We can all attest to the fact that Dad's marmalade was the very best we have ever tasted. It's true that Mom was the excellent cook. But Dad loved making onion butter and Gentlemen's relish and mayonaises and marmalade. He was really good at making condiments. He gave us all pots of this marmalade for the conoisseur and designed the labels. Granny and Mom carrying baskets like peasant women next to the cumquat tree in the Garden. Making the best marmalade with the least fuss the Ouma Smuts Cookery Book way Cumquats From Giddygirlie Unless you are quite old (and white or coloured) or your grandma left you a copy, you may not know this treasured old collection of South African 1940s wartime and postwar recipes and household hints, gathered in the name of General Smuts’ wife by Mrs Roy Hendry. Much of it is social history, but there are great recipes. Notably, there are several for different types of marmalade, which involve 12-24 hours of alternate soaking and boiling.
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