What is marmalade made out of?

Answer 1

I Think,I Just THINK it comes from the slovakian language and means butter bread

I Think,I Just THINK it comes from the slovakian language and means butter bread

Answer 2

Marmalade is a fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits, boiled with sugar and water. The benchmark citrus fruit for marmalade production in Britain is the "Seville orange" from Spain, Citrus aurantium var. aurantium, thus called because it was originally only grown in Seville in Spain; it is higher in pectin than sweet Oranges and therefore gives a good set.

Answer 3

The Latin word was Melimelum meaning 'sweet apple'. The Greek word Melimelon was derived from 'meli' meaning honey and melon 'apple'. In the 1400's the French word Marmelade came into use and in Portugal, Marmalade or Quince Jelly. The same word appeared in the English language in the 1480's, borrowed from the French. In the 17th Century it became known as a product made from citrus fruits. Keillers of Dundee were said to have invented an orange marmalade 1797, but this may not necessarily be true as there are other references as early as 1777. In Spanish Mermelada means jam. The flavour, as orange for example, is Mermelada de naranja. Because of the British influence, only ciitrus products may be sold as marmalade.

Answer 4

Marmalade appeared in the English language in 1480 from the French Marmelade which came from the Portugese Marmelada. The root of this Portugese word is Marmelo which is a preserve made from quinces. Marmelo derived from a Latin word Marimelum and this in turn comes from the Greek word Melimelon. This means Honey Apple. Marmalade, in the English language came to mean a preserve made from oranges. In continental Europe the word refers to any gelled fruit conserve

Answer 5

It comes from the Portuguese word marmelada, a jam or preserve of quince.

Answer 6

Marmalade is made from the rind of citrus fruits. There is orange, lemon, and lime marmalade. You could probably make grapefruit marmalade, too.

Answer 7

Marmalade originated in Austrailia when prisoners from Britian found that underneath the bark of vaarious trees a sappy jelly was there a could be used as a replacement for butter or jam.

Answer 8

It's Portuguese for 'orange jam'