Satsuma Glut

[Badger's Mate Profile]

I suppose 'easy peeelers', apart from being a positive marketing term, allows for the sale of all manner of satsumas, clementines, mandarins, tangerines and hybrids between them. There's bound to be a variation in the ease of peeling and number of seeds. The flavour and sweetness appear to vary quite a bit too.

I don't make marmalade. We love it but get given plenty in exchange for pickles and jams we make with our own produce. However there are one or two I buy from time to time. Apart from the interestingly spiced ones from Hibiscus Lily https://hibiscuslily.co.uk/ there's usually a jar of the Tiptree Orange & Tangerine.

[aero280 Profile]

We usually buy a couple of bags of easy-peel clementines/satsumas on every Costco visit, and have a couple each with breakfast. Mostly they are free of pips, but one recently had so many that I counted them. 28!!

[Pepper Pig Profile]

If I remember correctly the term Easy Peelers (and other generic names) came in when my elder two were at Primary School and the law changed so that schools no longer had to legally provide hot school dinners for their pupils. This would have been end of the eighties. Suddenly all children were required to bring in a packed lunch or go home. Those on benefits had a packed lunch provided for them, and round here they were very poor. Easy Peelers were, as you say BM, a marketing ploy but designed to show us stupid parents which fruit the little darlings could manage.

[Lokelani Profile]

I love tangerines but they're so seasonal. The ones from Ocado haven't been too bad lately, but it's sad knowing there'll be months when they won't be worth buying.

If they're disappointing I tend to just halve & juice them. Liking the sound of others ideas though.

[chihuahua8 Profile]

I must be feeling very nostalgic - when I was a little girl and I'm talking just post war about 1946, the big treat at Christmas was the tangerine at the end of your Christmas stocking.
JeanT

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I'm pleased to say I've now got a couple of jars of rather delicious tasting marmalade! Thanks all.

I might order some more grotty easy peelers because the duck and chicken sounded good too

By the way, they weren't satsumas, they were mandarins.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

By the way, ... they were mandarins

Did you pick them up in Whitehall?

[Pampy Profile]

I must be feeling very nostalgic - when I was a little girl and I'm talking just post war about 1946, the big treat at Christmas was the tangerine at the end of your Christmas stocking.
JeanT

Oh yes - we had that too, along with a shiny red apple and a foil-wrapped chocolate coin. Even though we knew they'd be in the stocking, we still go terribly excited!

[Earthmaiden Profile]

By the way, ... they were mandarins

Did you pick them up in Whitehall?

I was making marmalade not mincemeat .

Yes, always a tangerine in the Christmas stocking. Didn't hear of satsumas, mandarins, clementines etc then.

[ZeroCook Profile]

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Your satsuma marmalade sound delicious EM. Tempted to make some myself now! Did you add anything for extra pectin or use as is?

Great idea for syrup, kdka. Peel too.

Satsumas, clementines, tangerines, mandarins - all types of mandarin oranges or crosses with mandarins - treated as a member of a distinct species of orange https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_orange - I always thought the names were interchangeable anyway. More or less. Mas o menos.

I have some Meyer lemons that need using and might appear on the overrated thread

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I think there are definitely differences in characteristics and flavour between satsumas, clementines etc but unless you have them all in front of you to compare its easy to think of them as interchangeable.

I loosely used this Epicurous recipe as a guideline https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.epicur ... c024e4/amp
I liked the sugar ratio. I didn't add the flavourings suggested but when I tasted it added just a little grated ginger and a tablespoon of rum which just added depth. The result seems very close to a nice Seville orange marmalade to me rather than the sweeter ones. I did use sugar with added pectin as I had some to use up.