Preservation - Two Ways of Making Marmalade
As a child, I remember going to the forest and to our garden with my family to pick various berries, and then sitting for hours next to my mother, watching, how she turned the sour black currant into something magical. Having grown up in the Soviet Union, preservation was always very important to my mother. To this day, I can still go to our basement and find hundreds of jars filled with a great selection of preserved food. This extends to many families throughout the world, due to the abundance of fruits during harvest time. It has been a pivotal question since the dawn of man, to somehow preserve the food one has. (Tannahill, 1973) It has been achieved through different means: early humans in colder climates stored their food in secret places (Tannahill, 1973), while in later times, drying meat also became a common practice (Ryslett, 2025). Preparing marmalade is a later discovery, requiring a sweet agent like sugar or honey to produce it, which was not readily available fo...