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Marmalade

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  • Started 13 years ago by Christine Berrett
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  1. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Horrible grey, wet, drizzly day today, so I'm making some marmalade to bring the sunshine back into my life!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. Brigitte Gant
    Member

    Yes, it certainly is dull and grey outside. I am going to 'amuse' myself with the ironing. DH and I had a weekend in Lincoln and now it's back to the boring housework.
    However, it's off the the Tuesday Stitch later on and then see my darling little grandsons.

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  3. brenda midgley
    Member

    Oooh - long time since I made marmalade. I also used to pick the little crab apples off the little tree in the front garden and go down one of the back lanes to pick blackberries and make jelly from those. Himself loved it of coure - men enjoy this sort of thing much more than all these fancy haute cuisine stuff you get in restaurants, I had to keep making steamed suety puddings to drizzle the warm jelly over and then custard over that. Luvly! What memories you've evoked Mrs. Berrett - perhaps I'll think about it again roundabout August time when the fruits are right. Thank you for that.

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  4. Barbara Stone
    Member

    If you don't like cutting up the fruit etc., I think a good alternative is to buy the stuff in the Lakeland catalogue, and cook it yourself and bung it in jars. Lazy way of doing it I know, but some of us don't have a lot of time. Get out the violins!!

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  5. Auntie Beryl
    Member

    We have made marmalade from tins for years. It is certainly a lot nicer than the bought stuff. You can also make it the thickness you like . We have Gibralter marmalade .... Rock of ..... It never slips offmy toast !

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  6. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Hello Auntie Beryl.

    The marmalade I made today looks ready good - it's a beautiful golden colour, with the peel well distributed in the jars. Hope it tastes as good as it looks :o)
    And it was no trouble to make, really. The trickiest part of the whole operation was judging when it had reached "setting point".

    Thing is, I still have plenty of seville oranges left, so will be hunting out some more recipes - Whisky Marmalade, perhaps??? Luckily I have plenty of jam jars available...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. Andrea Thompson
    Moderator

    ummm do'ya know I think I should have bought the book I saw in the library last night, and sent it to Christine. (The library were selling off old books)
    I did suggest that Auntie Beryl might have liked it ;-)
    I wish I had bought it now.
    I'll let Auntie B tell you what it was called.
    hehe

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  8. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Ooooo, now I'm really intrigued!

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  9. Auntie Beryl
    Member

    Really ,Andrea , how do you exspect me to remember the title of a book after anights sleep ! I can hardly remember my own name . Do you want me to get it for you ? I will probably know it when I see it .On second thoughts perhaps you should just remind me of the title !

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  10. Andrea Thompson
    Moderator

    Auntie Beryl you have a very good memory!
    The book was called "Cooking with Booze"
    If Christine would like it then I'm sure we could get it to her :-)

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  11. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    LOL, how well you know me!

    I have a fridge magnet which says:

    "I love to cook with wine.
    Sometimes I even put it in the food"

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  12. Auntie Beryl
    Member

    Our very words ! ! This friendship gets deeper by the minute !

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  13. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Is there any other type of cooking except with Booze? (Hic)

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  14. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Not in this house, there ain't.......

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  15. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Actually, since my husband took over the cooking (well he's got nothing much else to do), and he doesn't cook with booze (or not very much anyway). Might have to take back the cooking!!! (I cannot believe I just offered to do that!) This insanity will soon pass I hope.

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  16. Brigitte Gant
    Member

    Would I recognize a sane Barbara?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. Helen Mcrobbie
    Member

    I think we are all a little insane, I know I am, my little gey cells are having a hard time of it at the moment to much work and stress,roll on April for a stress free week of fun and laughter with the girls

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  18. Brigitte Gant
    Member

    Yes, Helen, one does not have to be mad to fit in with our crowd, but it sure helps.

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  19. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Nobody would recognize a sane Barbara. I will need a week of relaxation along with all my other mad friends to get over the panto - roll on next Monday when it will all be over.

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  20. Ruth Harrison
    Member

    I didn't think there was such thing as a sane Barbara? Do you have that ever so rare thing called a sanity certificate to prove you are sane? If so where can I get one? I have not been sane for years, am permanantly round the bend and its great.

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