Market manager Kardien Gerbrands talks about Swindon farmers' markets

PEOPLE just can’t stop talking about Pippin Doughnuts and it’s easy to see why; this is a top quality product and, personally, I would hike across town on a wet windy day for one.

A Pippin Doughnut is a traditionally fried (not baked!) doughnut made from Shipton Mill and Wessex Mill flours which are risen overnight and made fresh every morning before the market.

However, excellent though the dough itself is (try and say that out loud!), it is the fillings that truly make them the beauteous things of wonder they are.

Regulars will know that Court Farm are at the market during the summer months with their fantastic soft fruits and it is this fruit that has been used to make the high fruit “compote” that goes into the seasonally changing fruit fillings.

Currently, Apple and Cider, Strawberries and Custard and Mixed Berry are on the menu plus a surprise one every week. Add to this the mouth-wateringly good Custard (made fresh in the traditional way with eggs and Jess’ Ladies organic milk), the Lemon Curd, the Rich Chocolate Ganache plus the constantly changing flavoured ring doughnuts and the unfilled but supreme Cinnamon and Brown Sugar doughnuts and I don’t see how anyone reading this can possibly stay away.

Single doughnuts and boxes of mixed doughnuts available on the stall. Warning, they are coated in a variety of sugars! Napkin essential! Please form an orderly queue from 10 am this Sunday at the farmers’ market at the Designer Outlet and don’t forget your shopping bag so you can get your weekly shop fresh and local too.

Markets

  • Bradford on Avon, third Thursday, 9am to 1pm at Westbury Gardens, BA15 1DE.
  •  Bradford on Avon, last Sunday, 10.30am to 2.30pm at Lamb Yard, BA15 1FG.
  •  Calne, second Saturday, 9am to 1pm, near the library, SN11 0JU.
  •  Corsham, third Saturday, 9am to 1pm, High Street SN13 0HB.
  •  Devizes, first Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Market Place l Malmesbury, second and fourth Saturdays, 9am to 1pm, Market Cross 
  •  Royal Wootton Bassett, fourth Saturday, 9am to 1pm, High Street.
  •  Salisbury, weekly on Wednesdays, 9am to 2pm, Poultry Cross.
  •  Swindon Farmers’ Market, every Sunday, 10am to 4pm, Swindon Designer Outlet, Kemble Drive, SN2 2DY.
  •   Trowbridge, second and fourth Friday, 9am to 1pm, Fore Street, BA14 8HX.
  •  Wanborough, third Saturday, 9am to midday, Wanborough Village Hall.
  •  Warminster, first and third Fridays, 9am to 1pm, central car park, BA 12 9BT