For the 3rd successive year, culinary maverick and Creative Chef & Founder of the Sussex-based Ouse Valley Foods, Mrs Julian Warrender has been commissioned to create a new ‘themed’ jelly for the world renowned Glyndebourne Opera House. This year Julian has taken her inspiration from the new production of Macbeth - one of six productions being staged at Glyndebourne this summer – and has created a “Macbeth” redcurrant jelly.

 

The new jelly is an appropriate “blood red” in colour, with whole redcurrants magically suspended within it, has a Shakespearean script ‘M’ on the jar and a tartan neck tie ribbon round the lid. Julian has created the jelly using a unique fruit stock made by her from Sussex Bramley apples and then local redcurrants are added and “suspended” within the brightly coloured crystal clear set. The Macbeth redcurrant jelly will be available for sale in the Glyndebourne shop and the 100g jar is priced at £3.95. 

 

The “Macbeth” jelly is the 3rd one Julian has made for Glyndebourne. The 1st one was a “Carmen” red hot chilli jelly in 2008 (and a Great Taste Awards Gold Medal winner), the 2nd one, last year and when Glyndebourne was celebrating its 75th Anniversary, Julian made two “Fairy” jellies for their production of The Fairy Queen. One jelly was an Elderflower & Gold jelly – with pure edible gold flakes suspended within it - and the second jelly was a Cranberry & Silver jelly – with edible silver flakes suspended inside. The Red Chilli jelly and Fairy jellies are now part of the current OVF product range and are available in 100g jars for the Fairy jellies and in a 227g jar for the Red Chilli jelly.

 

The new season at Glyndebourne begins on the 20th May and runs through until the 29th August and the new production of Macbeth starts on the 13th June and runs for twelve performances until the 24th July.

 

To view the complete range of Ouse Valley Foods’ impossibly irresistible soft set and crystal clear jellies with a taste to match their stunning appearance, please visit the OVF website – www.ousevalleyfoods.com – for details, images and stockists.

 

Formed just over five years ago and based in East Sussex not far from Glyndebourne, Ouse Valley Foods produces “totally natural, perfectly beautiful and utterly delicious” jams & conserves, curds, sweet marmalades, jellies, chutneys, pickles, relishes, savoury marmalades, fresh products and fresh cakes. They have entered and won Great Taste awards each year since 2006 and have also won other prestigious awards in the National Chutney Challenge, the World’s Original Marmalade Festival and the Campaign to Protect Rural England Sussex Field to Table Award.  Full details of these awards can be found on the OVF website.