"Rusty Hinge 2" <rusty.hinge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> Oh look, girls and boys! A bumtious little swaggerer has come
fluttering
>> into our gang.
>
> <demeanour gait="mince" expression="simper">
>
Picture! Picture!!!
In the kilt, please. I need a good laugh.
..
>> Marmalade made with Seville oranges, I do not like cos it makes my
mouth
>> pucker up and I go sprwhrachhhhtch!
>
> Now I like a good sharp marmalade. My mother always used to buy about 20
> lbs of seville oranges and I would be pressed into stirring it as it
> gently seethed in the preserving pan.
>
> I didn't mind because every now and again I'd drop a teaspoon full into
> a tablespoon to check if it had gelled. Those test dollops were my
> bunce.
..
'Sharp' is one thing. 'Bitter,' is quite another. I don't mind a hairy
lemon
marmalade and love lime pickle, but bitter marmalade???
>
>> It makes buying marmalade on-line difficult. Latest choice, 'made with
>> fresh
>> 'oranges' no mention of Seville, and I though I had cracked it, and so
>> cheap, too! 8)))
> Wilkinson's?
>> ..
Good heavens, no. Tesco's own. I said it was cheap.
..Someone does a wonderfull fresh orange marmalade, but alas, I can't
remember who. It was on offer once in Safeways about fifteen years ago. I
knew the name but... Not Wilkinson, and I don;t think it was Cooper.. Oh,
no
use asking now., It's long gone.
>
> I'll look out for a brand which doesn't proclaim Seville or oil of
> biting oranges...
>
There are plenty of them but they all fail the 'sit on the knife' test,
and
are nearly all stuffed with pectin. The cheaper, common varieties are,
frankly, quite nasty orange jam with nothing to recommend them.
..
I often say expensive jam and marmalade makers should sell little sample
pots, like those little pots of paint, just enough paint to cover a square
foot... just enough stuff to cover a couple of slices of toast? Oh yes.
Honey, too.
Or a BIG sample case with a dollop of all the range. Oh yes... <drool at
the
thought of a decent plum jam. A jam with a small sour kick. and No, I
never
intend to make my own jams ever again. Chutney, yes. Jam etc. No, not
ever,
never, no more.>
..
Must go down now and make toast.
I'm off.
LdB
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