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Anyone seen any Seville Oranges yet? Can't wait to start brewing marmalade.

I've not seen any, but I came across some here  http://www.abelandcole.co.uk/seville-oranges-1kg so the season must be starting 

I've been given some Bergamot oranges which I'm going to use for a mixed fruit marmalade, probably with oranges and lemons. I've only made it once before, it's now my favourite!

Weve only ever made Plum, Gooseberry,and Strawberry Jam from fruits from our Plot,but as were moving soon id like to enjoy some kitchen time making something different.....hense the Seville question.

Id be wanting to make some jelly for mum "without" orange peel in and some Marmalade WITH for Jude and I so any straight forward
recipes would be appreciated......and which month you source the oranges .

cheers

Gazza

I think late January/early February is when they can usually be found in greengrocery stores here. I'm not sure if the supermarkets offer them. When I lived in Spain I used to pick them straight from the trees which surrounded an orange plantation belonging to a friend. The bitter oranges were supposed to discourage passersby from getting at the sweet orange harvest which was late December through February in the area I was living. I believe it is a bit earlier further south nearer Valencia.

It took me a while to be able to enjoy an orange that had hundreds of delivery miles behind it! I don't make marmalade any more. I have enough fruit in my own garden for jam making these days.

Tricia

Here's a recipe I've used for years

SEVILLE ORANGE MARMALADE

1.5kg seville oranges
2.75 litres water
juice of 2 lemons
3kg sugar

1. Scrub the fruit, cut in half and squeeze out the juice. Tie pips in a bit of muslin
2. Slice the peel thinly or thickly if you prefer chunky marmalade
3. Place in preserving pan with the juice, muslin bag and water. Simmer gently util peel is soft and contents reduced about one third. Will take about 2 hours.
4. Remove from heat, squeeze muslin bag to extract juice and remove bag
5. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Bring to the boil and boil rapidly until setting point is reached
6. Remove any scum and cool slightly before putting into warmed jars.


Enjoy

Gazza, Normally available mid jan- mid Feb, last year I managed to get the first ones on Jan 5, so keep your eyes open.

Quote from: Jayb on December 29, 2013, 10:01:51


I've been given some Bergamot oranges which I'm going to use for a mixed fruit marmalade, probably with oranges and lemons. I've only made it once before, it's now my favourite!

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=bergamot

interesting, I have never come across them!
Does anyone feel that Seville oranges have changed over the years, I remember them as knobbly and misshapen and much more  bitter than now. I feel sure they have had some hybridisation to make them more uniform!

We don't get Seville oranges here except for one or two days in the big supermarkets with local populations of Brits so Waterloo and Overijse which are not my haunts.  I cheat and use tins of Hartley's prepared Seville oranges which are available year round so I stock up on my annual visit to the UK.  They do thin cut, thick cut and lemon too and you can make it Oxford marmalade by using brown sugar instead of white.

I remember the annual marmalade making fest as a child and yes they were rather knobbly.   We then went over to the tinned ones, much less efforts and by the time you add lemons or grapefruit and the odd lime no one could tell the difference.

I though they came from the decorative trees in Seville, so rather gone off the idea of marmalade in case it was full of petrol fumes.   When I was a child there were not that many cars.

I appreciate the feedback and will look out jan to feb....

cheers

Gazza

Only time I made marmelade here in France I used "Maltese" oranges which were smaller than the navel types. I seem to recall that they were a later type.Makes me feel like having another go at it!

Found the first ones today at 79p/lb.
Also got the last 4kg net of pickling onions, still in raelly good condition.
Busy weekend ahead!!

3kg of Seville & Blueberry Marmalade made this afternoon. Let the marathon begin!!

Last autumn on a visit to the Jewellery Qtr in Birmingham we bought a jar of curry marmalade from a cafe called Vee's I think! It was really lovely certainly worth a try.

Can you make it with grapefruit?

Hi Poppy mole,

Yes you can make marmalade with grapefruit.
Look at varieties sold in supermarkets for other variations - lime & lemon, grapefruit, even 3 fruits
Happy marmalade-making !!

Debs 

Came home to the lovely smell of marmalade on the stove
Thanks for the reminder as Mr PKL went to the market yesterday and there they were!