Marmalade making

Regular readers of this blog will know that I can be a little obsessive on the jam & chutney making front but the one I'm forbidden to make is marmalade. This is Andrew's domain and woe betide anyone who suggests otherwise. I'm not a great marmalade lover, I think it's the shop bought ones that put me off but I do like Andrew's. Actually it's a family recipe which apparently I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.....have a look at Kalba's (interestingly it's her partner who makes marmalade, who'd have thought it was such a manly thing?) for a good recipe.

By mid-December Andrew starts to get twitchy as supplies are getting low, it doesn't appear on the table when we have guests to stay and he starts haunting the local fruit & vegetable shops until the first Seville oranges arrive. So although the recipe stays a secret I thought the photographs add a spot of colour in this season of grey.

Sevilles - a burst of sunshine

Simmering

Flesh scooping (I think)

Pip boiling

We like a chunky zest

First batch

The second batch has now been made, my stock of jars is low but he's still eyeing up the Sevilles in the shop. Obsessed.