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It ain't Marmalade --- but since we seem to have got on to "Peeling" --- I remember in Mauritius--- Street Traders Selling Peeled Pineapple (All allitteration !) carved in wonderful ways ---- delicious !

MKM wrote:Perhaps I need a marmalade cutter to shred my peel more finely - such as http://www.leevalley.com/newsletters/Ga ... atisit.htm (but it looks like hard work).

I notice that despite its name that is an American site!

jhopgood wrote: Basically they put the orange between a small clamp and a spindle, with the clamp end attached to a handle and gear so that the orange can be rotated. There is a small cutter which is set to cut off the peel but not the pith. (For the engineers, it is a small lathe for oranges).
If you want orange juice, peel orange on "lathe", cut top off, squeeze orange and suck out juice.
Very simple, but so far, not available in the developed world, as far as I know.

sold in the UK for peeling apples; I think that Lakeland sell them and ISTR seeing them in nsome of the major stores (Debenhams, H of Fraser type). I'm not sure how / if you can adjust them to take the skin and not pith .....

edit; checked today and no longer sold at Lakeland. It just might be that the season is wrong. There is a good Dutch company with branches elsewhere in W Europe called "Casa" which ISTR sold them

Today, I select the fruit for my first batch. The local sharpening man has honed my little potential-peel-slicing knife to such a lethal sharpness that he taped over the blade lest I do myself, or others, fatal damage on the way home!

I've found a recipe online for a marmalade of sweet orange, ruby grapefruit and lemon! Opposite the recipe is one of those Google ads -

" Colon cleanser kit. Gently removes the toxins in your body. View photos".

Hmm... to whom shall I give a jar of this marmalade?

3 pages on the (not inconsiderable) delights of marmalade. Who'd have thought...? Still, at least it hasn't appeared on Big Brother. Mind you, a jar of marmalade probably has more personality and at least as much intelligence as most contestants.