Single Variety Co

26/05/2025

Nine years of jamming!! 🥳

I can’t believe it’s been nine years since I sold my first jar of jam at a Spring Fair in Balham. Here’s those nine years in photos:

2016: cooking four pans at a time in a horrible shared kitchen in Croydon (it was cheap and I promised myself one day I’d have my own place…)

2017: getting the keys to our very own kitchen space in 🔑

2018: every weekend spent selling jam at farmers markets (thank you and more)

2019: my favourite trade show set up

2020: giant jars!

2021: finding our very own (and very empty!) unit for our Bristol jam factory 🙌

2022: the early jam factory team (baby wasn’t much help)

2023: now we can get huge deliveries of chillies 🔥

2024: expanding our jam kitchen even further 😁

To celebrate this weekend we’re going to be doing a special Jam Fam subscriber offer so make sure you’ve signed up (link in bio!)

A huge thank you for following along all these years! 🙏🙏🙏

23/05/2025

Less than 100 jars left!! 🥭🥭🥭

We will sell out today or tomorrow. This is you last chance to stock up before 2026…

https://www.singlevariety.co.uk/products/alphonso-mango-preserve-225g

13/05/2025

This is it!

Our last delivery of mangoes for 2025 😭

25/04/2025

It’s here! Our Alphonso Mango Preserve is now available, woohoo!

Full of fresh Alphonso mangoes, this is one special preserve. Super limited edition, it won’t be around for long! 🥭

Click here to buy: https://www.singlevariety.co.uk/products/alphonso-mango-preserve-225g

21/04/2025

2021 was a crazy year for our Alphonso Mango Preserve! Our jam production was outsourced at the time and Ross and I went to our co-manufacturer to help prep the mangoes for the mango jam production. We sold out within one HOUR 🤯

Our co-manufacturer didn’t want to make any more for us (it’s really hard work!) and our brand new jam factory wasn’t quite ready. It was so frustrating because the mango season was so close to the end and I really wanted to make more for all our customers.

We’d just employed Chris, our factory manager, and discovered the amazing nearby. So, on Chris’s very first day we arranged to meet at to prep a whole pallet of mango together ready to take back to the brand new jam factory to jam. I’m not sure Chris knew what he was getting himself into joining us but this was certainly a full on first day! We can’t have scared him off too much as he’s still with us four years later and we are so lucky to have him.

Oh, and our labelling machine didn’t get delivered for another 3 months so I hand labelled every single jar of mango jam myself that year as Ross and Chris didn’t seem to be very good at it (maybe they just labelled badly on purpose?!). And all this while I was 6 months pregnant!

Four years later and I feel very lucky to have an amazing team now in our very own jam factory producing even more Alphonso Mango Preserve for you all this year. And a big thank you to Chris for not running off scared when we surprised him with a LOT of mangoes on his first day! 🙏🥭🙏

🥭 4 days until we launch 2025’s Alphonso Mango Preserve! 🥭

19/04/2025

We have a WINNER!!

This week we prepped 2,520 mangoes by hand. A lot of mangoes!! No-one guessed the exact number but the first closest guess was from Denise Horner. Congratulations! You’ve won a free jar of Alphonso Mango Preserve 🥭

We’re busy again next week with another two pallets of mangoes being delivered 🤯

And then the big day- Alphonso Mango Preserve launches on Friday at 10am. WOOHOOOOOOOO!

18/04/2025

8 days to go until we launch Alphonso Mango Preserve! 😋

But why do we even make this flavour jam? Let me take you back to my very first market, back in May 2016. This photo from the market is proof that we've had Alphonso Mango Preserve from the very beginning!

I was living in Tooting, South West London, an area that is full of Indian shops. And at this time of year they had boxes of mangoes piled up outside. Walking down the high street every day got me thinking... surely I could make jam out of mangoes?

Cooking the mangoes gently, with a small amount of sugar created the most intensely aromatic and flavoursome jam. It was so good! And it was the first jam that I sold out of that day.

Over the next few weeks I tried different varieties of mango but the Alphonso stood out by far as the best. And so, every year when mango season comes around we make as much as we possibly can for you all to enjoy.

I'd love to know, how many years have you been enjoying this jam? 🥭

15/04/2025

It’s mango time!! 10 days until launch day ⏰

This year is going to be our biggest year yet for our Alphonso Mango Preserve. The Alphonso season started a couple of weeks ago and we’ve been busy prepping as many mangoes as we possibly can. We hand-make this preserve from fresh Alphonso mangoes, it’s the only way to make it taste as good as it does.

So, with 10 days to go until launch I thought we could play a game: Guess how many mangoes we are prepping this week? Clue: it’s more than what’s on this pallet!

The first to guess correctly (or closest) get a free jar of Alphonso Mango Preserve! 🥭🥭🥭

14/04/2025

Did you catch us on Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen this weekend?

Here we are! 👀 🙌

We were thrilled to be featured as Prue Leith's Food Hero on her Cotswold Kitchen programme on ITV. Telling the story of our Gooseberry Preserve from farm t...

09/04/2025

The news is out! We’re featuring on Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen on Saturday 11.45am on ITV 🙌🙌🙌

Who’s watching?

04/04/2025

We are OBSESSED with raspberry jam & peanut butter and always looking for new ways to try the combo. And here's the best one yet.... Stuffed PB&J French Toast!

Take a look at the recipe on our website here:
https://www.singlevariety.co.uk/blogs/recipes/stuffed-peanut-butter-maravilla-raspberry-french-toast

31/01/2025

The day is finally here! We’ve been very busy jamming a LOT of rhubarb freshly delivered from Yorkshire and we’re ready to launch! I actually think this years batch is the best yet 😋

Harbinger Rhubarb Preserve available now online 🩷🩷🩷

https://www.singlevariety.co.uk/products/limited-edition-harbinger-rhubarb-preserve