Georgina Stott set up Gee’s Meringues at the beginning of August and has surprised even herself with how popular the venture is proving. Based in Cark, the 19-year-old is already supplying to several farm shops and gift shops. Gee’s Meringues was also a roaring success at this summer’s Cartmel and Kirkby Lonsdale Shows, with her meringue nests, filled with Lakeland whipped cream and fresh fruit, going down a storm. She said: “I’ve always been into baking and I’ve just graduated from college in Kendal in June. “I was doing a business course and I was thinking I wanted to start doing something for myself and not work for somebody else. “I was making meringues one day and I thought I could actually sell these, so the ball has rolled from there.” Miss Stott offers a range of shapes and sizes and a variety of flavours, including raspberry, chocolate, cinnamon and, her personal favourite, rosewater and pistachio. She packages them with a pretty ribbon to provide a finishing touch which makes them ideal for gifts – and makes them all with local free range eggs and British sugar. But despite her large range, Miss Stott is always looking for new and unique flavours and shapes to try – with Halloween and Christmas designs in the pipeline. She is also hoping to set up a website which would enable her to sell across the country, but hopes that Cartmel, which is renowned for its food, can only help her reputation grow. She said: “Obviously Cartmel is known for its sticky toffee pudding and I have actually got a sticky toffee pudding meringue, so hopefully that all ties in well for me. People come to Cartmel for the food, don’t they? “For the first few years I just want to grow it as well as I can and then if it carries on and does well, then hopefully expand and cater for what I can.”
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:37:47 +0000