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 - anyone?? = Tim

Our box scheme (riverford) has just put their marmalade pack back on their list  ;D

Ive made one batch of marmalade last week which turned out really well so I have just bought another lot of sevilles from our local greengrocer and shall be making another 7lb tonight.....how sad to be making marmalade on a friday evening!!!!!!

Love Riverford, but most of  their boxes double up on our own produce. Shame.

Oh! Tonight - Tesco have finally got them in. Our local grocers threw them all out last year because no one wanted them, & said they would not be having them again!!

If you want a pressure cooker marmalade, check out mamta gupta's site.  Says he modestly!! = Tim

ahh well Tim before this time next year I hope to have cancelled them :)

I love marmalade, its such a temptation for my daughter though that can't hace oranges because of her eczema that I feel guilty eating it.

You can order just the oranges from Riverford I'm sure, without a whole box. www.riverford.co.uk Marmalade Kit £3.20 gets you £1.5kg oranges and 2 lemons.  I have no idea if this is expensive or not!

Thanks! = Tim

got some a few weeks back (maybe even a month) from my lovely farm shop.

Yup - they're here.  There's one stall in Leeds market that always has them, and they were there today.  We only left the nasty ones :) :) :)

Tomorrow's a marmalade day!

All best - Gavin

XXXX Rang Tesco 2 days ago - yes, they were in stock - today, went to get them - we had to bin them because no one was buying them!!!

WHAT is happening to our world? = Tim

oh no!  And I watched the lovely Delia making marmelade last night on TV!

Sainsburys had what they called 'marmalade oranges' a few weeks back - I picked them up by mistake thinking they said manderin oranges.....sure that optician told fibs when he said I had 20/20 vision!  Don't know if they are still doing them as I generally avoid sainsburys.

That's funny - in the Co-op today, I said that 'these Mandarins look like Sevilles'. Oh no he said.

Oh well - we still have 4lb in the freezer from last year. BUT - they will need different treatment.

So - even Waitrose let me down. So out come last year's, but I've got to figure how much extra pectin they will need - in what form. Or just another lemon for the acid??

Didn't realise the pectin levels reduced after freezing.  This could answer my question late last year when I made my second batch of blackcurrant jelly.  The fresh fruit jelly set like rubber, the second batch from frozen currents produced a soft floppy, but equally scrummy, jelly.

Tim,

This may not interest you, but,  most supermarkets sell tinned seville

oranges ready to make into marmalade, they are priced approx £1.50 per

tin and are called MAMADE. It makes delish marmalade.   :P

I got into making my own marmalade after buying sugary sweet

supermarket marmalade, which was severely lacking in fruit content

  YUK!!

I am sure I have some lemon variety in a cupboard- shall go and check

and return to confirm  ;D

Debs

YES! Have a tim of the prepared lemons variety.

Ingredients are: 67.5% prepared spanish lemons, water,citric acid, pectin.

It has no artificial colours, preservatives or additives.

The tin (850g) makes 6lb of marmalade.

I usually buy mine at Kwiksave but have seen it at larger

supermarkets, and can highly recommend the seville oranges, as

I have never yet made the lemon variety.

If you can't get fresh sevilles it is next best thing and much better

than supermarket stuff :-X

Happy marmalade making...

Debs

THATS IT !!

All this talk about marmalade has got my tastebuds screaming....

Am now off downstairs to make the lemon variety which I shall be

spreading on thick sliced granary bread for breakfast tomorrow,

accompanied of course with a cup of tea.

Simple pleasures ;D

Debs

Emma - see better picture. Pectin -  much argy on this, so looked it up & found even more!!
But I'm going to add something - not sure what. I see now that it says cook from frozen - oh, dear!!

Debs - yes, a face saver, & your kind efforts will not, I'm sure, have been wasted - there must be others in the same position.

But - I seem to recall, from when my m-in-law used to use it, that it was thinly sliced? And we like it chunky. So we'll have a crack at the snowballs & report back!

In passing, we use a pressure cooker - great time saver.

why seville oranges? you can make equally if not more yummy marmalade using tangerines, and i am sure other citrus fruit.

i have a book at home called 'sensational preserves,' and boy are they!
there are several pages of marmalades of various kinds in there.....

just a thought
svea

RESULT.

The lemon variety (thinly sliced Tim) is tangy and absolutely delicious.

Tim - The seville oranges are prepared 'thick cut'.

If you google 'mamade' you will see a picture of the tin.

I am fussy about eating a good marmalade and can give it thumbs up!

Debs

Svea - yes - there are all sorts - and jams too - but I'm stuck on the fresh, sharp fruitiness of Sevilles. Don't eat much of it these days but, when I do, it has to be what it has always been for 60 or 70 years!

Debs - that's interesting. Maybe we should get a tin or two in, in case I'm so slothful next year.