Fruit Preserves

The recipe for marmalade includes sliced or chopped fruit peel
simmered in sugar, fruit juice and water until soft; indeed marmalade
is sometimes described as jam with fruit peel ( although
manufacturers also produce peel - free marmalade ) . Marmalade is
often eaten on toast for breakfast.
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The Romans learned from the Greeks that quinces slowly
cooked with honey would "set" when cool ( though they did not know
about fruit pectin ) . Greek melimēlon or "honey fruit"—for most
quinces are too astringent to be used without honey, and in Greek
mēlon or "apple" stands for all globular fruits—was transformed into
"marmelo." A Roman cookbook attributed to Apicius gives a recipe
for preserving whole quinces, stems and leaves attached, in a bath of
honey diluted with defrutum—Roman marmalade . Preserves of
quince and lemon appear—along with rose, apple, plum and pear—in
the Book of ceremonies of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII
Porphyrogennetos , "a book that is not only a treatise on the etiquette
of imperial banquetting in the ninth century, but a catalogue of the
foods available and dishes made from them " .
Medieval quince preserves, which went by the French name
cotignac, produced in a clear version and a fruit pulp version, began
to lose their medieval seasoning of spices in the 16th century. In the
17th century La Varenne provided recipes for both thick and clear
cotignac .
The extension of "marmalade" in the English language to refer
to citrus fruits was made in the 17th century, when citrus first began
to be plentiful enough in England for the usage to become common.
In some continental Europe languages , a word sharing a root
with "marmalade" refers to all gelled fruit conserves, and those
derived from citrus fruits merit no special word of their own. Due to
British influence, however, only citrus products may be sold as
"marmalade" in the European Union (with certain exceptions , which
has led to considerable complaints from those countries .
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