[Closed] Rubbish marmalade ...

Agreed.
Stick with Frank Cooper!!
(Oxford Marmalade with Ginger - great way to start the day)

or make your own,even better 😀

Yeah Frank Cooper is good. My favourite is Duchy Originals but far too expensive.

I also bought some Aldi Plum Conserve but damned if I can taste any plums!

Duerr's Manchester Marmalade FTW 🙂

Here's a top tip for buying Jam/Marmalade: look at the ingredients at the back and count them. If the number exceeds two, toss it into a skip with the rest of the muck mentioned above and continue your search.

Glad to be of service.

Trouble is orange trees don't grow very well in this country so the bees only have useless flowers to get the nectar from to make the marmalade, which is in turn useless.
Orange trees grow much better in Spain, hence the bees have much better orange flowers and so make better marmalade.

Bonne Maman Bitter Orange is lovely.

Vintage Oxford thick cut mmmmmm.

And can we also ban shredless marmalade

I think I see your mistake. I too like the Duchy one.

Waitrose ruby grapefruit has been a recent revelation.

Hmm.. not sure how bees go about making marmalade? Must take an awful lot of them to chop up those oranges! 😕 😆

I have a problem with bits - the solution has been Wilkin & Sons No Peel Marmalade. Proper marmalade but without the peel!

Hmm.. not sure how bees go about making marmalade? Must take an awful lot of them to chop up those oranges!

Tee hee, lady likes the taste of plums. S****, s**** 🙂

If they take nectar from the flowers of orange trees they make marmalade, same as if they take it from the flowers on strawberry or raspberry plants they make jam.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up 😀

I would love to make my own. Was a sad day when I found out my mother had got rid of grandpa's jam making kit.

grandpa's jam making kit.

Big pan
Jars
Spoon

That's it. 🙂

Once you make your own, you'll never go back. And its not difficult either, it just takes time and a bit of work. 🙂

Proper marmalade but without the peel!

Oxymoron. That's not possible. 😛

you need a knife,chopping board,scales,measuring jug,saucepan,saucers or a jam thermometer,muslin,string.

Surely you can find most of that in kitchen 😀 If not you've got a bit of time,Seville oranges normally aren't in shops till mid,late January.

Thermometer not needed. Just test a blob on a plate, once it forms a skin that wrinkles up as you push the blob with your finger you're there. 🙂 But I think you already know that....

I can personally vouch for Sir Nigel's Vintage marmalade from Fortums or make your own and fine tune your efforts to you taste.

I made 7 jars over Christmas and the recipe stated 1.8 kilo's of sugar. Slightly too sweet for my tastes but my culinary quest continues. It's the same with Venison stew. Differents ways of getting there and that's half the fun.

PP,agree,but is easier with thermometer.

Ours was never accurate.....

I like pink grapefruit marmalade from my local farm shop...it's what all toast deserves, much nomness.

PP - do you buy jars or just save up whatever you have around the house?

My sister started her own preserves company a couple of years ago.

Nom nom nom...

Just use whatever ones are about.Once friends,family get to know they'll start collecting jars for you,they do have to be encoraged with full ones in return.

PP,I got a confectioners/preserve thermometer for a birthday present that's accurate was about £20 I believe

PP - do you buy jars or just save up whatever you have around the house?

Buying them makes it expensive. We save them, we get others to save them for us, we ask for the jars back! 🙂

Andy, yes, ours wasn't cheap but we found the test more reliable than the temperature. Everyone is different I guess! 🙂

I only ended up with a thermometer as was being asked what I wanted for a birthday and always like something new and shiney 🙄 can't say it makes better marmalade than the previous saucers in the freezer/wrinkle test though.

Bunnyhop,always found it easier to make smaller batches 5-6lb.
Delia has good recipes for different marmalades.The canned seville oranges make ok marmalade but not as good as starting with the fruit.

Also as this is Singletrack try stirring in a teaspoon of whiskey in each jar,does give less of a set though.

I bought a cheap thermometer, something seemed wrong about it, and a batch failed to set. Testing it showed it to read 103 deg in boiling water. Then I bought a decent thermometer.

Oh, and only save the jars with standard screw tops, it saves a lot of swearing.

First batch of Pam "the jam" seville orange marmalade made today. 8 jars for the pantry. Next week will be the orange and ginger then maybe some whisky marmalade which should see us out to the end of the year!

If you don't like your marmalade extra-thick cut, we'll probably never be friends.

There's a great range at Waitrose by the way. Even own label stuff

Mrs bridges/ mckays does the best imo.

But then my auntie works there and supplies me with a selection of em , jams and chutneys every xmas. Takes me a year to get throuh em !

yup, make your own....even the tinned kit is superb once you mess with the recipe - I substitute 1/2 the orange peel for lemon.

dammit - now I need to go make toast!

Frank Coopers 3 Fruit is the one. Orange, Lemon and Grapefuit. I do like the sound of Ruby Grapefruit though, might have to seek some out.

No love for Rose's lemon and lime marmalade? It's the only one i can tolerate.

My local farm shops have a good range of preserves and chutneys. Not cheap though!

My Mum was the worlds best jam maker. Except....
one day she tried making marmalade in the pressure cooker which she'd never done before, anyway the weight came off the lid & high pressure marmalade went all over the ceiling. It was funny as owt!

MrsBouy makes her own Jams and Marmalade..

We still have 6 jars of Damson Jam from last year to eat yet, haven't started on this years batch at all.. 😛

I like Aldi's sour cherry jam

... you know, I feel better already for getting that out; it's been weighing on me for years.

(It's lovely on toast with peanut butter)

Yes, I agree rubbish marmalade should be banned. I too like the Fortnum’s Sir Nigel’s Vintage, and at £3.75 a jar, it’s expensive, but you get what you pay for and I would rather have that than 2 cheaper jars! Also, the Fortnum’s old English Hunt is to die for! Loads of shreds!

I've never really understood marmalade TBH. I don't eat anything sweet, so all jam,chocolate, biccies etc are a bit of a mystery to me.

But..... to my uneducated mind, isn't marmalade like making lovely creamy mashed potato, then deciding to pour all the old spud peelings back into it before serving?

you peel spuds before mashing them ? madness 😉

Someone up there ^^^ mentioned that the seville oranges come into the shops around end of January, so I'm guessing that's the best time to make homemade marmalade.

How long will it last?

I don't know about marmalade. Home-made stuff can go on for several years, it should be sterile and properly sealed. I'm eating 09 jam and I've just opened a jar of 06 chutney to check - it's ok. The acid in pickles can eat the lids, though.

Waitrose Thick Cut Orange Marmalade for the grand sum of 51p