Scottish Marmalade?

**Bugbear** · 27th June 10, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by ali8780

oh, now you're just trying to make me jealous.

Don't make me look up what grows in your neck of the desert, Ali.

**piperdbh** · 27th June 10, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

A lot of times I like to just go out in the garden, and graze like a bug.

Ted,
Just exactly how does a bug graze?

**Bugbear** · 27th June 10, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Ted,
Just exactly how does a bug graze?

Usually with some sort of mandibles. Those pesky ants are always herding aphids around like cattle, so the analogy kind of fits...

**Bugbear** · 27th June 10, 11:27 PM

BBC - h2g2 - The Original Marmalade

They cite the Oxford English Dictionary, and trace the word back to Portuguese and French meaning quince conserve "marmelada." They also debunk and refute the myth that the word "marmalade" has anything to do with Mary Queen of Scots.

Please don't take my word for it, and look at the link.

In other news, I have several air layers of sour orange trees, now having been severed from their parent tree, adjusting to being trees on their own... and all over my house in plastic bag humidity chambers. There's some Flying Dragons too.

I've gotten two of them back out side in the shade so far, and they're doing fine.

**Lachlan09** · 28th June 10, 06:23 AM

I also used to love Rose's Lime Marmalade !

**Bugbear** · 2nd July 10, 02:29 PM

Oh, ya. I lived with my grandmother, next door, for several years. We reused all kinds of things. It would have been very much the way she grew up.

That Hoodia plant is a very weird looking plant, and it is supposed to make a large stinky, rotten meat, flower, it hasn't yet, that attracts flies to pollinate it. Thanks for the history, Mike. Botanical oriented history can be very interesting.