Rose's Marmalade

Rose Gray, Co-Founder of The River Cafe 

For all of us who knew and worked with Rose, the sentence "What would Rose do?" is often in our thoughts and conversations.

Rose loved marmalade, so this month, as we do every year, we are making her favourite, Seville Orange.

Rose's recipe asks us to soak the orange in water for a few days to soften the peel, and then boil them whole until tender. The high sugar content of the marmalade balances the bitterness of the thinly sliced oranges.

She liked her marmalade to be thick - mostly fruit in a little jelly, rather than plenty of jelly with a little fruit.

It's these details we remember when we think about Rose, what she would say, what she would do, what she would cook.

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Rose's Seville Marmalade

Photography by Matthew Donaldson