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12 - Cooroy Rag, 20 October 2021
WHAT started as a hobby has boiled into a business. Pomona Mum, Carly Mullins, first started making homemade jams and chutneys four years ago. Carly told the Cooroy Rag that she was making preserves for friends and family when she learned she could enter them in the Ekka. “My husband is a FIFO worker, so I’m a stay-athome mum with our two boys. “I got into jam making while staying at home and got wind that anyone can enter the Ekka and local show competitions, so I thought I’d give it a go and I was really successful.” Over the past four years, Carly’s preserves have taken out numerous first prizes in different
categories. “This year I became Grand Champion with my lime butter in the Preserves Category at the Ekka. “I also won at the Noosa Show with my lime and lemon butter, orange marmalade and chutneys. For the first time this year I also entered the cooking class and won as Champion Cookery Exhibitor and Champion Baking Exhibitor as well as Champion Preserve Exhibitor. “I received First Prize for my citrus marmalade, orange marmalade, fig jam, cumquat marmalade, apricot jam, melting moments, jam drops and pumpkin scones.” Carly’s award-winning jams and chutney are her own recipes, using locally sourced ingredients. “All the recipes I’ve
created over the years were through trial and error. I’d give them to people to sample and get good feedback so I kept going with them. “This year at the Ekka I entered combinations like mango, cranberry, pear and apple and rhubarb chutneys.” Carly is currently in the process of installing a commercial kitchen that will allow her to sell her preserves for the first time. “We have just under two acres here in Pomona where we have all the citrus growing, and what I don’t grow, I buy locally for my preserves. “I’ve just registered the company name, Laduka Preserves, which is a mix of my boys’ names”.
