Blood Orange Marmalade
Our fine cut blood orange marmalade is made with organic oranges from Sicily. It is cooked gently to preserve the fresh sweet orange flavour and blood red flesh of the fruits.
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£2.25
Blood Orange Marmalade
There’s not many foods more quintessentially British than marmalade. Expect, of course, that Blood Oranges – or any other marmalade fruits – don’t grow in the UK.
Fortunately, when they’re picked from the sunny groves of Sicily, organic Blood Orange are so acidic that they don’t need freezing, chilling or air-freighting.
While the fruit isn’t British, the expertise and craftsmanship is. Like our preserves, honey and lemon curd, our marmalades are made by our jam makers, Crabtree & Evelyn. Down in Somerset, passed the Quantock Hills, nestles their jam factory – a glorious place thick with the aroma of sticky, juicy fruits.
Don’t be put off by the name factory – most of what goes on here involves traditional skills and a lot of hard-work done by hand. When they’re making our Blood Orange marmalade they check all the cut oranges for blemishes by eye, before stirring the boiling fruit and sugar mixture by hand with huge paddles.
The marmalade is made in traditional copper-bottomed boiling pans, which give a flavour that no industrial method of production can match. It’s hot and tiring work that still requires great finesse and skill if you’re to get the marmalade made without reducing the fruit to a pulp.
After boiling, our marmalade makers test the acidity of the fruit and then check how well the sugar has been absorbed using a refractometer (we’re not making this up, there really is such a thing). Then it’s piped (carefully) at a sweltering 88 degrees Celsius to the bottling area where sterilized jars await it.
It’s what toast was invented for.
