Carrbridge puts on a spurtle in great calendar competition!
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With a packed programme of events in Scotland already this year, Carrbridge is really stirring it!
There’s the Commonwealth Games, the referendum and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn...and now, tastiest of all, there’s the 21st Golden Spurtle™ World Porridge Making Championships.
The huge popular event is to be staged in Carrbridge Village Hall on Saturday October 4.
Entries for the competition will open on Wednesday (21) and organisers have confirmed that they will be welcomed from professional chefs, food experts, enthusiasts and home cooks keen to wrest the coveted Golden Spurtle from the hands of formidable reigning twice champion, Strathglass man John Boa.
In previous years the trophy has returned with the winners to the USA, Germany and closer to home in Scotland.
As well as the traditional porridge competition, competitors compete in the Speciality competition, where contestants are free to add other ingredients to porridge to produce an array of sweet and savoury dishes.
The reigning Speciality Champion is Nick Barnard, joint founder and Managing Director of Rude Health who won in 2013 with his ‘Fruity Date Porridge’.
With demand expected to be high, potential porridge stirrers are being encouraged to submit their entries earlier than usual so that they arrive by the closing date of midsummer’s day, June 21.
Last year entries included a chef and owner of a porridge bar in Copenhagen; a grain miller and Sweden’s Nordic Porridge Making Champion; an astrophysics student with the formula for cooking porridge and a Texan mother and cook.
There are also national competitions in America, Scandinavia and England, with the winners winning a place to travel to, and compete in Carrbridge, the renowned home of the Golden Spurtle.
Details and entries via the event web site www.goldenspurtle.com
