe.
Having submitted this to Trading standards Tracklements were then given permission to use the name Onion Marmalade although other manufacturers were not (presumably because they didn’t cook theirs in the same way).
Tracklements Onion Marmalade is made using the same techniques as a citrus marmalade, i.e. gently and carefully cooked until a light set is achieved.
http://www.tracklements.co.uk

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