Does anyone know where I can get Seville Oranges? I have a Seville Marmalade recipe that I am itching to try, but have not had any luck in locating them. Thank you in advance!
WildSwede
Dec 12, 2006 04:27PM
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Aren't Seville oranges the same as navel oranges?
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nope, different fruit entirely. it's a bitter orange, like a bigarade (C. aurantium, if you care). i don't know anyone who grows them. best bet would be polito at the santa monica market.
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From Gourmet magazine:
Rising C Ranches sells California-grown Seville oranges for $2 a pound plus shipping (559-637-9546; ripetoyou.com).
The Polito Farms suggestion is also a good one -- I'd bet they know.
If none of those options work, you could always get the Ma Made brand of prepared (canned) Seville oranges and make marmalade of that (add your own sugar and water).
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As a Canadian, perhaps I can offer a bit of not very useful info. The best seville or marmalade oranges for decades have come from Phoenix where, as I understand it, they were picked from decorative wild orange trees along the city's boulevards. The joke was that only Canadians (with Scottish and British heritage) were foolish enough to pay good money for ugly, warty and inedible fruit. For years, as a columnist for The Toronto Star, I published annually my wife, Ayesha's recipe for orange marmalade. It was always a hit. Last year the Arizona oranges were pathetic - dry and small. Then, just when we'd given up hope and made do with them, the most fabulous marmalade oranges we've ever seen arrived from - wouldn't you know it - California. We're living in hopes they'll come again this January. Does anyone know where they come from?
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My favorite marmalade comes from Corti Brothers - easy to mail order - which is made from the produce of Sacramento street trees. It is amazingly good, and vintage-dated. I am currently enjoying the 1997.
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I was in Seville yesterday!! Kept making jokes about leaving Orange County and coming to Orange World.
Wish I could have brought some back for you!
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ok
you take your chances
the l a arborteum has a huge hedge of chinotto oranges loaded with fruit in season. go quietly. look around and swipe a few
you didn't hear it here.
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seeing above, there are also seville oranges used in landscaping at Scripps College.
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We are once again looking for Seville Oranges to make Marmalade. Does anyone know of new sources to mail order bitter oranges?
Thanks,
Ari
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one of the citrus growers from north san diego county at the wednesday farmers market has had them in the past.
please let us know if you can and check to find out when the growing season is. I think they fruit in the late spring and summer.
(again - you can always go to the chinotto grove - a hedge - at the la arboretum, take a purse [easier if you're a lady] and pick a bunch when no one's looking. I won't tell - the chinotto grove is near the bamboo forest)
see above for the lesser help given a while back.
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Rising C (ripetoyou.com) is still around; I got a case of Sevilles from them this year & am working my way through them. Best I've found online.
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I wish I could remember where I saw the Mamade Seville Orange Marmalade mix locally, I want to say it was at Bristol Farms but can't be certain since of course at the time I was like, oh make a note that these guys carry it and of course now I can't remember who it was. I haven't made it in years but when I did I got it at Williams Sonoma and it was always perfect, easy to make and a welcomed gift!
Anyway, you can find it currently at The Vermont Country Store
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/br...
Sometimes Amazon carries it but I just checked and they are out of it. You might also try the British tea room on 2nd Street in Santa Monica, they stock British items. As another note the Mamade folks make both a thick cut or thin cut Seville Orange marmalade mix as well as a Lemon marmalade mix. All very good and high quality! Good luck!
Cheers!
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Vermont Country website states that item is no longer available!
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moon ranch at the wednesday farmers market in santa monica has them.
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