26 February 2012

Missed the boat...

...the one carrying Seville oranges, that is. Somehow it's already the end of February and there isn't a Seville orange to be had. This year my marmalade will have to be made from something different. Here are some of the starting ingredients:


I'm going to use the same method as the Seville orange marmalade I've been making since 2009, but this time there are regular oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit in the mix. They're simmering away on the stove right now in the first stage of the process, filling the house with the smell of citrus. I'll let you know how it turns out...

1 comment:

Kate Ritchie said...

My granny had a use for every thing. In fact the bin men never called as she never threw anything away. Her use for orange and lemon peel was to dry it out and use it as a firelighter several weeks later. Her window ledges were always covered with peel, her staircase covered with boxes full of newspapers and she made use of the lables around tins to write letters to her grandchildren on!