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A tiny family-run pudding business in South Australia has gone from a handful of homemade Christmas desserts to an award-winning operation shipping its six-generation recipe around the world, and it’s still being made by hand in an off-grid kitchen.
For Tracy Wade of Stoney Acre Produce, the past year has been a little surreal.
After Glam Adelaide featured the Southern Flinders business last Christmas, its puddings sold out in just 36 hours, and even forcing the Barossa Farmers Market to miss out on having Tracy’s famous puddings at its stalls.
“We were done for the year. That was pretty quick,” said Tracy.
This year, the business is back with another season of puddings, two more national accolades and customers now ordering from seven countries around the world.
Stoney Acre Produce took first place in the Registered Kitchen Plum Pudding section of the Great Vanilla Slice Competition, while it also placed second at the Sydney Fine Food Show, with both the winner and Stoney Acre receiving a bronze medal.
For Tracy, the awards are another special milestone for a recipe that has been passed down through her family for generations.
“We’re pretty chuffed with that,” she said.
The recognition follows a gold medal at last year’s Sydney Fine Food Show, where judges described the pudding as “the perfect example of a Christmas pudding.”
But perhaps the biggest surprise has been just how far the puddings have travelled. Most orders still come from customers across Australia, but Stoney Acre puddings have now made their way to New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the UK and America, among other destinations.
The international expansion started in an unexpectedly funny way. While Tracy was processing orders after last year’s sell-out, she noticed one had apparently been placed for collection in Italy.
“I said to my friend ‘I wonder if it’s a tax write-off if we deliver that. Do you feel like a trip on a plane?'” she said.
It turned out the customer’s mum was travelling from Victoria to Italy for Christmas and was taking the pudding with her. Now, Tracy says the puddings are bumping around everywhere, with customers in every Australian state and beyond.
Despite the growing demand, Stoney Acre remains resolutely small-scale. Everything is still made by hand on Tracy’s farm, where the family produces its own power and water, grows vegetables and keeps much of its food production close to home.
“It’s all about the tradition,” shared Tracy. “It’s still all about keeping it small, keeping it local, keeping the food miles down, respecting the environment, friendly packaging, all of those sorts of things.”
And the family tradition has now officially reached another generation. Tracy recently helped her niece make her first batch of Christmas puddings, taking the family recipe into its sixth generation.
“This weekend, my son and my daughter and her partner and a couple of friends, we were just literally having a mountain in the kitchen, just wrapping and labelling puddings,” she said. “The whole family will get together, and we’re literally just around the kitchen table, having cups of tea, laughing and joking, and labelling Christmas puddings.”
For Tracy, that is what makes the business so special.
“I just love the tradition of it all,” she said. “It’s sort of past and present and all those things all rolled into one.”
This year, Stoney Acre is already taking pre-orders, with the official website opening for orders in October.
The puddings will also be available through a selection of local retailers, Adelaide butchers and Central Market businesses, while Tracy plans to return to the Barossa Farmers Market throughout November and December, while stock lasts.
And if last year is anything to go by, customers may want to get in early. particularly if they have their eye on the quandong pudding, which Tracy says is proving to be the hot commodity.
“We opened our pre-orders and we’re already being slammed with orders,” she said.
So if you missed out on one of Stoney Acre’s puddings last year, Christmas 2026 might be your chance, but waiting until the last minute probably isn’t worth the risk.
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