ENNISCORTHY MARKET
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Wilton Mills is the place and the name under which Fiona and Tim Phelan, and also Fiona’s father, Jim Whelan, produce and market their produce. Fiona and Tim both trained as chefs at Ballymaloe Cookery School some fifteen or so years ago and Fiona continued to work for a few years in Ballymaloe House. Tim worked in Clonmel and at La Riva Restaurant in Wexford but Fiona says “when we had children, Sarah and Gilly, now 8 and 10 years old, we decided to step back from restaurants” and consequently they now produce a range of delicious breads, cakes, jams and preserves, and deli products, which they sell at Enniscorthy and Wexford Markets. Fiona and Tim were involved in setting up the Market at Enniscorthy so are very proactive in it. Tim also does the catering for events at Horetown House in Co. Wexford. Breads include a very popular brown soda, as well as delicious Poppy Seed loaves, goat’s cheese and pepper bread, and red onion and olive bread which are around €3/€3.50. Cakes at €4 include coffee with walnut and date, lemon cake, banana bread and carrot cake. They also do things like lemon curd – very popular nowadays – onion marmalade, chilli jam, blackberry and apple jam, apple jelly, honey and mustard dressing, cucumber pickle, hummus and basil pesto, which range between €2.50 and €5.50p. They cover Enniscorthy and Wexford Markets and their produce is also available in Farm Shops such as Kate’s Farm Shop in Wexford, Green Berry Farm in Gorey, Fortune’s in Blackwater, Sugar & Spice Bunclody. Fiona and Tim can be contacted on Tel: (087) 227-3315.
THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT ON JUNE 20, 2010.