In february of 2011 the matriach of our small clan crossed over the rainbow bridge; a lingering flu one night unexpected changed all out lives; any death is a shock, the ones you least expect are abrupt. I had only known here since we were kids, ourt kids of course knew her all their lives. This is perhaver what doomscrolling was meant for as my memory of that day was little else for al of us.
hours turn to days and eventually the great outdoors calls - we go outside, it's time to go to the grocety store and on a whim or maybe because they look weird we picked up 8 seville oranges. Thee are a rare treat, they are about the ugliest fruit you've ever seen, wrinky and bumpy and hrdly rounsd with a think skin. Inside there is fruit and it looks like the orange you're used to untikl you bit into it, it's is utterly devoid of sugar anhd makes up for it by havibng extra stionr and bitter tasting fruit and peel. Also known at the bitter orange or sour orange what it lacks in sweetness it makes up for with deep and intense orange flavor. The is the proper orange to make marmalade from. Prior to the rabid and rapid adoption or marmalade by the scots - where it started and by tyhe rest of the UK and eventully thew world is more concidenc e than design. AQs the story goes a Mr Robinson had contracted for a shipment of oranmges at a very good price - from seveille - and when they shoped up in SDcotland it was clear there wwere not eating oranges from seviole but seviolle oranges, the knobby sour fcruit used mosrtly to marinadfe meat. Mt Robinson feeling swindled was rterady to write this off as a bad invenstment, but his good lade having more sense than tyhat figures there musyt be something you can do with a ship load od inedible oranmges. So she made jam, literaly byu the boatload. Literally. From this we get Robersons seville oranmge marmalade, better in the white glass jar - formerly a white ceramic crock altghough tmost is sold in glass jars today.