Spring Tincture - An Ode to Marmalade

Our tincture this Almanac is not in fact a tincture at all, but an ode to marmalade making as Winter wanes and we wait for Spring to flood in. 

Why? Quite apart from the pleasure of filled pots with their jewelled interiors and neatly scripted labels, nothing is quite so transporting on a grey and miserable day as the scent of citrus fruit pervading your entire space. Be immediately taken to Seville at Easter where the entire city bears the perfume of orange blossom. Like the scent of Philadelphus, the mock orange blossom? Have it in your house in January and February when you make marmalade.

A few Seville oranges, the bitter oranges for marmalade are still around or you may have presciently popped a few in your freezer. If not, ruby grapefruit or lemon marmalade are both sublime. We don’t supply a recipe but like Nigella’s and Good Food recipes, we use organic unwaxed fruit if we possibly can and always save jam jars and lids, crucially ready washed and ready to go. Enjoy!