Month: April 2013

Duerr’s helps raise £88,000 for Wythenshawe Hospital

Posted on by Sally Addenbrook

Duerr’s Cash For Kids Bake Offs, which took place across Manchester last week, have helped raise £88,000 (and counting!) for Key 103 and their Wythenshawe (UHSM) Hospital Outpatients Department campaign!

As passionate bakers Duerr’s encouraged as many people as possible to host a cake sale or coffee morning on 26th April to raise vital cash. To lend a hand, Duerr’s provided the first 200 companies, schools or individuals, who registered their details with jars of jam. That enabled fundraisers across Manchester to hold a cake sale packed full of firm bottoms and sticky moments which did the patron saint of baking – Mary Berry – proud.

With the final donations still coming in, the money raised will enable the transformation of a concrete wasteland into a garden area to be used by 8,000 children.

Duerr’s launches Cash For Kids Bake Off with Key 103

Posted on by Sally Addenbrook

Duerr’s has teamed up with Key 103’s Cash for Kids Day to raise £100,000 for Wythenshawe (UHSM) Hospital Outpatients Department!

The aim is to transform a concrete wasteland into a garden area to be used by 8,000 children.

Register for free jam

As passionate bakers Duerr’s is encouraging as many people as possible to host a cake sale or coffee morning on 26th April to raise vital cash.  To lend a hand, Duerr’s will provide the first 200 companies, schools or individuals, who register their details via this form, with jars of jam.

The jars can then be collected from either Key 103’s offices [Key 103, Castlequay, Castlefield, Manchester M15 4PR] or Duerr’s reception [Floats Rd, Roundthorn Industrial Estate, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9DR] between Monday 22nd to Thursday 25th April.  One of the lovely team at Key 103 will give you a call to arrange a pick-up time.

All that’s left is that fundraisers across Manchester hold a cake sale packed full of firm bottoms and sticky moments that do the patron saint of baking – Mary Berry – proud.  Happy baking!

Please note this promotion has now ended

Crack a firm bottom with Duerr’s at the Manchester Cake & Bake Show

Posted on by Sally Addenbrook

Come and see us at stand 182 for jam and scones, our brand new baking recipes and the best spreads on show!

Duerr’s, the UK’s oldest family owned jam company that has been preserving tradition since 1881, has launched a brand new recipe collection of brilliantly British puds to celebrate the Cake and Bake Show in Manchester.

Hot on the heels of their Baking for Boys series, the jam makers are sharing some family classics to show you, you don’t have to be a master baker to crack a firm bottom!

The recipes recovered from the family archives, include: childhood favourites – Jammy Biscuits (click here for the recipe), delicate Victoria Sponge Drops (click here for how to make) and a delicious Orange Marmalade and Almond Cake (full recipe here).

Ideal for novices in kitchens across the nation, these recipes are available on easy to follow cards for show attendees, plus online, to help even the least likely how to stiff a sponge, pop their buns in the oven and produce a perfect glaze.

So what are you waiting for?  Whip out your ‘pin, flour your surface and bring your best Great British Bake Off spirit to the kitchen.

Fast facts:

  • Oldest family-run jam company in the UK
  • Based in Manchester
  • Produced preserves to the same family recipe for the last 131 years, over five generations
  • Award-winning innovators – created the headline-making Aphrodisiac Jam, containing natural Viagra, horny goatweed, released this Valentine’s
    • Created the first squeezy bottles for jam (1988)
    • Introduced tamper evident button caps (1991)
    • Launched the Orbit lid, an easy-to-open lid, perfect for arthritis sufferers (2011)
    • £60m turnover