Last Thursday I made 7 or 8 jars of marmalade.I use a Delia Smith basic recipe which seems to be relatively fool-proof, although i do scrape a bit of extra pith in.I chop the oranges very carefully by hand as I don't personally like chunky stuff. The test for setting is not very reliable (cold plate and see if the jelly sets) but the more you make, the more instinctive it is, knowing when to take it off the boil. Anyway it bubbled away and the flat was filled with the most wonderful smell of oranges - (Liz says the only smell that comes vaguely near it is L'Occitaine's tangerine room fragrance,sorry about the ad!) We had bought the oranges from Pimlico market, beautiful shiny Seville ones, £1.50 for over a kilo. So, with the sugar, the whole cost of 8 pots of marmalade was about £2.20. So we made some more the next day---Liz says it is the best marmalade ever - so we have spent £4.80 and probably saved over £40 for our years supply of fantastic stuff-Result! Next stop, strawberry jam for our teatime sponge--- more of that later!!And the joy of looking at these jars, neatly labelled,filled with amber jelly and fine shreds of orange, topped with wax disc, is life-enhancing on a dull February day!