Cairnsmhor win Great Taste Awards for their biscuits
Posted by admin | Under Baking, Food Awards Monday Jul 26, 2010
Cairnsmhor Crushed Black Pepper Crackers
Cairnsmhor products, a range of hand baked biscuits, oatcakes and crackers, has won seven gold awards at the prestigious Great Taste Awards. These included four 2-star gold awards and three 1-star gold awards for products including their Haggis Flavour Oatcakes, Lemon Shorties and Wholegrain Mustard Crackers.
The Great Taste Awards are considered the most important food award scheme in the UK. Rigorous and completely independent, Great Taste is to speciality food and drink what Michelin is to fine dining. In total more than six thousand food and drink products were blind-tasted, tested and discussed during two months of intense judging by 350 judges, comprising food writers, chefs, deli and farm shop owners, food producers and buyers. To achieve a two star gold award up to 20 judges must agree that a product is ‘faultless’.
Cairnsmhor is a luxury food range that takes classic products and gives them an indulgent injection of flavour. With a Scottish feel but broad appeal, all Cairnsmhor products are hand baked in Scotland, using Scotland’s finest ingredients.
The gold award winning products received the following comments by the judges:
Crushed Black Pepper Crackers
Add some good brie on a hot summers’ day – yum! The pepper is inviting rather than overpowering. Good texture. Good fresh pepper aroma and flavour. Characterful.
Parmesan & Pepper Oatcakes
The size and texture and thickness is great. The pepper does come through well and is pleasant. With a little more tweaking of flavours this could warrant 3 stars.
Wholegrain Mustard Crackers (New)
This is a lovely product. The flavour of mustard is good and subtle, but you can definitely taste it. The flavour wouldn’t interrupt the (added) cheese though. It has a great texture as well – baked very well and a good crunch. This is an excellent product. Good crisp texture. Mild mustard flavour.
Haggis Flavour Oatcakes
Lovely flavour, which does capture the savoury flavour of haggis. Good texture with the oatmeal as well. An excellent product in the way that it captures the flavour of haggis.
Traditional Scottish Oatcakes
Good oaty texture strong flavour. Good balance sweet/savoury. You can taste full flavour of oats rather than sugar or salt as is often the case with oatcakes. Good flavour including salt; worthy of a gold.
Lemon Shorties
Lovely product. A great texture, not too short but just the right level of crunch. The lemon flavour is great, not overpowering but definitely evident.
Raspberry Shortcake
The product looks great and is innovative. The raspberry flavour is good.
Cairnsmhor is available in delis and independent retailers across the UK or direct from www.thistleproducts.co.uk .
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