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Oddly, Polaner's fancy orange marmalade is cheaper than Stop & Shop's own.
And S&S's lasagne noodles are the cheapest anywhere I've found.
Wonder if the Woburn store has the same prices as the Watertown one?

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[tpau]

mmm, marmelade.
see, fruit is cheap, chemicals are expencive...

Polaner's is only slightly superior

[(Anonymous)]

As a devoted marmalade fanatic, I have to say that Polaner's is only slightly superior to S&S's own. Both are American-style: medium shred, corn-syrupy, light and liquid.
For cooking, this is just peachy; I do have a preference for a more European marmalade for my own toast. These are Austrian and South African varieties made with sugar, large, thick shreds, very dense and dark, and ranging from distinctly bitter to just-sweet.

-Fu

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[tpau]

well, i grew up with the word marmelade meaning thick translucent bars of sweet stuff covered in granulated sugar so they don't stick to eachother. mostly they were lemeon or orange flavor. i ahve failed to find anythign remotely liek that in this country. the Austrian concept of marmelade is absolutly to die for though :)

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[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Oooh, these European kinds sound like just what I should have been seeking out. I wanted the least-sweet kind I could get (as I recall, the recipe in the original calls for slices of Seville orange, which are quite sharp). I suppose they're a Cardullo's sort of splurge?

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[tpau]

ay reason we are not jsut using oranges? or are they too expencive due to beign the worng season for them?

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[msmemory.livejournal.com]

"Old Carolingian tradition."

What I am trying for are "Anonymous Apple pies" from the Old Days of the barony, and those used marmalade.

The story: Way back in the mists of time, there was a court of love held, and the accused was an anonymous apple pie, which the ladies of the barony contended had stolen the gentlemen's attention away from them :)

Someday after Marian gives me the promised copy of the original recipe, I will try reconstructing the pies from first principles.

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[tpau]

*rofl* that's funny

i am but an egg, i was not aroudn back then. must have been a very good pie though, to be better hten all those ladies... :)

Re: Polaner's is only slightly superior

[(Anonymous)]

No, Stop & Shop carries them, but they're more expensive. The "British import" aisle typically carries a few.