Travel with Angela Lansbury: After Paddington Bear, Where Next For Marmalade? Follow Queen Elizabeth's footstep's to Wilkinson's Tiptree Museum for a taste

What is marmalade? A jam made from oranges, sharp oranges, not only sugar, so they have a bitter bite to wake you up at breakfast time.

After the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth was videoed sharing a marmalade sandwich with Paddington bear, where can you buy marmalade?

In central London in Fortnum's department store. But actually, in any supermarket.

Brands include, Mark's, Robertsons, and more.

M & S sells marmalade fine cut, medium cut, coarse cut, and with ginger.

We look for thick cut marmalade.

Many other brands and variations exist.

Rose's

Lemon & Lime
Lime
Lemon
Grapefruit
Orange
Ginger

Her majesty The Queen visited the Tiptree jam factory in 2010.

If you are in London, take a trip to the Tiptree museum in Essex. Entry is free. You can watch a film and see the factory. It take fifteen minutes to forty five minutes for your visit.

You can also visit their tea rooms. They make chocolate spread, salted caramel. And their website has recipes for all meals of the day and cocktails. Make sure to get there early. They museum and cafe cum shop keep factory hours. They close at 4.30 in winter and 5 in summer.

They also serve and sell quince or damson preserves, honey, alcohol, and Christmas puddings!

It starts with picking fruit.

Tiptree tea.

Tiptree hamper.

DIY Marmalade

If you want to make marmalade, you need Seville oranges from Spain which are sold in England in early Spring. To make marmalade you want fruit which does not have wax or insect repellent, on the skin, so look for oranges which say they are suitable for making marmalade, or treat them suitably.

We made marmalade in Singapore from little round orange fruit which look like oranges but a gardening centre told us they were limes. When we were short of fruit, we added an ordinary orange to increase volume and that worked out just fine.

Useful Websites

For pictures of the queen's visit to the jam factory:

https://www.tiptree.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Food_museums_in_the_United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkin_%26_Sons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiller%27s_marmalade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Marmalade

https://www.britishonlinesupermarket.com/marks-spencer/marks-spencer-jams-spreads/m-s-marmalade.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%27s_(marmalade)

You tube demo of making marmalade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTfp3HevfmE

https://www.tiptree.com/tiptree-jam-museum