Mr Heinzie's Marmalade

I am on a roll with the bread. I had run out of Italian 00 flour so I thought I would try plain bread flour.Also I remembered how nice the rye bread that I made inspired by Asha of Foodies Hope

So I substituted 1 ½ cups of the plain flour with light rye flour.
Well this was excellent.
Our daughter Katie previously pregnant had not of course eaten any smoked salmon for 9 months.
So I made a little rescue package for her.
2 slices of fresh homemade rye bread, a little cream cheese and a little lemon wedge to squeeze over the salmon.
She was thrilled.

So now it is time to harvest my Seville Orange tree.
This might not seem a lot to most people but this is a first for me.
So from thisTo this

I had a kilo of oranges from my Seville Orange Tree. The tree was given to us when we moved into this house 15 years ago by John Hughes Interior Designer Extraordinaire
He has given us the most amazing design advice over the years.

This is the first year that I got any fruit of note so it is Marmalade time.

My friend Mr Heinz

is a bit of a whiz with the preserves so I emailed for advice and this is what I got.

Hi Ms Gilli

Ms Mary tells me you need the Seville Orange Marmalade recipe. so here goes:
Now I got some of the old cooking books

Scrub the skin and place the fruit whole in the pan, just cover it with water

Cook until fruit is soft, remove fruit and save the remaining water
unless you have asbestos hands throw the fruit into sink of cold water

Cut fruit in half, using kitchen tongs, pull out the pith and remove pips,
Save pith-n-pips in a pot

Toss remaining fruit halves into blender, pulse until skin is an acceptable size,
scrape back into the pan

When all the fruit is processed weigh the result,
Very handy to know the weight of the pan before you start.
But you know that…just checking.

Start heating the Pulp and juice then stir in the same weight of white sugar

Remember the pith-n-pips, good, now add about a cup of water
(I used the liquor from boiling the fruit) and bring to boil.
add juice of 2 lemons and boil rest of lemon with pith-n-pips,
after about 1 minute of boiling strain off the liquid into the pan.

Now boil until setting point. (it seemed to take about 1 hour)

Immerse screw-top jars in sink of hot tap water (I heated them in the oven at 130C)

Fill each jar to the brim and screw lid on firmly.

Enjoy.........Mr Heinz

I checked on a couple of very old cook books and this method is quicker and probably easier.

Thank you Mr Heinz
Breakfast Marmalade and Homemade Rye Bread

Good work!!!