Jacob and Sam James, two Herefordshire born and bred brothers, have recently turned into foodie entrepreneurs, having launched a unique bright orange sauce Granny Tigg's, created by their grandmother, who, at 16, won the title of Miss Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand).

But Anne Webb had always wanted to travel to England, and in 1954, six years after her triumph in the beauty contest, she arrived at Tilbury Docks. Shunning London, she found her way to Herefordshire, where she worked as an English teacher at a school in Bredenbury.

As a young mother, Anne introduced her family to a dressing that was full of memories from her childhood, 12,000 miles away. Unlike others that she believed lacked “zing”, Anne experimented with ingredients to create the now “extra-zingy”, vibrantly coloured, Granny Tigg’s dressing.

The dressing that had been a staple of their childhoods remained in their memories, but she kept the secret of its ingredients until Alexandra, her eldest child, called to ask her mother to reveal all. Because Alexandra James had opened a cafe at Broadfield Court and wanted something to accompany the wide selection of vegetables growing in her garden.

The sauce immediately became popular with customers, and it became apparent that a name was needed. Again Alexandra looked back to her childhood and remembered that the name for her mummy at home wasTigg.

After more than a decade of being sold in Alexandra’s café, the sauce remains unchanged but it is no longer limited to salads. Sam and Jacob began producing and selling their grandmother’s sauce and launched Granny Tigg's at the Ludlow Spring Festival in May. They exhibited at more than 20 food festivals around the country, finished runners up in a search for the next fine-food entrepreneur (run by the prestigious Cotswold Fayre distribution company), and their sauce is now stocked in over 25 stores.

Find out more about Sam, Jacob and Granny Tigg's on their website, grannytiggs.com