Paddington Bear Inspired Recipe: Did Somebody Say Marmalade? Hello friends. To celebrate the launch of Paddington Bear coming to the big screen in November, 50 statues of the fictional bear are on the streets of London. Today I have a guest post from Borough Market’s with an ultimate marmalade sandwich recipe.
Paddington Bear Inspired Recipe: Did Somebody Say Marmalade?
Celebrating Paddington’s first glimpse of Borough Market. Paddington couldn’t fail to love this marmalade sandwich: Plain and simple, no fancy twists, but made with the finest ingredients a bear could wish for.
Paddington Bear-Inspired Recipe. Is it Marmalade, or Did Someone Say Marmalade?
Marmalade Recipe Ingredients:
1kg Seville oranges
1 Unwaxed lemon
1.75kg granulated sugar (no need for preserving sugar)
Paddington Bear Inspired Recipe Method:
Step 1: Firstly, wash the oranges and lemon well and then put them in your pan and cover with water. I weighed down the fruit with a small dish to stop it bobbing above the surface. Cover with a lid and then boil for 1-2 hours until the peel feels soft and can be easily pierced with a fork. Meanwhile enjoy the ambrosial citrus scent wafting around your kitchen.
Step 2: Remove the fruit from the water and allow to cool. Measure the liquid left in your pan, you will need about 1.25 litres. If you have too much you can reduce it by boiling, too little – just add a splash of water.
Step 3: Now for the fun, and many hands do make light work; it’s time to prepare the fruit. Quarter the oranges and lemon. Take a spoon and scrape the pith, flesh and seeds into a large sieve set over a bowl.
Step 4: Slice the peel into coarse or fine shreds, the choice is yours (it wasn’t mine as an impatient seven year old will always mean thick slices). Put the peel into the pan with the measured cooking water.
Paddington Bear Inspired Recipe: Did Somebody Say Marmalade?
Step 5: Take a rubber spatula and squash as much juice as you can from the pulp in the sieve and tip this into the marmalade pan. Put the remaining pips and pulp into a muslin square and tie up (or take the pop sock approach) and then dangle this down into your pan too. The pith and pips contain masses of pectin which will set the marmalade later.
Step 6: Bring the pan up to the boil and then remove your bag, or sock, and give it a squeeze to release as much of the valuable pectin as possible back into the marmalade.
Step 7: Tip in the sugar and place the pot on a low flame. Once the sugar has dissolved you can up the heat and bring the marmalade to a rolling boil. Watch it carefully, you don’t want it bubble over. Give it a stir and skim the froth from the surface from time to time (or you will have cloudy marmalade).
Step 8:
Now you’re on the home straight. Your marmalade will take about 25 – 45 minutes at a fast boil to reach setting consistency (there are so many variables – the heat, the width of your pan, the amount of pectin, so I can’t be precise). Test the setting consistency after 25 minutes by spooning some hot marmalade straight onto one of your plates from the freezer, allow it to cool for a couple of minutes. Now push the marmalade with your fingertip, if it’s ready it will form a wrinkly skin as you do so. If not, continue to boil and check at 5 minute intervals.
To Serve: Once ready leave the marmalade to cool for 15 minutes, skim off any last foam and ladle into the hot jars. Cover with waxed disks if using, and seal with lids or cellophane at once.
Borough Market’s Ultimate Marmalade sandwich Recipe:
Ingredients:
London bloomer, or other fabulous bread from Bread Ahead
Hand-churned, lightly salted Sussex butter from Hook & Son
Award winning chunky Seville orange marmalade from Jill’s Natural Preserves
Method:
Cut a couple of thick slices of bread and spread one very generously with butter.
Open up the marmalade jar and spoon (no paws thank you!) 3 or 4 dollops of the very finest homemade marmalade upon the butter.
Spread carefully.
Top with your second hunk of bread and, using every ounce of self-discipline that a small bear can muster, stop to cut your sandwich in half before devouring.
Now wash sticky whiskers and paws.
Paddington Bear Inspired Recipe: Did Somebody Say Marmalade? About this post. This is a guest post. No payment was received. Recipe and photo credit by Borough Market. So what do you think about this post? Do you fancy making some Paddington Bear Inspired Marmalade Or Sandwiches? Because I know I do now!
Was marmalade a favourite of Paddington Bear’s? “Paddington is well-known for his fondness of marmalade, which he especially enjoys in marmalade sandwiches. He keeps a jar of it in his suitcase at all times, and he always has a marmalade sandwich tucked under his hat ‘in case of eventualities.'”
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I love Paddington and hope the film is good!