Thursday Cottage of England makes two fantastic Orange Marmalades – traditional and blood orange. Their blood oranges come from the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily. The local growers claim Etna citrus is the best in the world. Citrus fruit with dark pigments is unusual, but is what the blood orange is famous for. The result is a richly flavored medium-cut crimson marmalade.
Thursday Cottage was started in 1963 in a cottage of the same name outside Spaxton, Somerset. They are now based at Trewlands Farm in Tiptree, Essex and still operate a small production unit where a variety of different preserves, curds and marmalades are made by hand. The ingredients, the open pan cooking and their products’ distinctive taste and character are little changed from when the company was based in the West Country. The recipes used by Thursday Cottage today are traditional ones which date back more than half a century. Simplicity and good taste are the watch words: simple honest ingredients cooked traditionally to make preserves with a really delicious fruity taste. All natural and still hand produced, these award-winning preserves definitely deserve pride of place at the kitchen table, whether it be breakfast or tea in the afternoon.
Varieties sold separately.