Topic: What are you eating / What did you eat.

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Tea and a muffin.  Breakfast.

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Fresh cream scones with seville orange marmalade.  This batch of the marmalade was extra bitter.  What odd oranges they are:  bumpy skins and millions of seeds.  Nobody eats them right off the tree because they are basically inedible in their natural form.  They need this bizarre cooking and sugar addition.  I wonder if Seville Orange marmalade existed before Columbus "discovered" the Americas and sugar cane was imported into Europe.  I doubt it.  Seville was an important port, so the trees were perhaps imported for their flowers and foliage.  Certainly not for the fruit, initially.  I guess you can add honey, but I don't use that.  The oranges take days to prep and the marmalade varies from year to year, depending on the natural bitterness of the rinds.  This batch was one of the most bitter, but it's still pretty tasty.

Here:  https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/the-last-bitter-word-about-the-origins-of-seville-oranges-1.3953631