M is for Marmalade

 Oh No! I was down to my last jar of marmalade! 

My every day breakfast is fruit, toast and marmalade and a big mug of coffee. I need marmalade! And I'm not buying more of the very expensive jars from the local small business - Swallowtail Preserves. Not since they started charging £4.50 for a small half-pound jar. I'd like to support them but they've priced themselves out of sensible reach.

There are some jars of home made Marrow/Apricot/Ginger jam in the cupboard, which is a bit like marmalade but only this one jar of Lemon Marmalade made from a tin of the Home Cook prepared lemons back in March.

Thank goodness there was a tin of the Home Cook ready prepared fruit in the cupboard although I thought it was lemon until I looked properly and found it was orange.

I added some whisky that had been in the cupboard for years and soon made a batch of 6 jars of Orange/whisky Marmalade.

Breakfast is all sorted for a while. I'll have to order online if I want a tin to make lemon marmalade next time - the only reason for missing there being a Lakeland shop in Ipswich. Actually, come to think of it I'm not even sure tins of the medium cut or thick cut prepared orange are available in the supermarkets now, might need to order both.

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