Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
Now you have me thinking of some marmalade on a chicken sandwich! Why not?
"My name is Mad Cook And I am a marmalade-aholic".I make orange marmalade with a tinned seville orange. It is available on Amazon, product is Hartley's Ma Made Thin Cut Seville Oranges, is a product of Spain. It is very easy to make/can.
But have you tried a chicken, apricot jam and mayonnaise sandwich? Mmm!Now you have me thinking of some marmalade on a chicken sandwich! Why not?
In its early days orange marmalade was used as a cure/treatment for seasickness and there is a (probably apocryphal) story that it got it's name from "Marie malade" after Mary Queen of Scots who apparently suffered from seasickness when crossing from France to Scotland to be married.I've always loved marmalade, especially on warm toast with melted butter for breakfast. But, I know when I'm sick because the only thing I want to eat is marmalade sandwiches!
Yes, ideal for marmalade but not for eating as raw fruit.The Seville oranges that I'm familiar with are sour oranges. They are loaded with seeds and only suitable for juicing. They make the best mojo criollo and marinade for Cuban style pork.
Cheat's orange ice cream = marmalade stirred into slightly softened good quality vanilla ice cream and put back in freezer for and hour or so.Smucker's in Florida, that ain't right!
It's also good on a scoop of ice cold cottage or ricotta cheese.
"My name is Mad Cook And I am a marmalade-aholic".
I share your guilty secret, Beth. I make gallons of marmalade for the family and use Ma-made. It saves s-o-o-o much time. I hate all that peeling and chopping and scraping off of the white pith and tying up the pips and the "veins" in muslin and boiling the peel for ever. Let Hartleys do it for you. And you don't have to fuss about getting a set as the tins have pectin added. Just add sugar and water and boil up.
I do have a bone to pick with Hartleys though. They used to do lemon Ma-made too but discontinued it a few years back. I was warned by an assistant in Morrison's supermarket and I bought up the whole stock. I'm just used the last of my store but have found a different brand in Lakeland.
Incidentally if you follow the instructions I'm sure you don't need to can it as well as the rest of the rigmarole.....Why DO you all can jams and marmalades in America? Do they do it in Canada? Is it because you tend to have hotter summers in the States than we do?
But have you tried a chicken, apricot jam and mayonnaise sandwich? Mmm!
Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly. I wasn't questioning the whole preserving thing. I was querying the canning of jams & marmalade. Here we prepare the fruit and sugar in the usual way, then boil to a set, pour the hot jam into sterilised jars. End of story but I gather you follow this up with the caning procedure and wondered why. Our jams, etc., keep well without any deterioration in quality without the final processing but we have a temperate climate. I know that in many areas of the USA the summers are hotter and more humid and wondered if that was the issue.I think it is because we have a bountiful product in the summer. And when it comes harvest time, we hate waste with a passion. One tree of lemons can produce enough product in one season to last a lifetime almost. My girlfriend in California who has a Myer Lemon tree in her front yard does not can. So she invites any and all who are even just passing by to help themselves when the tree is loaded with fruit. Everyday her husband has to go out to pick up the fallen fruit and toss it out to keep the hornets away.
When we plant in the spring, we don't just plant a few seeds, we plant a couple of packages. Way more than we can possibly eat during the harvest. So we can. We don't even want to waste those seeds. We do have three areas that have perfect year round weather for growing. Texas, Florida and California.
I've made kumquat marmalade and grapefruit marmalade. Any citrus can be marmaladed (is that a word?)
I was getting Orange marmalade from an import shop. Made in Spain with seville oranges and brandy...OMG!!!! It was the best stuff ever. The shop closed, darn it!
Yes, you can make lemon marmalade. Here you are.Love it ! Love basting baked chicken, ham etc but the best is on a hot fresh out of the oven biscuit.
I have always been going to try making it but never have. always make strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, blackberry and apricot jams
Is there a lemon marmalade. I could think of a lot of uses for that.
hmm its only lil after 7am and still got time to make a batch of biscuit for breakfast before work.
Hi Princess,
Find a recipe and I will make you some.
I have a Seville Orange Tree in my back yard.
Josie