Posts Tagged ‘marmalade’

Marmalade is one of the best things in the world, but there are a few rules;

1/ you have to make it yourself,

2/ eat at least a jar a week.

Curiously enough, although Japan is my food heaven, I’ve never had nice marmalade in Japan, so I’m posting this on my Japanese blog as well. Hmm, might have to ask Mayo to translate… (have a look here)

Anyway, it’s marmalade making time for the sad old  stay-at-homes (that’s me), so I spent last night boiling up my second batch. And may I say it’s one of the best ever. I used my Mum’s recipe, easy and failsafe. Here it is with translation into plain English…

Recipe: 3lbs Seville oranges, 2 Lemons (plus anything else? Grapefruit, lime etc??) 6lbs Marmalade sugar. 1/ Scrub the fruit, put in a pan with 6 pints of water, boil for 2 hours, go watch some t.v., cool. 2/ Cut the fruit in half and remove the insides, pith and all, put insides into a muslin bag, tie it up. Cut up the peel thinly. Put peel and bag back into the liquid and boil for half an hour, more t.v. Cool. Remove the bag and squeeze it out as best you can. Chuck the rest away. 3/ Add the sugar, stir until dissolved, then boil very fast for about 15 mins or until the liquid begins to set when you drip it on a cold plate. Turn off the heat then leave to cool for 20 mins. Then pour into jam jars.

Boiling it up

The finished product!

It doesn’t get any better than that!

Alex

Hi there,

In the last couple of weeks we have sent out so much stock….. here’s a quick update for all of you who are heading out shopping this weekend….

In London Madeleine Hamilton, EcOne, Cerise and Indian Summer should be fully stocked.  Liberty will soon have our new ‘Tumbleleaf’ collection and a new selection of ‘Posy’ pieces in stock (in about a week I think) and Little 15 in the City have a fantastic range of pieces.

Around the UK, check out our new stockist in East Molesey - Hersey Jewellers. Marmalade in Hertford, The Hambledon in Winchester and Plum in Twickenham all have new stock. Also check out Whistles stores nationwide for brand new pieces….

Over in Germany, we have delivered to LaLa and Konk in Berlin, Julies in Munich and Heckmann in Darmstadt.

We’ve also sent lovely pieces to Vestibule in Zurich and Bon Bons in Tokyo.

Alex is off Down Under on Sunday, which we’re all very jealous of! They’ll be lots of excitement in the form of Trunk Shows and Press launches (watch this space!) so ahead of his arrival we have sent deliveries out to: Husk, Morrsion, Wax Jambu, and new stockist Stem.

In case anyone wondered where we had our cocktails the other week, here’s a little clue…..

What to have....?!

And here’s the full gang of us girls…..Alex decided to leave us to it!

Suzy A, Emma, Freda, Rakhi & Yoko.

Mayo, Susie, Ulrikke & April.

Have a great weekend!   Emma x