Credits

The Yorkshire Awards Committee is grateful to all our supporters and donors who have so generously contributed goods, services or support.

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BETTYS OF HARROGATE

When Bettys opened its doors for the first time in 1919 it was just as our founder, Frederick Belmont, had visualised – customers were greeted by a tempting array of delicious Yorkshire and Continental confections in the shop, and an elegant Café Tea Room served teas and meals in the traditional English style. It was an immediate success.

Over eighty years later and we welcome more than one million customers a year to Bettys. We’re still a family business and continue to stay true to Frederick’s founding principles that everything should be ‘fresh and dainty’ and that ‘if we want things just right we have to do them ourselves’.

There are six Bettys Café Tea Rooms to explore: the spa town of Harrogate has two branches (one in the town centre and a second at the RHS garden at Harlow Carr) as does York (Little Bettys is just around the corner in Stonegate), and you’ll also find Bettys in the market towns of Northallerton and Ilkley. All our cakes, breads and chocolates – more than 600 lines – are made by hand at our Craft Bakery, and our extensive range of teas and coffees are selected by our sister company, Taylors of Harrogate.

http://www.bettysandtaylors.co.uk

Bettys of Harrogate kindly sponsor and produce the Yorkshire Awards after dinner chocolates

Wensleydale Creamery

Wensleydale cheese has been made in Wensleydale since 1150, when the Cistercian monks first settled in the dale. Today, following a management buyout in 1992, after the Creamery was closed by its owners, Wensleydale cheese in still handmade to a time honoured traditional recipe, using milk from local farms, where the cows graze the sweet limestone pastures, rich in herbs. It is this herbage that gives the milk & hence the cheese its special Dales flavour!

Continuing to enjoying global acclaim for their cheese, The Wensleydale Creamery have developed a fantastic range of award winning cheese that combine tradition with innovation.

Why not visit their visitor centre at the Creamery at Hawes in Wensleydale & watch Real Wensleydale milk being made into Real Wensleydale Cheese!

Shepherds Purse

Thirsk, North Yorkshire-based Shepherds Purse Cheeses, established by Judy Bell in 1988 as part of a diversification scheme on the Bell family farm, was the first company to reintroduce artisan blue cheesemaking to Yorkshire since its disappearance in the sixties with the rationalisation of the dairy industry. It launched initially to fill a niche in the market to provide sheep’s milk products, but now boasts a wide range of cheeses available in major supermarkets, specialist cheese shops and delis nationwide, through a large wholesaler base and overseas.

The multi-award winning range of speciality cheeses is still traditionally handmade using top quality, locally sourced cow’s, ewe’s and water buffalo milk, made to the family’s own recipes. Cheeses include best selling Yorkshire Blue, Mrs Bells Blue, Buffalo Blue, Byland Blue, Fine Fettle Yorkshire Cheese, Olde York, Basilano, Monks Folly, Katy’s White Lavender and local brand Ryedale. The company continues to innovate year on year with new products being introduced.

http://www.shepherdspurse.co.uk