Marmalade

An unfussy approach to the best marmalade orange in the world, the Seville orange. The flavor is bristling with all the bitterness and sweetness you want in a Seville orange marmalade. The splash of dark rum in Seville Orange Rum goes into the pot towards the end of the cooking process, giving warmth and brightening all the depths of this iconic sour orange.

Seville Orange Rum, this honey sweetened marmalade contains: Seville orange, honey, lemon juice, dark rum.

Tropicali! The combination of heady meyer lemons, lime, and vanilla bean creates this pineapple pina colada vibe loaded with thirst quenching fresh juice flavors. But don’t let the adjectives fool you, this one is also for marmalade traditionalists. The sweet-bitter waltz does happen!

Meyer lemon citrus shred and vanilla bean in a lime jelly.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, organic lime, meyer lemon, lemon juice, vanilla bean.

Back after another 2 year hiatus! It has gotten very tricky and expensive to source Bergamot oranges on the East Coast, but is it really marmalade season without a visit from these perfumed friends?

The wondrous Bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia) combined with honey and lemon juice to make a fragrant, heady marmalade. To say this marmalade packs an explosion of flavor is an understatement. If you love hearty orange marmalades or Earl Grey Tea, which draws its flavor from the Bergamot peel, you will love this flavor.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: Bergamot orange, honey, lemon juice.

Muddle up scoops chocolate and vanilla ice cream with this warm and round flavored Seville orange marmalade. The coffee beans, in a sachet, are added to the boiling marmalade in the final stages of cooking and removed when it's time to jar the marmalade. The dates are cut into small chunks, which offer a sweet balance to the zip of the bitter Seville orange rind. A customer favorite!

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, seville orange, organic navel orange, lemon juice, deglet dates, coffee beans, vanilla bean.

A popular marmalade among the citrus marmalade collection. It's full of lemon juice plumped organic mission fig pieces and the navel orange peel is unblanched so the flavor has enough heartiness to make orange marmalade fans happy.

This marmalade is rich and sweet from the figs and warm from the cracked green cardamom pods steeped into the marmalade throughout the cooking process.

Eat this with aged cheddars!

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, organic lemons, organic navel orange, organic mission & turkish figs, lemon juice, cardamom, (the existing label says this marmalade contains rum, but we stopped using rum in the recipe in 2016) . 

This flavor broke through in 2020 as our number one selling marmalade. Meyer lemons are mild and sweet compared to Eureka and Lisbon lemons. With less bitterness overpowering the flavor profile, the earl grey tea (bergamot orange infused black tea) can shine through.

We take organic earl grey tea and buzz it in the spice grinder before adding it straight into the finished marmalade where it gives a dappled color effect and slowly steeps the lemon marmalade with a distinct aromatic black tea flavor.

I love marmalade and toast and this flavor also shines with hard cheeses like a marmalades.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: meyer lemon, honey, lemon juice, earl grey tea

Chamomile and apricot? a classic combo! but chamomile & saffron!? This flavor idea got going because of a tea blend of chamomile & saffron that our vanilla bean supplier always sends with our spice orders.

With the quieter pace of winter production and the extraordinary “never gets old” lemon and orange kitchen-steam-baths of January and February preserves making, I’m almost always inspired during this time of year to construct a new marmalade flavors. I call them Wild Cards.

This 2023 Wild Card marmalade received a small makeover in 2024. The goal? More apricot flavor and an easier eating experience quicker, which meant bringing down the bitterness. We let go of the hybrid pounding and chip method and went all chip/shred and jelly.

Seville jelly, navel orange shred, sultanas and Royal Blenheim apricots plumped in lime and meyer lemon juice. Sevilles mean robust citrus flavor. Everything is combined with autumn honey, a big sachet of chamomile and a generous pinch of saffron.

This marmalade contains: honey, orange, lemon and lime juice, sultanas, dried apricot, chamomile, cinnamon, saffron.

V Smiley Preserves Cooks the Classics for Plain Goods, a fellow New England based brand that celebrates impeccable craftsmanship, purity of form, and nature’s ever-changing palette.

Sturdy, balanced citrus marmalade for toast and marmalade cake, marmalade cocktails and the best combo, aged cheddar and marmalade.

Ingredients: honey, lemon, orange, lemon juice, vanilla bean

Pear and quince pieces suspended in pear & orange jelly with strips of orange rind intermingled and honey candied gingery for warmth. A very mild marmalade with the spotlight on the pome fruits of pear and quince.

I always want to eat this with cheesecake! It’s also wonderful with cheddars.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: organic/VT pears, VT quince, honey, organic navel oranges, lemon juice, candied ginger (honey, organic ginger, water).

Nectarine and lemon jelly interspersed with lemon chips and nectarine chunks for texture. Curio Spice Co.’s Yuzu Rose Green Tea is ground and swirled into the jam as it finishes cooking.

Lemon always helps pop fruit flavors while nectarines provide sweetness and body. Together they lay the foundation for this flavor’s star ingredient, Curio Spice Co.’s Yuzu Rose Green Tea!

This was my first time working with green tea as an ingredient so we started by working through some questions on when to introduce the ingredient into the cooking process, in what form (ground or whole) and whether to steep it or physically mix it into the jam.

Marmalades, even super delicate ones like this flavor, pair well with hard, aged cheeses, but this flower and citrus-forward flavor will also delight an unctuous and soft triple cream.

This honey-sweetened marmalade contains: honey, nectarine, lemon, green tea, rose buds, yuzu zest, lemon zest, coriander, timut pepper

A mild citrus marmalade that brings together soft quince jelly with slivers of Meyer lemon fruit. A dash of rose water at the end of the cooking process heightens the rosiness of the quince. A beautiful garnet color, this marmalade sells quickly at markets.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, VT quince, Meyer lemons, lemon juice, rose petals/rosewater. 

Quince, apple, honey, vanilla bean, spices, brandy

Comfort + joy!

One of the most beautiful flavors made by V Smiley Preserves. This is the thing to eat with Sheep's cheese. A delicate quince jelly interspersed with pieces of honey poached quince pieces, finished with a light splash of grappa and an infusion of rose geranium from our farm. The preserve has a velvet, semi-firm set.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: quince, honey, lemon juice, rose geranium, grappa.

A savory marmalade of pears and lemon that plays with the traditional flavor pairing of pears and sage. The marmalade is cooked with a sachet of lavender flowers, crushed peppercorns and finished by steeping fresh sage leaves. 

This marmalade is fantastic with aged goat cheeses, Tomme, Parmesan, Pecorino.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, organic/VT IPM pears, organic lemons, organic sage, organic lavender, organic white peppercorn.

Equal parts showy and delicate, this marmalade is balanced enough to eat straight out of the jar, but also makes a ship-shape cooking companion (make a pan sauce for chicken or fish or use a blender to build a creme fraiche + marmalade salad dressing for bitter greens like escarole and raddichio), shake it into a gimlet or best of all, eat it with cheese and eat it with more cheese.

Pear Lime Marmalade pears beautifully with fresh and aged cheeses. Some favorites are Tomme, Pecorino or thinly sliced Parmigiano Reggiano, but it will be great with Chevre too.

This honey sweetened marmalade contains: organic bosc pears, honey, organic persian bearss limes, lemon juice, vanilla bean.

This flavor was developed in 2018 and went into production in 2019 once NY nectarines appeared and our lemongrass and bee balm were ready for harvest. Year by year, I’ve worked through the garden, creating flavors around my favorite flowers and ingredients growing at Lil To Do Farm.

This preserve is an amalgam. Where with some V Smiley Preserves you can taste all the ingredients in layers, this, like the Bosc Pear Bearss Lime Vanila Marmalade is a set piece, the grassiness of the lemongrass and the herbal sweetness of the bee balm flowers combine with sweet nectarine and tangy lemon to produce a flavor that screams CANDY.

The working elements are lemon shred and nectarine chunks in a nectarine lemon jelly, flecked with bee balm flowers and infused with lemongrass.

This preserve is a flavor bomb and would be wonderful with toast and a creamy cheese like Mt Alice from Von Trapp Farmstead.

The honey sweetened marmalade is made with: nectarine, honey, lemon, lemongrass, bee balm.