Hazel Sparkes from Pershore Country Market
Worcestershire Country Market Society
“I love baking. I like to put on the radio, send everyone out and bake. In fact I even make
sure that I don’t work on a Friday just so I can bake! My favourites are making preserves
and baking cakes. I have two diabetics in my family and a daughter who doesn’t eat cake, so
I was always looking for reasons to make them. A friend suggested I join Country Markets
to sell my cakes. I’ve now been a member for three years and simply love it. I’ve recently
taken on being a Market Manager too.
One of my specialities is Butterfly Cakes. I sell about seventeen or eighteen boxes of six on a
Saturday morning at Pershore Country Market and I’m selling my cakes into a local shop now
as well, which is so exciting! A little while ago, a lady bought a large number of them at the
Farmers’ Market; when asked if she was having a party, she explained that they weren’t for
eating, she was going to take pictures of them to transfer onto a fabric! Shirley and Monica
thought it was a real hoot.
The people at Pershore Country Market are very nice and were very kind when I started,
helping me with all the information I needed to begin selling. Country Markets food is lovely,
you just can’t beat homemade food. It’s so fresh, made properly by a real person not by a
machine and you know exactly where it’s come from. You can’t say that about a lot of other
foods can you?”