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Manta Ray a l'Anglaise · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject: Seville Oranges

I saw the first Sevilles in my local town the other day, will be getting some this coming week, I make a lot of marmalade and sell quite a bit of it. My general tip for marmalade making is to reduce by 1lb the amount of sugar in the recipe for each batch. It doesn't noticeably alter the sweetness of the resulting marmalade, nor does it alter it's keeping properties, what it does do is increase the zing/wow factor in the flavour and makes it far superior to even top quatily bought.

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Nannyp · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject:

That's a good tip Ray ...I saw someone complaining on Total France forum the other day, that there were no Seville's in the shops here in her part of France. Since I don't make marmalade (Mark would eat it you see

) I haven't been looking.
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Sylvia · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:18 am Post subject:

No, I haven't been able to find any Seville Oranges here in France either so was thinking about maknig some clementine marmalade. Has anybody tried it, is it any good?
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Manta Ray a l'Anglaise · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:36 pm Post subject:

Clementine Marmalade will be fine - it won't have that same zingy wow of sevilles but hey ho if you can't get them . . . . just watch and reduce the sugar content. The recpe I have or clementine has grapefruit and lemon in it too.
What about Lemon and Lime, you'll be able to get those.

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ps - maybe they are available, but not called sevilles. . . . how about bitter oranges?

pps - also known as bigarade
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Sylvia · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:49 am Post subject:

Thanks Itsy for the reply, I have looked for the past 3 seasons to no avail. they seem to get them in the shops and markets much further south than us (5-6 hour round trip).

OH doesn't like it too tart but I was thinking of replacing a couple of the clementines with lemons, do you think that would work OK?
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Manta Ray a l'Anglaise · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:09 pm Post subject: