If I had a glut… and a little time on my hands… I would slice the top off and take out the inside, like eating a soft-boiled egg… put all the flesh into a plastic tub and freeze it… taking enough out as and when I wanted to…
just a thought…
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Any advice where I can buy Seville oranges in Charente?
Marmalade season is here and I found my Jelly pan:relaxed:
Is there a BioCoop? That’s where I’ve found some.
Biocoop or Grand Frais or La Vie Claire. Ask for oranges amères.
Oh and sometimes you get blokes who come up from Spain in a van and sell them on the side of the road, also sweet oranges, juicing oranges lemons and sometimes tangerines.
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Thanks for the pointers. Will try and find these stores in nearby towns.
Every January I look out for oranges amères, not for marmelade (generous friends give us plenty of that) but for cooking mainly with chicken and duck. Because the season is so short, I buy what I’ll need for the year, cut each orange into six segments and freeze them. Have been doing this for nearly forty years so it’s well tried and tested.
Posted just now because I bought some this morning.
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I bought a bag of Portugese naval desert oranges in Lidl the other day, they are the best I have had for many a long time unlike recent purchases I had to bin because they had no juice and were hard and dry - local and spanish.
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Their reputation goes before them, in Classical Arabic an orange is called a ‘burtuqāl’ 
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Most years I buy Corsican clementines at Christmas and turn them into Christmas Marmalade… this has proved a hit with friends and family.
I think I’m missing something. I thought burtugāl was the generalised middle Eastern word for ‘orange’? (cf Turkish ‘portakal’)
Oh, hang on … Now I get it! Thanks @vero
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Corse cut, I presume 
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