People miss all kinds of things about the UK but different types of food are always high on the list. Today we focus on Mrs Darlington's who supply us with all manner of jams, preserves, ketchups, pickles, chutneys, marmalades and curds. Exactly the sort of range you'd find in a farm shop, the gingham-topped jars are an icon of bucolic country Britishness, evoking WI meetings, ploughman's lunches, country pubs and coastal bed & breakfasts.
Whilst Mrs Darlington's started with lemon curd and developed into many well-established British favourites, they also have quite innovative variations of your typical larder fayre. The Trading Post try to stock something for both the traditionalists and the more adventurous. Just try their three-fruit marmalade (spoiler alert: one of the fruits is grapefruit), the rhubarb and ginger jam or some genuinely incomparable mango, chilli & lime ketchup.
Each jar has a gingham-patterned paper top that makes it stylish as well as tasty. They are excellent gifts, especially when paired with a local cheese and, with Christmas coming up, we know there'll be a few jars appearing in stockings and homemade hampers throughout the land.
There will be one of these traditional countryside treats in every Trading Post prize package this November. Just order any day in November to go into the draw.
