Made some Marmalade!

Its amazing what a spell of bad weather will bring on and in my case this weekend, whilst watching with glee, the melting of the wretched white stuff, I came upon a bag of summer in the form of a netted bag of Seville Oranges.

Now normally I would not have given the bag a moments thought but next to it (product placement in a huge vulgar fashion) were boxes of Preserving sugar......and my mind said "Ooh - Lets Make Marmalade!"

I have never made marmalade before but have watched my Mum over many years creating slightly different variations of what to place on my toast, so I thought, lets have a go.

Trusty Delia's Complete Cookery Course came out from her hiding place in the cupboard and the session began.  It was very therapeutic cutting up the oranges, wiping my smarting eyes when a few became over excited and squirted juice into my retina, but within minutes of the boiling process, my house became infused with a smell of hope.....sunshine and warmth.

Note for next-time - I will remove all the pips like Delia suggested before getting to the stage of testing on a saucer.

After sterilising some old jars (Yes, it is worth keeping some back instead of recycling, but maybe not Pickle Onion ones), I felt rather satisfied with a few hours work - see below for evidence.

Tastes good too according to my highly critical testers.