19th January 2012

Marmalade takes a long time to make - but smells amazing, and there's no waiting period before you can eat it! (which makes me happy, I like eating and hate waiting). I managed to get hold of some Seville oranges from my local greengrocer, along with a debate about imperial and metric weights. Me - 'Can I have 450g please?' Him - 'Oh you mean a pound' Me - 'Ok, can I have a pound please?' Him-  'Ah, well that would be 454g' (I was losing the will to obtain fruit at this point) Him - 'Well these weigh 500g' Me - 'That will do!' 

I 'bottled it' and used some preserving sugar (to guarantee a good set - I wasn't going to boil orange peel for 2 hours and risk ending up with a runny marmalade!).  The end result is a three jars of yummy strong marmalade and a kitchen that still has a variety of sticky spots that appear to be resistant to the strongest cleaners available to woman-kind and a good dollop of elbow grease.....