2012 Buninyong Marvellous Marmalade Fair

At the Buninyong Marvellous Marmalade Fair held on 5th February 2012, a large crowd of interested entrants and supporters filled the Buninyong Town Hall for the official opening of this inaugural event by Ballarat Mayor, Cr Mark Harris. The 95 marmalade jars entered from around Australia, with every State and the ACT represented, were judged by the two CWA Judges who had travelled for some 2 and a half hours that morning.

Sue Gass and Barbara Porter did a sterling job in assessing and scoring each entry on the basis of:

• Presentation (max 2)
• Colour (5)
• Consistency, Texture and Quality (6)
• Flavour and Aroma (7)
• Total of 20 points

Individual entrants were awarded prizes for the different citrus classes as well as the man-made class. Prize-winners came from across Australia, including Julie Lawrence from WA and Ailsa Rowley in Queensland as well as around Victoria with Genevieve Schwarze, Ann Marston, Sandra Plunkett and Best in Show winner, Anne-Marie Primmer, taking out First Prize in various classes.

Closer to Buninyong, First Prize winners included Lyn Fleming and Sheila Etchells, while June Henderson did extraordinarily well in taking out all three prizes in the grapefruit class and winning another. Neville Wilson, a first-time marmalade-maker, won the man-made class from a strong field from around Australia.

Selection of the Australian and Buninyong XIs - Prue Bentley, Chief Selector

Following the judging, the Australian XI was then very carefully selected in conjunction with Sue and Barbara by Chief Selector, Prue Bentley who is ABC Presenter in Ballarat. Prue's task was to select a balanced team as, after all, Australia would never send a cricket team of all bowlers or all batsmen - so the choice was amongst the Sevilles, the limes, the grapefruit, the orange and lemon or the three-fruit, for example. And the team selected even featured a tangelo marmalade!

England, having been stung by their loss in 2011, was obviously worried about our team this year as they appointed Hugh Fearnely-Whittingstall, the well-known foodie and presenter of the River Cottage TV series, as their Coach/Selector and he even submitted a jar of his own. But all to no avail as he was soundly beaten by Prue's crew! Buninyong marmaladiers were not represented in the Australian XI in fairness to those further afield as they also had access to the Buninyong Village XI which is up against an English Village XI and still awaiting judging in Cumbria.

A Call to our Marmy Army of marmalade-makers around Australia - get ready for the 2013 event!

Next year's Buninyong Marvellous Marmalade Fair will be held on Sunday 3rd February so everyone is encouraged to make marmalade through the year and save their 2-Jar entries to send to Buninyong in January. Entry details are at Rules & Entry Form

Buninyong Marvellous Marmalade Fair - 2012 Results

Results - Individual

Class	Marmalade	Place	Placegetter	Points (20)	From
Class 1	Seville orange	1st 2nd 3rd	Lyn Fleming Sheila Etchells Russell Luckock	19.0 16.5 16.0	Buninyong Newington Buninyong
Class 2	Grapefruit	1st 2nd 3rd	June Henderson June Henderson June Henderson	18.5 18.0 17.5	Mt Helen Mt Helen Mt Helen
Class 3	Grapefruit Pink/Ruby	1st 2nd 3rd	June Henderson June Henderson Lyn Fleming	19.5 17.5 16.0	Mt Helen Mt Helen Buninyong
Class 4	Sweet orange	1st 2nd 3rd	Anne-Marie Primmer Julie Lawrence Genevieve Schwarze	19.5 17.5 16.5	Eltham Picton WA Glenroy
Class 5	Cumquat	1st 2nd 3rd	Sandra Plunkett Ailsa Rowley Lyn Collins	17.5 16.5 16.0	Mt Waverly Balcomba Qld Torquay
Class 6	Three-fruit	1st 2nd 3rd	Neville Wilson Stan Haintz Stan Haintz	17.0 16.5 15.0	Buninyong Creswick Creswick
Class 7	Orange and lemon	1st 2nd 3rd	Anne Marston Lyn Fleming Barbara Dennis	18.0 17.0 16.0	Bowenvale Buninyong Mt Helen
Class 8	Lemon	1st 2nd 3rd	Genevieve Schwarze Jill Salathiel Anne Marston	16.5 16.0 15.5	Glenroy Buninyong Bowenvale
Class 9	Other citrus	1st 2nd 3rd	Sheila Etchells Sheila Etchells Genevieve Schwarze	19.0 18.5 18.3	Newington Newington Glenroy
Class 10	Man-made marmalade	1st 2nd 3rd	Neville Wilson Stan Haintz Russell Luckock	17.0 16.5 16.0	Buninyong Creswick Buninyong
Class 11	Junior (under 18)	No entries this year
Best in Show			Anne-Marie Primmer	19.5	Eltham

Results - Teams
The two teams as selected:

Australian XI
up against the England XI for the MarmalAshes

(selected jars came from Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria)

Team No.	Marmalade	Team member	From
1	Cumquat	Sandra Plunkett	Vic
2	Orange and lemon	Ann Marston	Vic
3	Lemon and carrot	Ann Marston	Vic
4	Cumquat	Ailsa Rowley	Qld
5	Seville orange & ginger	Vixy Cowan	Tas
6	Tangelo	Ms Noel Bison	Vic
7	Three-fruit	Stan Haintz	Vic
8	Lime	Genevieve Schwarze	Vic
9	Sweet orange	Genevieve Schwarze	Vic
10	Lemon and ginger	Genevieve Schwarze	Vic
11	Orange	Anne-Marie Primmer	Vic
12	Seville orange	Gavin Drew	Vic

Buninyong Village XI
up against an English Village XI

(selected jars from Buninyong-associated marmalade-makers)

Team No.	Marmalade	Team member
1	Seville orange	Lyn Fleming
2	Orange and lemon	Lyn Fleming
3	Blood orange	Lyn Fleming
4	Grapefruit and ginger	June Henderson
5	Grapefruit Ruby	June Henderson
6	Seville orange	Russell Luckock
7	Grapefruit Jeanie	Russell Luckock
8	Orange	Jean Goudappel
9	Mandarin and orange	Sheila Etchells
10	Three-fruit	Neville Wilson
11	Lemon and lime	Jill Salathiel
12	Sweet orange	Sheila Etchells

 

The Australian XI and Buninyong Village XI get a Mayoral send-off by Ballarat Mayor, Cr Mark Harris, on their way to the International Marmalade Awards in Cumbria, UK. The Buninyong Marmalade Association Committee are (l to r) Neville Wilson, Lyn Fleming, the Mayor, Russell Luckock (President), June Henderson, Sheila Etchells and Judy Wilson. Absent; Mike Lake. (Ballarat City Council photo)

The Committee are deeply grateful to the two CWA Judges, Sue Gass and Barbara Porter, as well as to Prue Bentley, ABC Radio Ballarat, for the wonderful job they all did in making the event such a success.

 

 

 

 

 

Expert CWA Judges, Barbara Porter (left) and Sue Gass (right) with Prue Bentley, ABC Ballarat who was Chief Selector of the 2012 Australian XI and Buninyong Village XI