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Manta Ray a l'Anglaise
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Seville OrangesI 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.
Itsyray
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Nannyp
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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
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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
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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.
Itsyray
ps - maybe they are available, but not called sevilles. . . . how about bitter oranges?
pps - also known as bigarade
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Sylvia
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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
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| Sylvia wrote: | | 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). |
Ah well, it was worth a thought
| Sylvia wrote: | | 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? |
Yes that would be fine, my recipe has 1 lemon in, lemons are good as they have a higher pectin content than other citrus fruit (apart from sevilles). Reducing the sugar content doesn't make it tart, but will allow you to taste the fruit better, and clementines being sweeter anyway . . . . . . I've just looked again at my recipe which has a combined weight of 2lb 12oz fruit and 3 lbs sugar, to make approx 5lbs marmalade, I would recommend you to reduce the sugar in that to 2 and a half lbs maximum, and I'd probably drop another 4oz.
Itsyray
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