Seville Bitter Orange Marmalade

Hi,

One of my favorite movies is 'Hope and Glory' about children raised during WW2 and the bombing of Britain. At one point, they find some German military foodstuffs, amongst the treasures was a large tin of jam. Afternoon tea is arranged around this can of jam, but they are quite suspicious it may be intentionally dropped to lure them to a death of poisoning. "They know we are MAD about JAM!" so the wife declines to try it in a fit of patriotism. Her husband grabs a spoon, takes a large dollop and drops it into his mouth. "Look, I'm not dead!" Everyone lunges at the jam.

What the English are especially mad about is Bitter Orange Marmalade Jam. A friend from England, a nephew of Arthur Treacher, is a graduate of the Cordon Bleu School in France. Every once in a great while he comes to visit. Rather than take him to dinner, I usually have dinner at our house. We eat, discuss some business, then get down to what is really important to us: food!

On his last visit, I ran down to my canning storage area and brought up a can of 'Ma Made Prepared Seville Oranges.' I've been buying this from Williams and Sonoma for some years to make marmalade. He took one look and said it was exactly what he and his wife use. A ringing endorsement to make me more confident to recommend a shortcut to marmalade bliss.

If you are considering making some, there is an offer on the rear of the can to collect a recipe pamplet from famous food writen Josecline Dimbleby plus a set of Homemade Marmalade adhesive jar labels. Please send a large self-addressed envelope to:

MaMade Leaflet and Label Offer
Chivers Hartley, Department M
The Orchard, Histon
Cambridge CB4 4 NR
United Kingdom