50 years of preserving excellence

This year is significant - we celebrate our 50th birthday. Thursday Cottage was started in a Somerset kitchen in 1963. We may have moved to Essex but nothing much has changed since then - the batches are still small with about 100 jars made from every boil, the ingredients the finest we can find and the recipes simple and deliciously fresh.

Perhaps its the simplicity of our recipes that accounts for our longevity? Whatever the reason, we will be marking this historic milestone with a variety of events and activities over the next few months.

Here's to a very special year

We make over 120 different curds, jams, marmalades, fruit coulis and a host of Christmas and gifting products. All our food is handmade in small batches and cooked in open pans. We stir the fresh ingredients by hand and fill by hand when we can (you get more whole fruit hand pouring) and then hand pack our finished goods off to our customers.

You won't find Thursday Cottage products in the major supermarkets because we like to support independent trade, which is where we started nearly fifty years ago.

We supply good farm shops, delis, foodhalls and garden centres countrywide and we export to about 25 countries.

We also own the jules & sharpie brand and we produce their range of hot preservaments (made with scotch bonnet chillies). Click the link to go to their website: www.julesandsharpie.co.uk

You can find your nearest stockist by using our stockist search here or you can order our products online by clicking here on RedMoped.co.uk.

We are exhibiting at The Suffolk Show at the Ipswich Showground again this year. Please come and find both Thursday Cottage and jules&sharpie in the food hall.