Marmalade oranges

I won first prize for my St Clement's marmalafe once! Might have made more this year but DH was given 4 jars of marmalade for Christmas.

Interesting replies, thanks to all. I will start hunting around tomorrow ?

I used to make a lovely marmalade - but not from Seville oranges as always found that a bit too bitter for our family. Instead I followed a 3 fruits recipe even amounts of lemon, ordinary oranges and grapefruit. It always made an interesting yet 'grown-up' flavoured marmalade.

I once brought home a bag of Seville oranges and my friend did the honours of making the marmalade. I just love going through all the orange and lemon groves in Spain there were also oranges crossed with grapefruit trees too.

I was on holiday in Seville one Feb half term and all the orange trees in the town squares were being stripped of their fruit!

I remember mum making marmalade and it was not long after Christmas when the big pot used to surface along with a row of washed jampots on the pantry shelf.
Just delicious with a chunk of home made bread, it was a meal on its own.

Prior to that I can remember an uncle who was a steward on the White Star Line ( as it used to be known ) who used to supply us with large tins of marmalade ( USA ) just after the war, amongst other food products. Good stuff.

We bought two lots in cardboard boxes from Waitrose last week. DH made marmalade with one box and the other's in the freezer.

I think they are in the shops in cardboard boxes.
£2.79 a kilo on Ocado!

My mil used to make the best marmalade I've ever tasted and she used those huge tubs of orange ?? you buy in the supermarket especially for marmalade making . So it's something to fall back on it you have missed the fresh Seville oranges

And to answer the question - the Seville oranges are usually from about 6th January to 6th February. The early ones tend to be nicer than the later ones.

I was just about to start a thread wondering how many people have made their marmalade this year! I've just finished - about 90 pots, mostly for WI and various fetes over the year - so no you haven't. But I have noticed that all my usual suppliers, bar one, have very small, light oranges this year. Only our farm shop have "proper", fat, heavy big oranges.

Bought about 3 kilos from our local farm shop last week and have frozen them to use later - they seem quite small this year, but look good. Haven't bought shop marmalade for many years!

Got some today from Sainsbury’s. Double the price of the ones we bought in a street market. Home made spoils you for shop bought IMO.

We got some last week from the greengrocer and saw some in Morrisons on Tuesday. (We are in Manchester)

I haven't seen any around here yet either - I'm trying to remember when I managed to get some last year.