Donate to Remove ads

Got a credit card? use our Credit Card & Finance Calculators

Thanks to Bhoddhisatva,scotia,Anonymous,Cornytiv34,Anonymous, for Donating to support the site

Vintage marmalade

incorporating Recipes and Cooking
tsr2
2 Lemon pips
Posts: 227
Joined: June 20th, 2017, 8:30 am
Has thanked: 294 times
Been thanked: 62 times

Vintage marmalade

#323658

Postby tsr2 » July 4th, 2020, 8:31 am

I went out to get a replacement jar of marmalade and I thought I'd bring in a spare as well. The first jar was labelled 2018. The second was labelled 2010. I think it's fair to call that vintage.

I put the 2018 away and grabbed another jar of 2010.

bungeejumper
Lemon Half
Posts: 8021
Joined: November 8th, 2016, 2:30 pm
Has thanked: 2831 times
Been thanked: 3921 times

Re: Vintage marmalade

#323685

Postby bungeejumper » July 4th, 2020, 11:46 am

I'd have done the same. If it hadn't turned blue with mould in the first couple of years (and possibly even if it had), it was good for the duration. Scrape off the furry bits and add a little brandy for maximum effect.

BJ

O/T: Great stuff, glass. I've told this story before, so apologies, but when I was studying in Berlin in the early 1970s, my elderly neighbour had a row of bottled sausages on her shelf. With swastikas on the labels..... :shock: The last of her government food rations from 1945, and still edible after nearly 30 years. As she proved every Christmas when she opened a jar. The building we both lived in had been bombed half to pieces when the Allies finally moved in, but Hitler's sausages had been made of tougher stuff.

BJ

tsr2
2 Lemon pips
Posts: 227
Joined: June 20th, 2017, 8:30 am
Has thanked: 294 times
Been thanked: 62 times

Re: Vintage marmalade

#323780

Postby tsr2 » July 4th, 2020, 7:54 pm

bungeejumper wrote:I'd have done the same. If it hadn't turned blue with mould in the first couple of years (and possibly even if it had), it was good for the duration. Scrape off the furry bits and add a little brandy for maximum effect.

BJ


I can't say I've ever seen my wife's marmalade go blue. I haven't opened these yet, but I imagine they will be in pretty good condition. Maybe a bit of crystallisation, but I would be really surprised to see mould.

88V8
Lemon Half
Posts: 5743
Joined: November 4th, 2016, 11:22 am
Has thanked: 4068 times
Been thanked: 2553 times

Re: Vintage marmalade

#323787

Postby 88V8 » July 4th, 2020, 8:27 pm

Yes, it's odd, jam sometimes goes a little mouidy but never OH's marmalade.

V8

Mike4
Lemon Half
Posts: 7039
Joined: November 24th, 2016, 3:29 am
Has thanked: 1632 times
Been thanked: 3761 times

Re: Vintage marmalade

#323801

Postby Mike4 » July 4th, 2020, 10:16 pm

88V8 wrote:Yes, it's odd, jam sometimes goes a little mouidy but never OH's marmalade.

V8

The thing that troubles me is that fruit is preserved with sugar in order to prevent it going mouldy, and fruit so preserved is called 'jam'.

So why does jam go mouldy?

tsr2
2 Lemon pips
Posts: 227
Joined: June 20th, 2017, 8:30 am
Has thanked: 294 times
Been thanked: 62 times

Re: Vintage marmalade

#323835

Postby tsr2 » July 5th, 2020, 10:15 am

tsr2 wrote:I went out to get a replacement jar of marmalade and I thought I'd bring in a spare as well. The first jar was labelled 2018. The second was labelled 2010. I think it's fair to call that vintage.

I had another look today. I haven't inventoried it properly, but most of it is either unlabelled or from 2018. I did find a 2008, a 2009 and another 2010.

johnstevens77
Lemon Slice
Posts: 438
Joined: November 9th, 2016, 6:14 pm
Has thanked: 421 times
Been thanked: 147 times

Re: Vintage marmalade

#323941

Postby johnstevens77 » July 5th, 2020, 9:04 pm

Mike4 wrote:
88V8 wrote:Yes, it's odd, jam sometimes goes a little mouidy but never OH's marmalade.

V8

The thing that troubles me is that fruit is preserved with sugar in order to prevent it going mouldy, and fruit so preserved is called 'jam'.

So why does jam go mouldy?


Possibly because it has been exposed to the air? In any case, the underlying jam is perfectly ok to eat, I wouldn't throw it out.

john


Return to “Food”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests