The most
elusive and desirable of
marmalades,
Wilkin & Sons' thick-cut
'Tawny' Marmalade is produced in (or at least marketed from)
Tiptree,
England.
Tiptree is located in a place called
Essex, formerly inhabited by the
East Saxons or by another
tribe of the same name.
This
marmalade is notable for its warm, murky flavor, its dark color, and for the nearly-appropriate use of
scare quotes in its name. It is distinct from the
jelly sold in supermarkets as "
marmalade": It is much less sweet, and its makers
quaintly flavor it with
oranges instead of
synthetic citric acid and
Red Dye Number 4.
The list of ingredients is as follows: "
Sugar,
Oranges". It contains no
fat, no
sodium, no
protein, and in fact no useful
nutrients of any description. We compensate for the shameful absence of
fat and
sodium by first buttering our muffin; the lack of
protein is
irrelevant to our purposes.
Tawny Marmalade is also the name of a
Scottish porn star whose work we very much admire.