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.
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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I’ve just been to look on Amazon to see what Home Cook ready marmalade is. The price of makes 5 pound a jar sound good from Swallow preserves as you need a tin of home cook plus sugar.
ReplyDeleteAmazon are expensive but don't think that it would come to £54 which is what the equivalent would be to buy from Swallowtail!!
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ReplyDeleteI buy Robertson’s MaMade in Tesco for £2.45 a tin, it’s not always available so buy several tins when I see it. Was thinking of making Lime Marmalade from scratch in January, have you ever made it? Sandra.
ReplyDeleteI'll be looking to see which supermarkets still have the tins
DeleteIve occasionally made a sort of dark marmalade substituting some dark brown sugar for some of the white.
ReplyDeleteThe basic cost of everything is on the up and while larger companies and supermarkets might temporarily be able to absorb some, but not all, increases in costs. the local suppliers and manufacturers cannot afford to do so, and consequently they have to put up their costs. Unfortunately, the knock on effect is that people shift back to cheaper stuff and in a very short time we start to lose all our local businesses and the supermarkets win again. Coming from such a community, I will always do my best to continue to support local traders and manufacturers before lining the pockets of the already rich enough fat cats of industry.
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