Caterpillar and Irn Bru in marmalade award entries

The World Marmalade Awards celebrates its 20th year in April

More than 3,000 jars of marmalade, made with ingredients such as caterpillars, capers and Irn Bru, have been submitted to the annual World Marmalade Awards.

Entries have been sent from as far away as Taiwan and Australia to the festival at Dalemain, near Penrith in Cumbria, along with samples from closer to home.

Among them is a jar from the British embassy in Jordan and a recipe from a woman in her 80s, which won a school prize in 1953.

Festival director Beatrice Hasell-McCosh said the marmalade community was "an orange thread that draws countless people together around the world".

She said jars had arrived decorated with witches' hats, crochet lids, cloaks and crowns.

The newest category for the 20th year of the awards is A Taste From Home, especially for refugees, expats and people living far from home.

There are also sections for merry marmalade - with alcohol - man made, prisons, octogenarians, children's and "interesting additions".

Jars arrived from around the world, some wearing witches' hats

Ingredients have been "more inventive" than ever, with red caterpillars, orchid, dragon fruit and Irn Bru listed on some of the jars, Ms Hasell-McCosh said.

Last year's winner, Stephen Snead, won with his Seville orange and lime with red chilli, and lime and crème de cacao marmalades.

Both have "sold well" at Fortnum & Mason and at Dalemain raising more than £6,000, which will be donated to Hospice at Home and his chosen charity Kyrebrooke Daycare Centre.

Entries have now closed and the winner of this year's competition will be announced on 26 April.