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From Sarah Randell, judge at The Marmalade Festival and Food Director, Sainsbury’s Magazine This is the most delicious winter recipe from one of my favourite local eateries in London – The Rookery in Clapham. It perks up any grey February day. The team at The Rookery made a Margaret Costa marmalade recipe this year from her [...]
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Marmalade Recipe
A simple recipe for delicious home made Marmalade. Ingredients 9 fresh Seville oranges 3 – 4 grapefruit 3 Lemons 6 pints of water. Granulated sugar Method Put fruit chopped in half in 4 pints of water fruit must be covered. Simmer until soft about 1½ hours Chop up fruit roughly using a knife and fork [...]
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Jane’s Top 10 Tips for Entrants to The World’s Original Marmalade Awards 2012
1) DO IT NOW The best Seville oranges are in the shops now. Don’t waste the opportunity to get the best of the batch: strike now- buy your Sevilles early- you haven’t got much time. 2) CLEAN EQUIPMENT If you haven’t used your equipment since last year it is important to wash it thoroughly before [...]
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Marmalade Tarts
Marmalade Tarts Makes 12 Roll out 300g shortcrust pastry on a lightly floured board to 3mm thick and use an 8-9cm cutter to stamp out 12 rounds, re-rolling the pastry as necessary. Use these to line a 12-hole bun tin. Chill for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200C, fan 180C, gas 6. Add 1 [...]
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A quick and easy Marmalade Cake
A quick and easy Marmalade Cake Serves 8 -ish 200g soft butter, in pieces 225g caster sugar 4 large eggs 150g self raising flour 1 rounded tsp baking powder 100g ground almonds for the drizzle 75g icing sugar 100mls orange juice (freshly squeezed) grated zest of 2 oranges 4 tbsp of your favourite marmalade Pre-heat [...]
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The 2012 Homemade marmalade categories
HOMEMADE MARMALADE AWARDS For home cooks the 2012 categories are: Seville Orange Marmalade Its A Family Affair (proceeds to Action Medical Research and sponsored by Paddington Bear), where whole families, children with grandparents, mothers-in-laws, sons-in-laws…any family combination or groups of children with an adult (eg at school) can enter. Three categories a) Groups of adults [...]
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It’s a sticky wicket as Aussies challenge Poms at marmalade making
Here at the World Marmalade Awards in Cumbria, UK, where each year the world’s best marmalade makers battle it out for the title of World Marmalade Champion, the Aussie flag might be flying on the 13th February. A team of eleven marmalade makers from a town near Ballarat, called the “Buninyong Eleven”, have slapped down [...]
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Could your marmalade star in London’s West End?
Ever tasted a jar of marmalade from a shop and thought, “well, it’s ok but honestly mine is better?” Then your chance for marmalade stardom has arrived. London’s Fortnum and Mason, for three centuries suppliers of the world’s best food and still at the top of their business, are offering to stock the “Best In [...]
Marmalade making tips: what to aim for
Use these notes as a guide, as the specific flavours and textures of marmalade will vary according to the fruit, the amount of natural pectin and sugar, and your own taste. We spoke with Pam Corbin, judge and founder of Thursday Cottage marmalade and author of the River Cottage Marmalade book, and Jonathan Miller, Sweet [...]
Pam Corbin’s Seville Orange Marmalade
What better way to embrace the short, cold days of January than to spend a few steamy hours in the kitchen creating a little kitchen alchemy and turning a panful of oranges into pots of golden marmalade to last the year ahead. The Seville orange, celebrated for its bitter tones and pectin rich flesh makes [...]
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