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Marmalade: A British Obsession (longreads.com)
1 point by axiomdata316 on Aug 5, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The pith is evil. Oily skin and flesh yes, pips for gelling, but the pith is a nono. Wrong kind of bitter.

Cumquats make my lips burn, something complex in their oils. Candied peel is great, and we hunt pannetone every Christmas for the one which still uses citron peel (oddly an Etrog, but definitely not a Jewish treat) which is increasingly optional. Orange peel doesn't work as well.

I have two Keillors stoneware jars to keep pens in. We used to make jam in them. The China has a ridge below the top for string to tie off a cooking paper lid.

The Oxford brown is overdone. Lime marmelade is too sugary-sweet. Quince jelly and jam is a delight, also odd how it named marmelade but has no quality in common beyond the name and the diabetic coma quantity of sugar.

Lady Marmalade...




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