{"id":1749,"date":"2005-10-22T22:29:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1749.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"howto-keep-the-mould-from-your-marmalade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/10\/22\/howto-keep-the-mould-from-your-marmalade\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO: Keep the mould from your marmalade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(I owe <a href=\"http:\/\/littlejohngallery.com\/\">Kenny Harris<\/a> big for this one.)<\/p>\n<p>I love marmalade, but I love it in phases:  I&#8217;ll go for months without being the right mood for it, and then BAM I&#8217;ll have a late-evening craving for a slice of toast, dripping in butter and smothered in Chivers Olde English.  Until last year, I&#8217;d go to the cupboard, grab the aged jar from behind the little-used condiments, only to have my desires thwarted by layers of semi-sentient fungus.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there is a very simple way of making your marmalade last longer:  don&#8217;t let it come into contact with any oily substance, i.e. <em>butter<\/em> (or margarine).  I have no idea why this works; I&#8217;m just delighted it does.  Use a separate knife or spoon to extract your marmalade instead of the one you buttered your toast with, and your marmalade will stay mould-free for months.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this works the same for jam.  Jam doesn&#8217;t last long enough in our household to provide an adequate experimental baseline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I owe Kenny Harris big for this one.) I love marmalade, but I love it in phases: I&#8217;ll go for months without being the right mood for it, and then BAM I&#8217;ll have a late-evening craving for a slice of toast, dripping in butter and smothered in Chivers Olde English. Until last year, I&#8217;d go &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/10\/22\/howto-keep-the-mould-from-your-marmalade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOWTO: Keep the mould from your marmalade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food_and_drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}