BRITAIN’S MOST AWARDED ARTISAN JAMS & MARMALADES

The Artisan Kitchen is me, Sarah Churchill. I trained as a chef, spent years in professional kitchens and, in 2011, stepped away from restaurant life to create something smaller, more personal and entirely my own.

It began with a tree. A Mirabelle plum tree, heavy with fruit, whose harvest was being left to fall untouched. I asked if I could have the plums in exchange for a few jars of jam. One batch became another, and The Artisan Kitchen quietly began.

My training took me from Philip Howard’s two-Michelin-starred restaurant The Square in Mayfair to ten years at Daylesford Organic. That experience still shapes every jar: exceptional fruit, careful balance, traditional copper-pan cooking and flavour placed above everything else.

Championing rare, local and heritage fruit since 2011.

A Gloucestershire Signature

The Blaisdon Red Plum

Of all the fruits I work with, few are as closely woven into The Artisan Kitchen’s story as the rare Gloucestershire Blaisdon Red Plum. In 2013, I made my first commercial batches of Blaisdon Red Plum Jam™, and it soon became one of the jars most closely associated with my Gloucester kitchen.

The Artisan Kitchen has been the original commercial producer of Blaisdon Red Plum Jam™ since 2013.

I make it in small batches at the height of the short plum season, keeping the recipe simple so that the fruit’s deep colour, natural acidity and generous flavour can shine.

The Artisan Kitchen’s Blaisdon Red Plum Jam™ has gone on to build an extraordinary award story of its own and has been tasted and praised by some of Britain’s best-known chefs.

Discover the Blaisdon Red Plum Jam™ story