Marmalade

 Way back in 2020, in the first winter of the pandemic when everything was locked down, and life was singularly depressing, I planted a blood orange tree.

For the first couple of years it did nothing much, but for the last two years it's produced a few decent oranges every year.

This winter it came good and produced a decent crop. 

Strangely the possums seemed to like them as well, so we had to mount a rescue operation and harvest them before they were decimated.

So, a few days ago we turned about half of them into marmalade, mixing them with calamansi's from the plant we have on the back deck.

They have produced a satisfyingly bitter traditional English style marmalade

as for the rest of the oranges - we sliced them up and dried them in a food dehydrator to add to cakes  and perhaps to soak in vodka further down the track for something truly decadent ...