Seville Season
african vanielje on Jan 11 2008 at 1:00 pm | Filed under: Fruit, breakfast, preserves, seasonal cooking
Now that I am actively trying to eat breakfast in the morning I am forcibly reminded that January and February is Seville Orange Season. It may be an English thing, but no marmalade is quite the same as that lovingly made from these delicious Spanish Oranges. They have just the right level of tanginess without being sour, and they are not too sweet, anathema to marmaladers.
The season is short so go out and get your sevilles and get cracking. The marmalade itself is easy to make and a recipe follows. I will be making double this year as I ran out by summer last year. No make that triple, as I have an order for a whole batch from a friend I gifted with a bottle last year.
Paddington Bear knew what he was doing when he refused to travel without a bottle of marmalade as no breakfast (not even a Full English) is quite so quintessentially English as Coffee and Marmalade Toast.
The recipe for Seville Orange Marmalade can be found in the Vanilla Kitchen Cook Book
“Bad girl, bad gir!l” Talking to myself, as last week I used a jar of Ma Made the ready prep’d seville oranges to make some orange and ginger marmalade. That was our Galactic Ginger Jam. Seriously losing the plot!
Those are lovely big slices of peel - delicious!
Amanda, that sounds gorgeous, why is that bad?
I love marmalade and Seville Orange best of all. It’s just so damn hard to find in Germany (though we can occasionally find Koo Orange Marmalade which we fall upon as if it were manna). And the breakfast you describe is my weekend treat breakfast: coffee and toast with marmalade. Delicious.
Love orange marmalade! Thanks for the recipe
I’m a huge marmalade fan too and I just wish we had Seville oranges here in SA - you don’t know anywhere that grows them here do you? I’ve developed a mixed citrus marmalade that gets the right zing without Sevilles (using grapefruit, lemon, lime to counteract the sweetness of the eating oranges) but it would be great to make a real Seville orange marmalade for once. I love thick chunks of peel too.
You’re right, it is good but just felt bad when I saw you’d done from scratch. That’s the thing about blogging, sometimes feel like everything should be from scratch when in actual fact I love the odd cheat (short cut).
You must have a huge collection of crockery - love those cups too!
So satisfying, isn’t it? Yours looks gorgeous!
I love all your photos and interesting “props” with your own collections of dishes, etc. You always make the simplest of things look mouthwatering!
Charlotte, I’d forgotten all about Koo. There is definitley something about the tastes of childhood that stick. My mom, the gourmet, loves cream soda. Yes the bright green one!
Maryann, hope it turns out well!
Kit, I’ve never found it in SA, so well done for adapting.
Amanda, sometimes it’s just good to watch other people do it from scratch. I never buy a whole set of anything. I often buy things in fours, I’m not sure why as I have six dining chairs, but I always mix and match. Low boredom threshhold I guess. The coffee cups were a birthday present from my daughter and husband.
Thanks Ann, do you make your own too?
Thanks Valli, I always thought it would be nice to be a food stylist until I found out they had to stuff, varnish, paint etc. and a lot of the end result is not edible. That put me off!
The older I get the more I like simple unpretentious - food and pics. Although that may just be me making shortcuts for my bad photography. ‘Oh yeah! I meant it to look like that’.
I leave that jam for my mom to make. I know I am biased by saying this but hers is truly magnificient and turned many orange marmelade haters to aficionados. Yours is like liquid amber, gorgeous!
It is eigth in the morning here and I have my coffee, but now I’m also craving a toastie with marmelade!
ronell
Once again I have obviously been channeling you. I made some for the very first time last week.
I love making jam……..but yours look so gorgeous indeed!
Tartelette, I would be surprised if you ever found the time to make jam in between all your delicious pastries and cakes. Its good to know you have a premium source.
Ronell, I saw some Pomelos in the supermarket the other day and was tempted to try a marmalade with them. Maybe I’ll have another look this week.
Ann, I often find the same thing. I’ll open the latest food magazine to a picture of something I made and served a fortnight before. My mother is amazingly frequently about 6 months ahead of any new trend. Call it cosmic consciousness. If it’s out there , it’s out there and we have access to it, whether we know it or not. Hope you enjoy your marmalade.
Yum! I’ll be right over.
I was always rather fond of Paddington, partly because of his good taste.
The marmelade makes me hungry. Great job!